Synopsis
The Trip (2011) is a British comedy-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom — watch it online on iFILM. Steve Coogan plays a version of himself: hired by The Observer to review the finest restaurants across northern England, he had planned a romantic getaway. His girlfriend pulls out. Rob Brydon steps in.
The two drive through Yorkshire and the Lake District, eat well, and spend most of the journey doing celebrity impressions and bickering about who does Michael Caine better. Underneath the riffing, quieter questions surface — about ambition, middle age, and what the other person has that you don't.
Winterbottom originally made The Trip as a six-part series for BBC Two, then cut it into this feature-length film. The result sits somewhere between road movie, stand-up comedy and melancholy character study. Stream The Trip (2011) online on iFILM.
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