The Trip to Italy (2014)

Two men, six meals in six different places on a road trip around Italy. Liguria, Tuscany, Rome, Amalfi and ending in Capri.

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writer:

Michael Winterbottom

Stars:

Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner

1 nomination.

Cast

Credited cast:
Steve Coogan	...	Steve Coogan
Rob Brydon	...	Rob
Rosie Fellner	...	Lucy
Claire Keelan	...	Emma
Marta Barrio	...	Yolanda
Tim Leach	...	Joe (Steve's Son) (as Timothy Leach)
Ronni Ancona	...	Donna
Rebecca Johnson	...	Sally (Rob's Wife)
Alba Foncuberta Bufill	...	La Suvera Receptionist
Flora Villani	...	Villa Cimbrone Receptionist
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Alessandro Cuomo	...	Mario

Storyline

Years after their successful restaurant review tour of Northern Britain, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are commissioned for a new tour in Italy. Once again, the two comedy buddies/rivals take the landscape as well as the cuisine of that country in a trip filled with witty repartee and personal insecurities. Along the way, their own professional and personal lives comes in as these slightly older men's friendship comes through.

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Plot Keywords:

road movie | englishman in italy | italy | tuscany | restaurant | 

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Taglines:

Anyone for seconds?

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Did You Know?

Trivia

Like the previous film, The Trip (2010), Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan improvised their scenes together.

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Goofs

Toward the end of the movie (33 minute to the end), they are showing and commenting about a fruit they call "kumquat" which is in fact a "Physalis" also called "Cape Gooseberry", a fruit originally from Chile and Peru. A Kumquat is like a miniature orange, which can be eaten whole, or used in making marmalade. It has a very sharp flavour. A physalis has a paper-like husk like a tomatillo and is very sweet when ripe.

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Quotes

Rob: You know what would make this perfect now? Michael Bublé. Bit of Bublé. Do you like Bublé? Where do you stand on Michael Bublé?
Steve: His windpipe?

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Connections

References Life's Too Short (2011)

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Soundtracks

Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen [Rückert-Lieder]
Written by Gustav Mahler and Friedrich Rückert (uncredited)
Performed by Violeta Urmana
Courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon
Under license from Universal Music Operations Limited

User Reviews

Michael Winterbottom and his midlife crisis

Not very familiar with the actors, I enjoyed some of the conversations although the imitations do start to get annoying halfway the movie. You can see they are great actors but you do feel the script pouring through lots of the time... It has to look like 2 friends getting together having funny conversations but it just doesn't work. Plus I got very annoyed with the maffia/Al Pacino/Marlon Brando imitations, it was just too easy. Overall it felt more like Michael Winterbottom has started his midlife crisis and uses the actors, the script and Italy to get to the (michaelwinter)bottom of it. A pointless one night stand, 2 older English guys "trying" to be funny, beautiful scenery, it just breathed midlife crisis everywhere. I just found it too easy, he could have made something better honestly, maybe put in a weird end with someone dying or something a bit more shocking.. now its just a small river of sometimes funny conversations between two 40something English guys who still want to shag all young, beautiful girls, and who do feel more male when they succeed in this, while they get drunk on gin and tonics... It looks like Michael Winterbottom went to Italy himself, red some Lord Byron and Don Juan, felt himself a bit like Woody Allen and combined this with his upcoming midlife crisis and this was what came out.....The scenery is beautiful though and you will crave for a fab pasta just because of the food shots.

Details

Official Sites:

IFC Films [United States] Official Facebook

Country:

UK

Language:

English Italian

Release Date:

25 April 2014 (UK)

Also Known As:

The Trip to Italy

Filming Locations:

Italy

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$71,712, 17 August 2014

Gross USA:

$2,880,537

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$6,132,875

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Revolution Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

108 min 175 min (mini-series)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1