The Leisure Seeker 2017
- Director: Gavin Hood
- Based on the novel by Michael Zadoorian
- Cast: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney, Daney Ivy, Dick Gregory
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Helen Mirren – Woman in Gold, Eye in the Sky, The Hundred Foot Journey, Brighton Rock, The Tempest, The Last Station, The Queen, Elizabeth, Calendar Girls, The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Gosford Park, Some Mother’s Son, The Madness of King George, The Prince of Jutland, Prime Suspect. Mosquito Coast, Cymbeline, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Excalibur, Hamlet, O Lucky Man
- Donald Sutherland – Ad Astra, The Hunger Games 1-4, The Eagle, The Pillars of the Earth, Cold Mountain, A Dry White Season, Klute, Johnny Got His Gun, M*A*S*H
- Christian McKay – The Theory of Everything, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- Daney Ivy – The Help, Homicide Life on the Street, Sleepless in Seattle, Postcards from the Edge, Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
- Why? Mirren
- Seen: 8 November 2020
Ella (Mirren) and John (Sutherland), an
elderly couple, take off in their old Winnebago to parts unknown, to their
adult children’s dismay.
Ella is a friendly, chatty person from South
Carolina who loves travelling. John is a former teacher who can spout long literary
quotes but cannot always remember who Ella is. They are both suffering from John’s
advanced and severe dementia and she is running away from her cancer treatments.
They are a very loving couple.
Yes, getting old is rubbish. Yes, being
ill is rubbish. Mirren and Sutherland are pros. But as a whole it’s too
lovey-dovey for me and the story gets awfully melodramatic, even silly. The
film makers are trying too hard to push all the tear-jerker buttons. It doesn’t
work on me.
The music is good, though.
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