PG-13 | Comedy, Drama | May 16, 2023 (re-release)
“The Way” was released in 2010 and is soon back in theaters for a limited run. Around the time of it’s debut, one immediately assumed that movie stars Emilio Estevez and his father Martin Sheen, made this movie together with their troubled movie star brother/son Charlie Sheen in mind, in hopes that he’d see the need for a thorough soul-cleansing.
Emilio Estevez (R) gives direction to his father, Martin Sheen, on the set of “The Way.” (Arc Entertainment)
Like so many actors before Charlie, who succumbed to the excesses of Hollywood and successfully recovered (Robert Downey Jr. and Mickey Rourke being a couple of prime examples; not to mention Martin Sheen himself), one hoped “The Way” would give Charlie (who was going through a particularly toxic period at the time) a road to a Damascus type of revelation….