Rachel McAdams hits road for "Return" trip

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-07 16:46

Actress Rachel McAdams arrives at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles January 28, 2007. McAdams has signed on to star in 'The Return,' a bittersweet drama about three injured soldiers who come home from Iraq and learn that life has moved on without them. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)

LOS ANGELES - Rachel McAdams has signed on to star in "The Return," a bittersweet drama about three injured soldiers who come home from Iraq and learn that life has moved on without them.

Collee (McAdams), T.K. (Michael Pena) and Cheever ( Tim Robbins) end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S., with Collee on a mission to bring her boyfriend's guitar back to his family because he saved her life.

T.K., meanwhile, seeks the confidence to face his wife after a shrapnel injury that threatens his sexual function, and middle-aged Cheever plans to hit the casinos in a desperate effort to pay for his son's college tuition.

Neil Burger ("The Illusionist") will direct the independently financed project, which Lionsgate will distribute. The budget is less than $20 million.

McAdams, known for her work in "The Notebook" and "Wedding Crashers," most recently appeared in "The Family Stone."

Robbins recently starred in "Catch a Fire." Pena ("Crash") returns to theaters March 23 in the Mark Wahlberg revenge thriller "Shooter."