Funny, a little poignant, with beautiful scenery and delicious looking food, this trip takes Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon across northern England eating, chatting, doing impressions of their favorite actors, and entertaining us for a delightful week condensed into under 2 hours. Already a Coogan fan, I loved watching him squirm as yet another vain, insecure character (I wrote about my favorites in In the Loop and also enjoyed him in 24 Hour Party People (2002), Hamlet 2, and The Other Guys, among others), this time playing a version of himself. I'd never seen Brydon before but he's a great foil to Coogan and vice versa. It's noteworthy that no writer is listed in the credits, so it must have been improvised. They must be good friends in real life. At the very least, they were in the British mini-series of the same name that inspired this movie, also directed by Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People, Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005) which also starred Coogan, A Mighty Heart (2007), more).
Leave it to imdb fans to give us the exact itinerary for those wanting to visit the fine restaurants in the movie. This is getting its rightful place on my list of food movies for peeks into kitchens and gorgeous platings.
Acclaimed composer Michael Nyman (The Piano (1993), Man on Wire, and many more) provides delectable piano music but remains uncredited on imdb. His name, however, was on the screen for some of the shortest credits ever. Here's a clip.
This will be shown locally for another week. Go see it and have a good meal before or after!
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