You're not going to see big budget promotion for this movie. In fact, you're going to have make an effort to find a theatre where this movie is being shown.

Writer, producer, director Emilio Estevez has made a real gem of a film.  Let's start with the story, the son of the lead character Tom Avery, dies as he begins the pilgrimage of The Way of Saint James (El Camino de Santiago) across the north of Spain. Tom, a conservative opthamologist played by Martin Sheen, travels to France and recovers his son's body and plans to return with his son's remains to California. He spends his first night after identifying his son's body looking through his son's possessions, and decides to cremate Daniel's remains and make the pilgrimage himself with Daniel's remains.

Tom encounters other "pellegrinos" on his journey. Tom's story, and the other's stories make the journey the story. You know where they are headed. But it is what you experience on the camino which makes this such an engaging and entertaining movie. 

Great cinemaphotography, crisp dialogue and excellent casting. While you probably never heard of Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, and Yorick van Wageningen, you'll be looking for their other work on the internet movie database.

While Emilo Estevez's brother seems to be the center of attention these, days, invest two hours and see the more talented brother's work: this movie.