While The Time of Their Lives has its charm, the lack of kindness between its characters makes it a less than
successful road trip film.
I don't recall hearing much about this during the festival, but it does look like a
fun road trip film.
Many in Hollywood say they see the spiritual - memoir - turned - movie as the next hot genre, suggesting there are ongoing talks about turning Lauren Winner's «Girl Meets God» into a romantic comedy, Ian Cron's «Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and Me» into an action flick, Anne Lamott's «Traveling Mercies» into an
indie road trip film, Kathleen Norris» «The Cloister Walk» into something really creepy involving monks.»
The result is a
drab road trip film, a cross between Grumpy Old Men and National Lampoon's Vacation, as the aged Bryson (Robert Redford) and his crude former buddy Katz (Nick Nolte) set out to hike the Appalachian Trail.
Harold Ramis took the family vacation movie off cruise - control in 1983, proffering a deliciously
crass road trip film lead by an insolent (and borderline sociopathic) father figure in Chevy Chase and penned by none other than the mighty John Hughes.
Over the last few years, we've gotten Old School, Euro Trip and
Road Trip all films with this slight nostalgic feel of these older cinematic exploits.
Sony Pictures Classics has released an official trailer for an
amusing road trip film titled Boundaries, from writer / director Shana Feste.
Discovering him one night when she leaves the family's cave, Guy warns Eep of an impending change, and that is when the true heart of the film kicks in, becoming a funny and
heartwarming road trip film about an out of the loop family who discover everything about how to live in the new world.
Joining it is Gerard Butler's heist movie Den of Thieves and Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren's
snowbird road trip film The Leisure Seeker.
The movie does not fall into a typical template of
a road trip film and keeps interest and engagement throughout.
At once
a road trip film and also a profoundly moving meditation on aging and memory, Faces Places is one of the best documentaries of this century so far, and a resounding artistic statement by one of the great filmmakers of her time.