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02/26/03
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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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Reviews for The Trip
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
The comic moments are so forced that you expect a laugh track, while the dramatic moments have all the subtlety of Valley of the Dolls.
05/08/03
[Swain] takes too many cheap shots at paper-tiger antagonists, and settles for melodrama when quiet warmth would suffice.
05/29/03
Top CriticIt is never a good sign when the audience is two steps ahead of the characters on the screen. Waiting for them to catch up wears everyone out.
05/23/03
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 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
[The] film never departs from the straight-and -narrow technique of a television movie.
05/09/03
Top CriticThe 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
Compulsively horrible and full of unintentional poignant hilarity.
05/06/03
Top CriticThis debut feature from Miles Swain boasts sincerity and good intentions that are consistently undermined by mediocre execution.
05/15/03
The movie's strength is the rapport between the two appealing leads. It's hurt, though, by shifts in structure and tone.
06/20/03
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
True romance stumbles.
05/09/03
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
There are a couple of good aspects to “The Trip,” particularly Steve Braun’s performance, that will appeal to its niche audience.
07/29/03
There is absolutely nothing that hasn't been said more compellingly and originally somewhere else, and said often.
09/05/03
For all the supposed rootedness in momentous events, public and private, nothing really happens in The Trip.
05/02/03
By the time it's over you'll be able to fill a bumper sticker with everything you've learned.
08/01/03
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