The Leisure Seeker review – two great actors in dead-end roles

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland do their best with this turgid terminal-illness road movieIt’s fair to say that Hollywood doesn’t have the healthiest relationship with the concept of ageing.

This, after all, is the place where everything, from the eyelids to the armpits to the genitals, can be surgically “rejuvenated”.

So it’s perhaps not surprising that the majority of films that deal with the elderly take the Hollywood anti-ageing mantra – denial, denial, denial, death – as their narrative structure.

And even if death is avoided, you can bet that terminal disease will get a substantial supporting role.This is the case with The Leisure Seeker.

Southern belle Ella and her husband, John (Donald Sutherland), take their trusty Winnebago on a road trip.

But she is bunking off from a hospital appointment and he is suffering from a conveniently intermittent form of dementia.

It’s immediately clear that

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