Wendy and Lucy is many things: buddy picture, social critique and road movie deconstruction all in one. It might also be the most subtly moving picture of the season. Michelle Williams stars as Wendy, an earnest gamine who, along with her dog Lucy, travels from Indiana to Alaska in search of lucrative work at a fish cannery. Things go awry, however, when her car breaks down in a small-town Oregon parking lot, signaling the first in a series of calamities that challenge both Wendy’s moral fiber and her pocketbook. She is arrested for shoplifting, her dog goes missing and her car proves beyond repair, leaving her stranded and almost penniless.