To be fair to Curtis, Off the Rails is more like a Richard Curtis make-your-own-dramedy at-home game, with each character’s personality stamped on a card and they roll the dice to see which complications ensue.
Off the Rails
United Kingdom · 2021
1h 34m
Director Jules Williamson
Starring Kelly Preston, Jenny Seagrove, Sally Phillips, Ben Miller
Genre Comedy
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Now in their 50’s, four friends recreate an inter-rail journey across Europe, but this time 18-year-old Maddie is taking her mother’s place, fulfilling her dying wish. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements thrown in their way, they must put old feuds aside to complete the journey within five days and remind themselves that they are still at their peak.
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What are critics saying?
The net effect of Debbie Harry popping up at 10-second intervals on the soundtrack to top up levels of ironic sass is to highlight how that quality is in generally short supply in the script.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
There is something utterly perplexing about this British comedy, in which three middle-aged women go on an Interrailing trip with the daughter of a recently departed friend: it’s as if the cast and crew were planning to make a musical, then got to the set and decided they couldn’t be bothered.
The Observer (UK) by Wendy Ide
Bickering middle-aged women obsessing over travel arrangements is not entertainment, it’s a living hell.
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