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  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary The Way We Get By is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story ...

Directed By: Aron Gaudet

Written By: Gita Pullapilly, Aron Gaudet

  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2009
  • Unrated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 24 m

The Way We Get By

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Summary The Way We Get By is a deeply moving film about life and how to live it. Beginning as a seemingly idiosyncratic story about troop greeters - a group of senior citizens who gather daily at a small airport to thank American soldiers departing and returning from Iraq, the film quickly turns into a moving, unsettling and compassionate story ...

Directed By: Aron Gaudet

Written By: Gita Pullapilly, Aron Gaudet

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
67
80% Positive
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
67
80% Positive
8 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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88
Not so much a slice of life as the whole pie, the highs and lows of twilight living, all found and filmed in a terminal at an airport in Maine. What a country.
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75
Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
70
Although the trio's work as "troop greeters" is the film's ostensible subject, their renewed and somewhat tenuous sense of purpose gives the doc its bite.
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70
Becomes a bracing portrait of three fascinating individuals who use this work as a means to keep living.
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67
Neither pro- nor anti-war; it’s a somber study of perpetually unsettled lives.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
60
Though Aron Gaudet’s documentary never quite captures the relieved atmosphere of these homecomings, it does acknowledge the dark side of a cheery platitude: those on both sides of the divide are in need of healing.
By S. James Snyder FULL REVIEW
50
It's the stuff of a fine short on what any "Bowling Alone" reader knows is the last generation of civic-minded civilians, but Gaudet has a hard time extending his material to feature length.
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Production Company The Way We Get By
Release Date Aug 14, 2009
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Unrated
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Tagline Sometimes all it takes is a handshake to change a life.
Website http://www.thewaywegetbymovie.com/
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Awards

New Hampshire Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 1 Nomination
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 1 Nomination

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