Imagine you’ve organized a romantic getaway with your gourmand girlfriend. You want to show her the picturesque part of the country from which you hail. You plan to stay at quaint hotels and eat your way through the Lake District at the finest restaurants. Even better, you’ve managed to get someone else to pay for it by arranging to write about it for a newspaper. Then imagine your girlfriend has decided she needs a “break” from the relationship — and runs off to her native America in proof of her point. Disappointing and disastrous, no? You can’t cancel — that newspaper is counting on you. You ask everyone you know to accompany you, to no avail. In desperation, you call your last resort: a friend you sort of like, sort of don’t. The result is “The Trip,” a comedy about two rivalrous pals touring northern England together. It’s the kind of journey that can bring a pair closer together — or completely tear them apart.
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