The Road Movie

Alice Lowe, who stars as Tina and who co-wrote this film with her co-star, Steve Oram, describes this film as "a very British dog comedy. I think anyone who has been on holiday would enjoy it because it's about a road trip and it's also a love story. So I think it's a date movie, really..."

"The joy of a road movie is its very simple narrative nature, which is that you know you're going to go through different places and you're going to meet new people. At the same time, you have to not make it feel too obvious and too crudely episodic. "-- Sam Mendes The theme of this series is “the

Lost in America (dir: Albert Brooks, 1985) is a quintessential road movie. A man who is fired from his job, but his already dissatisfied with his life, convinces his wife to quit her job and head out on the open road to 'touch the Indians." She too is dissatisfied: with her job, with her marriag