The Trip, at Miami Beach Cinematheque and Cosford Cinema

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Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon in The Trip.

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Miami Beach Cinematheque

1130 Washington Ave.
Miami Beach, FL 33139

Category: Community Venues

Region: Out of Town

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Bill Cosford Cinema

1111 Memorial Drive
Coral Gables, FL 33146

Category: Movie Theaters

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Starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Written by Steve Coogan and Margo Stilley. 107 minutes. Not rated. July 15 through 19 at Miami Beach Cinematheque, 1130 Washington Ave., Miami Beach; 305-673-4567; mbcinema.com. July 15 through 17 at Cosford Cinema, 1111 Memorial Dr., Coral Gables; 305-284-4861; cosfordcinema.com.

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Cobbled together from a six-part BBC2 miniseries telecast last fall, The Trip is a talkative faux-reality road film largely improvised by funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, playing versions of themselves, under the direction of Michael Winterbottom. When his American girlfriend cancels, Coogan — who has supposedly been hired by the Observer as a celebrity food critic — invites frenemy Brydon to accompany him on a weeklong eating tour of Yorkshire and Lake District restaurants. The verbal jousts are droll and the countryside is splendid, although the food — an endless succession of fussy little presentations — might be an acquired taste. "Duck-fat lolly," Coogan says thoughtfully as he sucks on some sort of caramelized dessert. Brydon calls his buddy ""the king of understatement," but it's Coogan who has the more comic persona. Competitive, vain, and anxious, he complains of losing movie roles to Michael Sheen and dreams that Ben Stiller is summoning him to Hollywood. Verbal as it is, The Trip could almost work as a radio show. Set pieces include a Wimbledon-worthy volley of Woody Allen one-liners and, most touching, a lusty rendition of ABBA's classic break-up song "The Winner Takes It All." Visits to cottages that once sheltered Wordsworth and Coleridge inspire the lads to declaim poetry. Adding to the romantic aspect, Coogan often strides the moors in search of a cell-phone signal to call his girlfriend, while the domesticated Brydon imitates Hugh Grant's voice to engage in mild phone sex with his wife.