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Beth O’Leary’s The Road Trip launches on Paramount+
Best on the Box choice for Boxing Day 2024…
Paramount+ launched today The Road Trip, from the makers of The Flatshare and based on the best-selling book by Beth O’Leary, available now in the UK, Canada and Australia.
Filled with wish fulfilment, stunning landscapes, and all the romantic yearning of One Day combined with the fun of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, The Road Tripis a beguiling, modern story about love in your late twenties. A kaleidoscopic rom-com, it explores love in all its guises through a trio of unforgettable relationships: a class-divided romance, a codependent bromance, and a knotty but affectionate sisterly bond.
Addie (Emma Appleton) and her sister Deb (Isabella Laughland) are on a road trip to a friend’s wedding in Spain when they are forced to offer a ride to Addie’s ex Dylan (Laurie Davidson), his irrepressible best friend Marcus (David Jonsson), and complete stranger Rodney (Angus Imrie). With nowhere to hide but a creaky campervan, the group must confront their buried history as secrets and revelations cause many a bump in the road.
Intercutting between the past and present, as the gang embark on their road trip across Spain to the wedding we flash back to Addie and Dylan’s intoxicating love affair two years earlier, which started as a heady holiday romance. Peppered with spiky conflict, alongside surreal escapades, the journey to the wedding proves to be an unforgettable ride.
Everyone in the van has one question on their lips – what exactly was the real reason behind Addie and Dylan’s breakup? Who was to blame? And will their journey back to where they first fell in love bring a happy-ever-after?
“A witty, contemporary, emotionally complex romantic comedy about giving love another shot. Can someone be the right person, just at the wrong time? And is there ever a future in returning to a past love?” – Paramount+
The Road Trip exclusively on Paramount+ from today, December 26th, 2024
