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Travels With My Aunt, 1972
English
USA
Profile of Travels With My Aunt
Travels With My Aunt can be described as clever, humorous, and offbeat. The plot revolves around an odd couple, a missing person, and an eccentric family. The main genre is comedy. In terms of style, Travels With My Aunt has a road movie structure. In approach, it is realistic. It is based on a book. Travels With My Aunt has received attention for being an Oscar winner.
Summary of Travels With My Aunt
Based upon Graham Greene's best-selling novel, TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT follows the misadventures of a free-spirited woman, Augusta (Maggie Smith), who whisks her priggish banker nephew, Henry (Alec McCowen), across Europe in search of ransom money for her kidnapped ex-lover (Robert Stephens). Henry agrees to come along with his eccentric aunt after his mother's funeral, and as circumstances quickly progress from strange to dire, the meek and mild Henry finds himself caught up in an adventure beyond his wildest dreams.
McCowen gives a subtle performance as the young banker forced to peel away layers of reserve as he adapts to this chaotic adventure. He serves as the perfect foil for Smith, who received an Academy Award nomination for her enthusiastically zany embrace of the unpredictable aunt. Director George Cukor (THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, GASLIGHT) expertly plays the two wildly contrasting lead characters off one another, sending the film gamboling ever forward with Aunt Augusta while never allowing the emotional center of the film--McCowen's timorous banker--to be left behind.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 17 December 1972 |
| Runtime: | 109 min |
| Awards: | Academy Awards |
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Cast and Crew
as Aunt Augusta Bertram
as Henry Pulling
