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Synopsis: Meg, a teacher, and husband Nick, a philosophy lecturer who may just be about to get the push on the eve of retirement, spend a week-end in Paris to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary. He is staid, annoying his foul-mouthed wife who wants to turn the holiday into a series of exciting new experiences, booking into a hotel that stretches their budgets and running off from a restaurant without paying. She is also averse to his touching her and what was meant to be a belated second honeymoon is a depressing affair, full of arguments - including one about the son who has recently left home to live in squalor and whom Meg does not want to return. By chance they meet an old university friend of Nick, Morgan, an American high-flyer who invites them to a party where Meg can still turn men's heads and Nick has a conversation with Morgan's young son, leading him to believe that he is not as badly off as he had presumed. Ultimately there appears to be hope for the marriage.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Roger Michell
Actors: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Igor Gotsmanov, Olivier Audibert
Production: Music Box Films
  2 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
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2013
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know where they are.

I help you find things all the time,

even when it's futile and stupid.

And don't use my toothbrush.

You'll give me gum disease.

- That's not even yours.

- It bloody is!

- The blue one.

- Oh, yes.

- Blue toothbrushes.

- It's a panda welcome.

The welcoming committee.

Why's that panda staring at me?

- I'm worried.

- Bonjour, monsieur. Bonjour.

Catch me!

Pardon.

Bonsoir.

Bonsoir.

They'll take our last penny.

If it's the end of the world,

I want to go down gulping oysters.

Come on.

I love it when you're in this mood!

- Do you think you're bi-polar?

- Tri-polar, possibly.

Do you think that

part of the reason you invited

Jack and Angie back into the house

was because you can't

bear being alone with me?

I can't bear to be apart from you.

Well, you are

pathetically dependent.

Why don't you want to

help young people?

Shut up.

Idiot!

You're a f***ing idiot, sometimes.

I want a new start.

Sorry?

I wanted to tell you.

I've gone as far as I

want to at the school.

I'm fed up teaching Biology GCSE.

I don't want to run the department.

That's mad. What would

you do instead?

I don't know.

I want to learn Italian,

play the piano,

dance the tango.

Is it such a terrible idea?

Once the kids have gone...

What's left of us?

You've picked our

anniversary to dump me?

We must at least be

able to talk about it.

Right?

Of course.

Come on, love.

Let's enjoy our dinner.

Come on. Let's talk

about the bathroom.

I've got some good ideas.

Nick?

The least you can do is

buy me a last supper.

My pleasure.

Go outside and smoke.

- I don't smoke.

- And wait.

Get your coat.

And get my coat too.

That's all you have to do.

Right.

F***ing hell.

Right.

Excusez-moi. My coat, please.

Of course.

Is everything okay for you, madam?

- Yes, great, thanks.

- Thank you.

Ah, excusez-moi.

Pardon.

Nick!

Nick! Over here!

For Christ's sake,

what are you doing?

Get this thing.

They've plastic on it.

Come on!

Come on, give it a

really good pull!

Yes!

Ah!

God! Come on.

Rock and f***ing roll!

Don't tell the kids.

Merci.

Come on. Come on.

- Let's do it all again.

- What do you mean?

Try me again and I promise

it'll be more fun this time.

Get a room!

Hey, Nick Burrows!

It is. Nick Burrows?

No. Is that really you, under all

that terribly un-English passion?

My God! Good God, hello there!

Yes, hi, how are you? How the damn

devil in the entire world are you?

Tell me everything!

- Wow!

- Great. Good.

Um... Not bad.

- Well, then, this is my wife, Meg.

- Hello.

- Meg, Morgan. Morgan, Meg.

- Your wife?

I've never seen a man

kiss his wife like that.

Well, look at her. She's so...

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Hanif Kureishi

Hanif Kureishi, CBE (born 5 December 1954) is a British playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist of Pakistani and English descent. In 2008, The Times included Kureishi in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". more…

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