The Trip - 2-DVD Set

The Trip - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
172 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Anamorphic Widescreen
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Michael Winterbottom

Written By:
Michael Winterbottom

Actors:
Steve Coogan ..... Steve (6 episodes, 2010)
Rob Brydon ..... Rob (6 episodes, 2010)
Claire Keelan ..... Emma (5 episodes, 2010)
Margo Stilley ..... Mischa (5 episodes, 2010)
Rebecca Johnson ..... Sally (4 episodes, 2010)
Dolya Gavanski ..... Magda (2 episodes, 2010)
Kerry Shale ..... Steve's US Agent (2 episodes, 2010)

Synopsis:

An improvised tour of the north of England reunites comedy favourites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. In the style of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the story is fictional but based around their real personas. When Steve is commissioned by the food supplement of a Sunday newspaper to review half a dozen restaurants, he decides to mix work with pleasure and plans a trip around the north with his food-loving American girlfriend. But when she decides to leave him and return to the States, Steve is faced with a week of meals for one, not quite the trip he had in mind. Reluctantly, he calls Rob, the only person he can think of who will be available. Never one to turn down a free lunch (let alone six), Rob agrees and together they set off for a culinary adventure. Over the course of six meals at six different restaurants in and around the Lake District, Lancashire and the Yorkshire Dales, the ultimate odd couple find themselves debating the big questions of life, such as how did I get to be here and where do I go next, over a series of culinary delights.

Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunite with their COCK AND BULL STORY director, Michael Winterbottom, for this fictional series based around their own personas. In THE TRIP, Coogan is charged with the task of writing a food supplement for a Sunday paper. Though he intended to turn his tour of eateries in Britain's north into a jolly with his American girlfriend, he soon has to alter plans when she leaves him and returns to the US. Reluctantly Coogan turns to Brydon and the pair set off on an existential quest and comedy is never far behind...
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: The Inn at Whitewell
Original Air Date-1 November 2010
Steve has been asked to write reviews of six restaurants for a Sunday supplement and plans to use it as a holiday with his girl-friend Mischa. However she dumps him and returns to America so he asks his friend Rob to come with him instead. It becomes clear that Mischa is the real food expert and Steve needs Rob's expert advise. However,at the Inn at Whitewell,they spend their dinner-time trying to outdo each other with film star impressions,though at least a last minute cancellation means they do not have to share a double bed as Steve had feared.
Season 1, Episode 2: L'Enclume
Original Air Date-8 November 2010
Steve wakes from his dream that he is in Hollywood with Ben Stiller to find he is in bed with the Polish receptionist before he and Rob move on to L'Enclume at Cartmel,singing Kate Bush's song 'Wuthering Heights'. On arrival they sample the starter menu,read of Warren Beatty's sexual exploits in the paper and have another duel of impressions,ranging from Ray Winstone to Liam Neeson,over dinner. Afterwards Rob phones his wife for a loving chat whilst Steve rings Mischa in Las Vegas,where she is writing about prostitutes,and has a gloomy conversation with his American agent over his - lack of - a Hollywood career.
Season 1, Episode 3: Holbeck Ghyll
Original Air Date-15 November 2010
Arriving in the lake District Rob and Steve visit Greta Hall,formerly occupied by Coleridge - with whom Steve identifies - and the Wordsworths' home,Dove Cottage. Steve is annoyed as it's about to close and they only get in as the lady on the door is a fan of Rob's. Over dinner at the Holbeck Ghyll hotel there is the inevitable round of impressions - from Alan Bennett to Ken Bruce. No wonder Rob astutely notes that they 'have the same conversation in every restaurant.'
Season 1, Episode 4: Hipping Hall
Original Air Date-22 November 2010
After Steve has had another nightmare he and Rob move on to Hipping Hall,self-indulgence as ever ruling on the impersonation-filled drive . At their destination they meet two young women and Steve is convinced he has met one of them,Yolanda, before. He takes her for a drive where nothing happens but he does get a call to say he has won a part in American show 'Pathological',involving a seven year contract.
Season 1, Episode 5: The Yorke Arms
Original Air Date-29 November 2010
The duo visit the Malham limestone pavement,where Rob quotes 'Tintern Abbey' and Steve ends up rock climbing with a boring geologist.At the Yorke Arms in the Nidderdale Valley they discuss Abba's 'The Winner Takes It All',Welsh actors and film roles they took which ended up in the cutting room. When Steve admits to writer's block on his reviews Rob suggests he take the women they have met on the trip as his inspiration,after which Steve rings his son.
Season 1, Episode 6: The Angel at Hetton
Original Air Date-2010
Following a visit to Bolton abbey - an excuse for Rob to quote Wordsworth and an outdoor breakfast at the Angel at Hetton,the guys drop in on Steve's parents,who seem to be far bigger fans of Rob than of their son. After an operatic contest in the car they return home - Rob to his welcoming family,Steve to his lonely flat. He does,however,phone his agent to turn down the American offer.

The series is a largely improvised sitcom in which Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

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