The Leisure Seeker [Movie Tie-in]: A Novel
NowĀ a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics
Official Selection
Toronto Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
āThe Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.āāBooklist, starred review
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.
With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for secondsāeven when everyone says you can't.
NowĀ a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics
Official Selection
Toronto Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
āThe Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.āāBooklist, starred review
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.
With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for secondsāeven when everyone says you can't.
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NowĀ a major motion picture starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, coming January 2018 from Sony Pictures Classics
Official Selection
Toronto Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
āThe Leisure Seeker is pretty much like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed.āāBooklist, starred review
The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck geezers" kidnap themselves from the adult children and doctors who seem to run their lives and steal away from their home in suburban Detroit on a forbidden vacation of rediscovery.
With Ella as his vigilant copilot, John steers their '78 Leisure Seeker RV along the forgotten roads of Route 66 toward Disneyland in search of a past they're having a damned hard time remembering. Yet Ella is determined to prove that, when it comes to life, you can go back for secondsāeven when everyone says you can't.
