Despite its flaws, it eventually gets under your skin and is sweetly moving.
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09/25/03
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The Trip (2003)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:12
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.9/10
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: In 1973, Alan Oakley, a 24 year old Republican journalist working for the Los Angeles Chronicle, has a promising future sure to make his military father proud. At the other end of the spectrum,... [More]
Starring: Steve Braun, Larry Sullivan, Jill St. John, Ray Baker
Director: Miles Swain
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Top CriticThere is absolutely nothing that hasn't been said more compellingly and originally somewhere else, and said often.
09/05/03
The story's third-act detour into tragedy is predictable and unwelcome, providing a resolution that is too pat and familiar to be moving.
09/05/03
It's ... drenched in melodrama, saddled with a forced plot and surrounded by so many character stereotypes that the film almost becomes self-parody.
08/14/03
By the time it's over you'll be able to fill a bumper sticker with everything you've learned.
08/01/03
Top CriticThere are a couple of good aspects to “The Trip,” particularly Steve Braun’s performance, that will appeal to its niche audience.
07/29/03
Pack your sequined T-shirts, your favorite bell-bottoms, and a sturdy houseplant and get ready to take a sentimental trip with two guys who will first have you laughing and then shedding a tear or two.
07/25/03
For a film with so many problems, it is awfully hard to dislike.
07/25/03
The soft personal story is caught between history, including the coming of AIDS, and Swain's reach for sitcom bitchiness and final pathos indebted to Midnight Cowboy.
07/21/03
The screenplay has huge holes, character motivations are inexplicable, the tone switches from serious to loopy and back to serious, and the editing is choppy and uneven.
07/21/03
Top CriticThe acting in The Trip is inconsistent, and I didn't really buy the conflict at its heart, but it's a big-hearted movie.
07/11/03
The Trip almost dares you not to like it, even when its script heads in all the wrong directions.
07/10/03
Top CriticThe movie's strength is the rapport between the two appealing leads. It's hurt, though, by shifts in structure and tone.
06/20/03
Riddled with romantic and political cliches but is often redeemed by the charismatic performances of Braun and Sullivan.
06/19/03
Top CriticThe Trip handles some of its seriocomic moments awkwardly... but, anchored by solid acting and deftly managed scenes, it’s a project that bodes well for nearly all the young talent involved.
06/09/03
Like being stuck in the backseat on a lengthy family expedition with nothing to do but play that license-plate game, The Trip is an extended journey into boredom.
06/05/03
A journey well worth taking, encompassing a tender, wrenching love story set against an 11-year span of the gay rights movement, from 1973 to 1984.
06/05/03
Top CriticAs so often happens in queer moviemaking, the attempts at raucous humor distract from the lovers.
06/05/03
This is a trip where you will likely find yourself asking, 'Are we there yet?'
06/02/03
Top Critic[Swain] takes too many cheap shots at paper-tiger antagonists, and settles for melodrama when quiet warmth would suffice.
05/29/03
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