Elderly Brit Travelers Turn Up Safe and Sound
from the screw-this.-let’s-go-somewhere-else. dept.
Three elderly British vacationers, who left for a French resort last Saturday and hadn’t been heard from by their friends and family since, turned up none the worse for wear today, after an increasingly frantic manhunt in France, Spain, and Britain failed to locate any sign of them. It turns out they didn’t like the stairs that led to their originally booked accommodations, and ended up staying in a different town, nearby, without bothering to tell anyone. This has “lighthearted romantic comedy” written all over it, don’t you think? With quick cuts back and forth between the stressed-out relatives and their pleasantly vacationing elders, and with any number of homey messages at the end. I’m seeing Meg Ryan as the daughter of one of the missing, and Colin Firth or Hugh Grant as the son of another, with them initially worried sick and blaming each other, but with wedding bells by the final reel. Ron Howard will direct.
