Limping into theaters this weekend with a whimper is Justin Timberlake’s “The Open Road,” a baseball father n’ son tale that also stars Jeff Bridges and go-to girl nextdoor Kate Mara. We didn’t even mention it in this morning’s In Theaters piece, because its not even listed on Rotten Tomatoes (though MetaCritic does mention it).
Digging around to see if other people noticed its quiet arrival in theaters this weekend, we realized (via Movieline) the picture has been dumped into 14 theaters across the country, errr… middle America. According to the official website, it has one L.A. date, no New York date, four dates across Texas, two dates in Tennessee, two dates in North Carolina and then scattered one theater listings in Florida, Arizona, Indianapolis, etc.
Can you say dumped? This is almost as bad as the “Marc Pease Experience” roll-out. It has zero reviews on RT or MetaCritic. Cry JT a river?