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Rateds: R, Unrated; Genres: Comedy, Drama; With: Hope Davis, Anne Meara, Greg Mottola, Pat McNamara and Parker Posey...

THE DAYTRIPPERS Hope Davis, Anne Meara, Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci (1997, Columbia TriStar, R, $98.99) What a difference a day makes when those little hours are spent driving into Manhattan in a secondhand station wagon with your wacky family to find out why someone named Sandy wrote your husband a love letter. Following the trail of marital infidelity in this eccentric charmer is a very funny ensemble of Long Island misfits headed by Meara, priceless as the mall matriarch, and Davis, who plays the lovely, disbelieving wife. All writer-director Greg Mottola's debut needs is a hip soundtrack instead of the aimless, tepid score, but the rewind-that-scene dialogue is as sharp as the unexpected and satisfying turns on the bumpy road to romantic enlightenment. B


Posted Sep 19, 1997
 

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