Serendipity Road

Nice wee road trip! Acting wasnt to bad. Good effort!

A husband and wife with a strained relationship, pack up and go on a road trip. They fight along the way over things such as the radio station and stop along the way to pick up a stranded motorist who the husband recognises from his past. As the journey continues the circumstances behind the "coincidence" of picking up this person is revealed. Nice shots of the interior of the car and in general an OK, if not predictable story. Some audio and exposure issues at time and the dialogue seemed somewhat strained at times which slowed the whole thing done. A curious mix of serious and funny at times.

An arguing husband (Bobby Young) and wife head out on a road trip to get to an event of some kind. Bobby is a douchey golf-playing yuppie type who probably votes ACT, and has a clearly strained relationship with his wife, complaining about her constant texting during the trip. Their journey is interrupted when they stop to pick up a broken-down motorist (with the foreshadowing car licence plate "4PLAYR"). It turns out to be Bobby's former bullying victim. They offer him a lift. Smarmy git that he is, Bobby conversationally rubs his financial success in his victim's face, but despite his efforts, his former victim's satisfied smile never leaves him. At a comfort stop the motorist sends a text, the wife's phone beeps and (finally) putting two and two together, Bobby grabs his wife's phone to discover his wife's texting is sexting, and his former victim is now shagging her. Furious, he makes to exact his revenge on the (still oblivious) motorist with one of his golf clubs, but is delayed long enough by his repentant wife that he is (seemingly) hit by a truck. An interesting idea to do a sort of little character study sort of thing, but it strained credulity in several places - the fact that they came across the wife's lover broken down, the lover character seeming to be all but coming out and saying "I'm shagging your wife" with his actions and words while talking to Bobby, and him sending her a "secret" text when her husband was right there - something of a risky manoeuvre! The film almost seemed to make a last minute plea for audience sympathy for Bobby as well, after spending most of its length establishing him as a dickhead, and the truck seemed like a bit of a deus ex machina. However, there were pretty strong performances from the three actors, and the story kept one interested.

An arguing husband (Bobby Young) and wife head out on a road trip to get to an event of some kind. Bobby is a douchey golf-playing yuppie type who probably votes ACT, and has a clearly strained relationship with his wife, complaining about her constant texting during the trip. Their journey is interrupted when they stop to pick up a broken-down motorist (with the foreshadowing car licence plate "4PLAYR"). It turns out to be Bobby's former bullying victim. They offer him a lift. Smarmy git that he is, Bobby conversationally rubs his financial success in his victim's face, but despite his efforts, his former victim's satisfied smile never leaves him. At a comfort stop the motorist sends a text, the wife's phone beeps and (finally) putting two and two together, Bobby grabs his wife's phone to discover his wife's texting is sexting, and his former victim is now shagging her. Furious, he makes to exact his revenge on the (still oblivious) motorist with one of his golf clubs, but is delayed long enough by his repentant wife that he is (seemingly) hit by a truck. An interesting idea to do a sort of little character study sort of thing, but it strained credulity in several places - the fact that they came across the wife's lover broken down, the lover character seeming to be all but coming out and saying "I'm shagging your wife" with his actions and words while talking to Bobby, and him sending her a "secret" text when her husband was right there - something of a risky manoeuvre! The film almost seemed to make a last minute plea for audience sympathy for Bobby as well, after spending most of its length establishing him as a dickhead, and the truck seemed like a bit of a deus ex machina. However, there were pretty strong performances from the three actors, and the story kept one interested.