Welcome back Maya Rudolph!

The ex-Saturday Night Live player best known for her blistering Beyonce and Oprah impressions has been lying low since leaving the late-night series at the start of the 2007 season.  Granted, she had a good reason for taking some time off; she was the mother of a two-year old toddler, Pearl, her daughter with revered director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights, There Will Be Blood).  In the two years since her departure, Rudolph has occassionally popped up in guest spots on SNL and also lent her voice to animated projects like The Simpsons and Shrek the Third.  Fortunately, we’ll be seeing lots more of Rudolph in the year ahead; she was just cast alongside Salma Hayek in Adam Sandler’s next movie and in June she stars in the Sam Mendes-directed road comedy Away We Go.  Written by acclaimed novelsists Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, the film follows an expectant unmarried couple (Rudolph and John Krasinski from The Office) on their cross-country trip in search of a new place to call home.  Along the way, they encounter a number of eccentric personalities, played by such ace character actors as Allison Janey, Jeff Daniels and Maggie Gyllenhaal.  Don’t expect a Road Trip-style broad comedy though.  The recently released trailer suggests the film will be more of a whimsical Juno-like affair, minus, one hopes, all the stupid pop-culture slang.  Check out the teaser below and look for Away We Go to hit theaters on June 5, 2009.