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The Guilt Trip (12A)
Directed by Anne Fletcher
Friday 08 March 2013
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EmailA Jewish mother and son go on a road trip from hell and bond along the way in this gentle comedy drama.
In it Barbra Streisand is the money-pinching mum who phones her grown-up son constantly during the day to nag him about his health and his love life.
Seth Rogen plays her weary offspring, who's a struggling inventor desperate to sell his new invention - an environmentally friendly cleaning liquid - to a big corporation.
He decides to take her on his cross-country sales trip in order for her to meet up again with her first true high school sweetheart.
Directed by Anne Fletcher this is a heart-warming tale which doesn't outlast its welcome and Streisand and Rogen make a great double act.
It works best as a drama although it could have done with a larger injection of humour and if you're expecting an all-out raucous comedy then prerpare to be disappointed.
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