Social miscontent Timothy Bottoms on bicycle tour of Spain ditches it for coach tour, meets prim and proper and uptight Maggie Smith, who has an alarming habit of slipping into dysphasia. They both seem to have a habit of doing ridiculous things, she for example falling out of bed and breaking things, he punching through a hotel wall. Eventually romance is found. He's particularly not that easy to like, but eventually they set off in a shitty rented caravan, and she's almost seduced by a Duke. She confesses that she has the Dreaded Hollywood Terminal Illness and they both go home, though the last moments of the film show them married, in Spain, but whether that's a projection we don't know.
It's a bit of an annoying mess.
Written by Alvin Sargent (Paper Moon, Julia, Ordinary People, Unfaithful) and photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth.
Mournful looking Bottoms' career had already peaked here.
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