Other Titles • The Daytrippers • En route vers Manhattan (1997)
Synopses for The Daytrippers (1996)
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When a suburban housewife, Eliza (Hope Davis), discovers a love letter in her husband's pocket, it starts a wild, quirky, and ultimately poignant journey through the strained relationships of her entire dysfunctional family. Thinking it must be some misunderstanding, she brings the letter to her unbearably dominating mother (Anne Meara), who freaks and piles her passive husband (Pat McNamara), Eliza's promiscuous sister (Parker Posey), and her philosophical fiancé (Liev Schreiber) into a station wagon and heads off to New York City for an explanation. First-time writer/director Gregg Mottola changes the road movie's typically vast and open landscape to a claustrophobic, bustling urban setting but still uses it as a way to force out unspoken emotional turmoil between all three of the couples. His dialogue is often sharp and perceptive, and while the situations often contain huge laughs, an undercurrent of pain lurks just beneath the humor. The indie film uses conversations instead of plot to drive its action, and therefore needs engaging performances to succeed. With the exception of the one-note Posey, it gets them: Davis and Schreiber both play pathos and humor beautifully, and Stanley Tucci's cameo as the suspect husband--and the heartbreaking rooftop dance he performs--provides a surprising and ambiguous conclusion. --Dave McCoy
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When a content housewife discovers a love letter addressed to her husband, she impetuously piles the family into the station wagon to confront her husband directly, embarking on a journey of discovery into affairs of the heart.
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What A Day. What A Trip.
She thought she was happily married -- until she found the note. Now Mom says there's only one thing to do…
Hope Davis stars with Stanley Tucci and a hip ensemble cast featuring Anne Meara and Parker Posey in this no-potholes-barred road comedy about a dysfunctional Long Island family searching Manhattan for romantic truth. But the truth will surprise everyone as this scavenger hunt for the heart unfolds to its unexpected conclusion. "Smart and charmingly neurotic. The Daytrippers reinvents an American classic." -Dwight Carner, Harper's Bazaar
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