Andy Brewster (Seth Rogen) is ready to hit the road and peddle his new cleaning invention, but a visit to widowed mum Joyce (Barbra Streisand) earns him an extra bit of baggage for the journey.
She tells him about her long-lost love, who Andy discovers now lives in San Francisco. In a bid to get his mum back in the dating game after years on the sidelines, he invites her on his trip across America but, with all the bickering, molly-coddling and nagging, will Andy last the distance and get his mum to the surprise reunion of a lifetime?
After mining the funnies out of marriage in her two previous features, 27 Dresses and The Proposal, director Anne Fletcher sticks with a family theme here. A deadpan Rogen and a zealous Streisand combine well to create a charismatic pairing, who carry the sometimes schmaltzy story to a warming finale.
The Guilt Trip is a Film programme that first aired in 2012 and has been classified a 12 certificate.
