Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Are you looking for a serious Audrey Hepburn movie? Two for the Road is a drama about a man and woman on the verge of divorce looking back over their life together. They met while traveling, so the story shows them traveling the same road together from young adulthood until middle age. The viewer sees the many adventures and betrayals that a couple can face.

Audrey Hepburn plays Joanna, the woman who is on tour in Europe with a girls' singing group. The group meets up with Mark (Albert Finney). Mark is leaving with Jackie (Jacqueline Bisset) until she comes down with chicken pox like the rest of the group. So Joanna travels on with Mark. They travel with the group, with an ex-girlfriend and her family, and as just the two of them. The ex-girlfriend's family has a little girl who causes too many problems. The journeys are all mixed together showing them one scene during their youth, the next as a married couple, and then as a problematic couple. Their ages are constantly changing throughout the movie.

Two for the Road is the third and final Stanley Donen directed movie that Audrey Hepburn starred in. She was 38 years old when the movie was made, but she is dressed up to be a young adult during part of the movie. She did a realistic job passing as a person in her 20s. Albert Finney co-stars with Hepburn as her husband. He was most recently in Erin Brockovich and Big Fish. William Daniels is a fellow traveler and husband of one of Mark's ex-girlfriends. He played Mr. Finney in "Boy Meets World" during the 1990s.

Two for the Road is not my favorite Audrey Hepburn film or my favorite Stanley Donen film. It was slow starting with a few funny moments. It does have many fans and a lot of positive reviews. I am just not one of those people. I read that it is Stanley Donen's masterpiece. I guess I am one of the few people that liked Donen's Charade better. It is a movie worth viewing at least once, but I probably will not watch it again.

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