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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, English, Spanish, Subtitled
Director Stanley Donen's funny, poignant look at the 12-year marriage of Joanna and Mark Wallace mixes blissful marital memories with a healthy dose of domestic discord. On their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, the Wallaces (Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney) explore their marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks. They reminisce about the glorious beginning of their love affair, the early years of marriage and the events that led to their subsequent infidelities. As they struggle to understand their relationship, they realize they must accept how they have changed if they are to rekindle their original love.
"Perceptive, winning film. Well directed..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"Touching and well-acted. " VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
Editor's Note
After 12 years of marriage, British couple Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney find themselves wondering whether they should continue forward through life together or go their separate ways. Bickering and bliss get equal time as husband and wife remember the past in its sunny and stormy times, and this perceptive tale of the struggle to create and maintain a fulfilling marriage rings true in nearly every scene.|Seven years earlier, director Stanley Donen explored the stress fractures in marriage with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, and Robert Mitchum in the marvelously keen dramatic comedy THE GRASS IS GREENER, and Donen returned to the subject again in the early 1980s in BLAME IT ON RIO with less empathy and more nudity. TWO FOR THE ROAD, however, has always been the most popular of this trio of films about marriage on the rocks, as Hepburn and Finney give winning performances of partners who love each other but aren't sure they're in love anymore. Screenwriter and novelist Frederic Raphael's sparkling screenplay gives the movie zest and poignancy.
Plot Summary
While flying from England to France to meet her architect husband for a vacation, Joanna Wallace reflects on the past 12 years of their relationship. She specifically recalls the three times that they made this journey together: the first time at the start of their relationship, the second when she was pregnant with their first child, and the third when they were beginning to grow apart.
| Features | Director Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Previews | | Restoration Comparison | | Scene Selection | | Theatrical Trailer |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 11/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 111 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1967 | | Catalog ID: 2230812 | | UPC: 00024543208129 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1968) | | | Frederic Raphael, Nominee, Best Story & Screenplay | |
British Academy Awards (1968) | | | Frederic Raphael, Nominee, Best British Screenplay | |
Golden Globe (1968) | | | Audrey Hepburn, Nominee, Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy | | | Henry Mancini, Nominee, Best Original Score |
| Memorable Quotes| "Howard, you're the largest pocket of untapped natural gas known to man."----Mark Wallace (Albert Finney) to Howard Maxwell Manchester (William Daniels) |
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| | Professional Reviews | USA Today
"...[A] chic '60s time capsule..." 11/05/1993 p.3DEntertainment Weekly
"[With] Hepburn, heart-stoppingly gorgeous but also giving the strongest, most adult performance of her career..." -- Grade: A 11/04/2005 p.61 VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever 8 of 10
After over a decade of marriage, Albert Finney and Audrey Hepburn look back and find only fragments of their relationship. Mancini score adds poignancy to the couple's reflections on their stormy life. Touching and well-acted.
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