Joan Collins is an ex-Hollywood star who enlists the help of a new friend to journey from London to France...
Joan Collins is an ex-Hollywood star who enlists the help of a new friend to journey from London to France for her ex-lover's funeral.
Determined to gatecrash her ex-lover's funeral on glamorous French hideaway Ile-de-Re, former Hollywood siren Helen (Collins) escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a repressed English housewife stuck in a bad marriage. Pooling their limited resources, they hit the road together by coach, ferry, car and foot in a race to get to the funeral on time, becoming entangled in a love triangle with a reclusive French millionaire (Franco Nero) along the way.
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18 %22 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
46 %88 reviewsAudience score rating
"Goldby's film does ... prove that both Collinses should have been better used over the years, even as it slightly misuses them itself."
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Variety
Variety"Should be like a 'Shirley Valentine' sequel, but falls a little flat."
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Time Out
Time Out"The year's first entry in the so-bad-it's-good list is The Time of Their Lives, a dramedy starring Joan Collins that had me in fits of unstoppable giggles."
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The Times
The Times"The whole enterprise feels like a ten bob knock-off, or a would-be remake that couldn't nab the rights."
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The Telegraph
The Telegraph"There is a creeping and depressing awfulness to this sentimental silver-years comedy, whose silly and twee style of humour and cardboard characterisation jar with its strained moments of attempted poignancy."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Writer-director Roger Goldby (Call the Midwife, Hustle) can't really escape his TV roots in this melodramatic farce."
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StuffThe Time of Their Lives | Details
- Rating
- 12A, infrequent strong language, drug misuse
- Runtime
- 104
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- UK
