Sightseers (2012)

2012 | UK | Ben Wheatley | ★★★★★

Ben Wheatley's decidedly excellent, BIFA-winning Sightseers is a frequently hilarious yet strangely romantic and touching black comedy, featuring a pair of decidedly excellent comic performances from the superb duo of Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.

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"Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina's led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn't take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina's meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris's dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge..." Studiocanal


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