Michael Winterbottom · 2010 · road

Michael Winterbottom's 2010 film, edited from a TV series. Steve Coogan, stood up by his girlfriend, takes his friend Rob Brydon on a tour of fine restaurants across the north of England for a newspaper, the two of them improvising, bickering, doing duelling Michael Caine impressions, and quietly contemplating mortality among the fells.

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   Manchester

   Stood up by his girlfriend, Steve Coogan takes Rob Brydon on a restaurant tour of the North for a newspaper piece.

2. 2
   The Lake District

   Fine dining and relentless Michael Caine impressions amid the fells and lakes of Cumbria.

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   The Yorkshire Dales

   More restaurants, more bickering, more middle-aged melancholy, across the green Dales.