The Leisure Seeker

    The Leisure Seeker
    2018

    Synopsis

    A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.

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    Cast

    • Helen MirrenElla Spencer
    • Donald SutherlandJohn Spencer
    • Christian McKayWill Spencer
    • Janel MoloneyJane Spencer
    • Dana IveyLillian
    • Dick GregoryDan Coleman
    • Leander SuleimanStuckey's Woman
    • Ahmed LucanStuckey's Man
    • Gabriella CilaChantal
    • David Marshall SilvermanPennsylvania Campground Man

    Recommendations

    • 80

      CineVue

      The Leisure Seeker is dry-eyed even at its most moving and a celebration of love even as it reaches its end.
    • 80

      The Telegraph

      The canon of Alzheimer’s films doesn’t lack for performances piled up with compassion and fine-grained observation, from Iris all the way to Still Alice. But as their faded Winnebago wends its way to the coast, Ella and John show there’s room for two more.
    • 60

      The Guardian

      Watching it is akin to be being waylaid by an expert raconteur. There is the curious sense that it has told this tale before; that every joke has been honed and rehearsed; every anecdote lovingly polished in advance.
    • 58

      The A.V. Club

      This particular film is a collection of cutesy “going in style” clichés — old lady on a motorcycle? Check. Senior-citizen oral sex joke? Check. — compiled into a road movie with shades of "About Schmidt" and "Little Miss Sunshine," and a morbid streak that comes in to cut the quirkiness just a little bit too late.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      A road movie short on comedy and drama should at least offer a keen level of observation, but here insight is scarce and emotional resonance is faint.
    • 50

      Screen Daily

      It’s a long, long road cluttered with clichés and stalled in softness, pot-holed by its self-serving use of Alzheimer’s as a narrative convenience.
    • 40

      Variety

      With a script that signals every progression as obviously as the large-lettered signs used in homes for people with dementia, viewers can guess after 10 minutes exactly how this predictable story is going to end.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      The stars are as imprisoned as their characters’ respective frailties.