John (Sutherland), a former English teacher
dimmed by dementia, wants to see Ernest Hemingway's home in Key West, while Ella (Mirren) knocks back whiskey to dull a malady of her own.
Putting them together in The Leisure Seeker as an elderly Massachusetts couple taking its last joyride in a 1975 Winnebago — he,
dimmed by intermittent
dementia, she, bracing for loneliness — would seem the safest guarantee for excellence: old pros doing what they do best.