Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Earl Lynn Nelson, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Alice Olivia Clarke
Directors: Martha Stephens, Aaron Katz
Running time: 95 mins
Rating: M (offensive language, sexual references, drug use)
Verdict: Enjoyable tale of old geezers on the road.
Unassuming and amiable, this road-trip buddy comedy, which played in the festival last year, belongs squarely in the sub-genre of very-low-budget American indies with untrained actors and improvised dialogue that has been dubbed mumblecore.
Its striking point of difference is the age of its main characters: mumblecore films are generally by and about twentysomethings, but the buddies here are in their 70s.
Mitch (Nelson), a retired surgeon with a southern accent you could stand a spoon in, and expatriate Australian Colin (Eenhoorn), are one-time brothers-in-law who have drifted apart. The former shouts the latter a holiday in Iceland - "We're getting our groove back," he says at one point - and we come along for the ride.
