The Leisure Seeker

Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland are an older couple who slip away for one last road trip in their battered RV, she retaining wit, desire and agency throughout. Why it’s here: the plot turns on her husband’s dementia and her own illness — illness-as-arc is a common, limiting pattern for older women on screen; it is included for the performances and the autonomy Mirren’s character keeps to the end.