The Trip
- Release Date
- April 24, 2011
- Director
- Michael Winterbottom
- Cast
- Steve Coogan , Rob Brydon , Claire Keelan , Margo Stilley , Rebecca Johnson , Dolya Gavanski
- Runtime
- 107
- Main Genre
- Comedy
- Writers
- Steve Coogan , Margo Stilley
- Tagline
- “Do not bring a beverage into the theater. While watching Brydon and Coogan's dueling impressions of Michael Caine, Sean Connery and Hugh Grant, you may laugh so hard that liquid will come out of your nose. I speak from experience.” Richard Corliss, TIME
- Website
- http://www.coogans-run.co.uk/
Summary
Playing loose versions of themselves, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprise their hilariously fictionalized roles from Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story and reunite with acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) for an acerbically witty, largely improvised ride through the English countryside. Tapped by The Observer to review fine restaurants throughout the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, Steve (Coogan) finds himself without a traveling companion after his girlfriend decides not to go at the last minute. After being turned down by everyone else he knows, Steve extends an invitation to Rob (Brydon), and together the pair attempt to navigate the winding back roads of rural England, impersonating popular celebrities such as Michael Caine, Woody Allen and Liam Neeson (among many others) and bickering along the way. Over the course of six different meals at six different restaurants, the ultimate odd couple tests the limits of their friendship, questioning what is most important to them and along the way discover the limits of what they are and are not willing to give up for fame.
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