“Where’d You Go Bernadette” (** out of four) was a curiously unmoving and aloof story about a devoted mom (Cate Blanchett) who decides to return to her creative passions for engineering after years of sacrificing herself for others and her family (Billy Crudup and Emma Nelson) but this new start takes her on a personal and professional adventurous journey that will change her life and that of her family. Disappointing teaming of Blanchett, director Richard Linklater, and writer Maria Semple for whom this novel is based on. Blanchett and Crudup are solid as always but story is unfocused and less-than-compelling.