Plot
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Release Year: 2012
Rating: 6.7/10 (5,510 voted)
Director:Ben Wheatley
Storyline
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
Filming Locations: Keswick, Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK
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Trivia:
Ribblehead viaduct is 440 yards long, and 104 feet above the valley floor at its highest point. It is made up of twenty-four arches of 45 feet span, with foundations 25 feet deep. The north end of the viaduct is 13 feet higher in elevation than the south end. 1.5 million bricks were used in the construction and some of the limestone blocks weighed 8 tons each. See more »
Goofs:
When Chris and Tina first arrive at the Abbey he is wearing gaiters. When they are inside the Abbey he's not wearing them but when they go outside again he is wearing them. See more »
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User Review
A Sight for Sore Eyes
Rating: 8/10
Ben Wheatley provides one of the year's darkest and funniest comedies
in this tale of true love, caravans and dead bodies.
Ever since her terrier Poppy died in a bizarre knitting accident, Tina
(Darkplace's Alice Lowe) has lived a sheltered life with her mother.
New boyfriend Chris (Steve Oram) decides to show her his world and
takes her on a self-proclaimed "erotic odyssey" in his caravan to such
wonders as the Crich Tramway Museum, Ribblehead Viaduct and, of course,
Keswick Pencil Museum. But with litterbug, National Trust snobs and
feral youths running rampant, Tina and Chris inadvertently leave a
trail of dead bodies in their wake, as their holiday continues to
spiral out of control.
Steve Oram heads up the fantastic cast as the muted, yet brutal, Chris,
complementing Alice Lowe's awkward, yet creepy, Tina perfectly.
However, the real star is the special effects, which provide some of
the most realistic and memorable on screen deaths of the year. The
unsettling, albeit hilarious, performances of the two leads is mirrored
in the soundtrack, a mix of cheery '80s pop songs and a haunting
minimalist score.
Shot in the beautiful Lake District, director Ben Wheatley uses
lingering shots and slow-mo in an innovative way, making his comedy
edgy whilst poignant. No doubt, this is a very British black comedy.
Wheatley shows directorial flair, but reigns it in from his previous
work Kill List, leading to a much tighter film, with a concentration on
the biting wit of the script.
Sightseers, overall, plays out like a cross between Bonnie & Clyde and
In Bruges, leading to a perfect pitch-black comedy that's not for the
faint hearted.
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