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Friday’s openings redux: Two veteran leisure-seekers

Dan Webster

Add to Friday's movie openings one more film, a study of those seeking to find the most in their final years. The additional mainstream opening:

"The Leisure Seeker": Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland play a couple who take off on a road trip, during which they have to deal with a range of obstacles from would-be thieves to growing infirmities.

Here are some of the better reviews:

Glenn Kenney, Rogerebert.com: "The movie is only willing to serve up its truths halfway. And I still teared up."

Alan Scherstuhl, The Village Voice: "The performers are always lively, often engaging, and sometimes moving, worth our contemplation even when the script flags."

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: "The film's poignant and powerful ending does provide a saving grace."

Katherine Monk, Ex-Press.com: "The wheels never get stuck in maudlin because Mirren and Sutherland create so much dramatic momentum, they keep things rolling. More importantly, neither character shrinks from the truth. They are grown-ups playing grown-ups."

That's the lot. But if changes do get made, I'll post them.