Two for the Road

Released Apr 27, 1967

1 hr. 52 min.

Romance

Comedy

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83%

24 Reviews

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84%

5,000+ Ratings

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Architect Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife, Joanna (Audrey Hepburn), travel to France to meet with an affluent client (Claude Dauphin). While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

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Audrey Hepburn commands the screen and Albert Finney somehow holds his own brilliantly opposite her.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/20/24

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Farah R

Only one word can describe my feelings while watching this film: bored. Not a single moment excited me even a little from start to finish. My focus constantly shifted to the slightest disturbance as the film failed to captivate me. The story is bland, the characters are flat, and the ending is unsatisfactory. Two For the Road is a major pass.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/02/23

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Brent A

10% rating .... Really struggled to maintain any interest in the storyline.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

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Audience Member

It doesn't matter how mixed up the scenes can get with the non-linear direction chosen for this movie, the end result is something delightful. It really is digestible and doesn't go for an esoteric approach as with movies of similar plots that act deep by trying to be something they're not. On the contrary, Two for the Road portrays married life with the least bit of pretentiousness. And above all, Stanley Donen treats us to some beautiful cinematography, with all its great views, the era it was shot in, the transitions, and the colors, which in turn accentuate the different looks of Audrey Hepburn, who was vivacious as she excelled at every character trait throughout the different time periods. Of course, all of this would still render the movie incomplete without Albert Finney's palpable input and the amazing chemistry he demonstrates with Audrey.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

"Two for the Road" from 1967 is an odd film. On one hand it shows the evolution of a marriage as it hits different points of its relationship. Those moments are shown in flashbacks with couples on various road trips. Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney play the couple. On the other hand the film is very dated, which doesn't usually bother since it should represent the time in which it was made. The moral of the story, however, is perplexing. The Finney character is such an miserable louse and a cheat. It makes it difficult to hope for his happiness, especially since the audience knows things about him that his wife never finds out about. It is a flaw in the storytelling. Still the film is an adult look at marriage and what constitutes happiness, or contentment.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Chad T

Finney and Hepburn shine as Mark and Joanna who take us along for a ride through lust, love, life, heartache, pain and finally a place of comfort and perhaps real love. These weren't easy travels for them, but ultimately, truthful. This isn't a rom-com. In its true sense, it's a life lesson through which Mark and Joanna come out the other end together.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/04/21

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Stanley Donen

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Audrey Hepburn

Joanna Wallace

Albert Finney

Mark Wallace

Eleanor Bron

Cathy Manchester

William Daniels

Howard Manchester

Claude Dauphin

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Jan Dawson

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Would be a far better film if it could only decide which of three lanes it wanted to drive in - comedy, farce or philosophical comment.

Mar 19, 2020

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

A Hollywood-style romance between beautiful people, and an honest story about recognizable human beings.

Rated: 4/4

Jul 2, 2018

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Wendy Ide

Times (UK)

With Two for the Road... Donen took a romantic comedy and deconstructed it, using the nonlinear structure and jump cuts that were being popularised at the time by the French new wave.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 23, 2015

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

A fierce and funny dissection of a marriage in trouble.

Rated: 3.5/4

Mar 21, 2023

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Zita Short

InSession Film

I do appreciate the fact that this is the rare film on the list which deals with the ebb and flow of a marriage, rather than being about youthful, impulsive infatuation.

Feb 7, 2023

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Roger Moore

Movie Nation

What a film fan sees when one closes ones eyes and imagines the definitive road picture.

Rated: 4/4

Feb 15, 2022

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Synopsis

Architect Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) and his wife, Joanna (Audrey Hepburn), travel to France to meet with an affluent client (Claude Dauphin). While there, they reflect on their first decade of marriage -- memories of when they first met, of courtship and of road trips through the French countryside. As flirtation and playful quarreling turn to boredom with the banality of married life, the Wallaces struggle to rekindle their passion, while mutual infidelity threatens to tear them apart.

Director: Stanley Donen
Screenwriter: Frederic Raphael
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 27, 1967, Original
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013

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