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Plot summary
Tina shares a house in Redditch with her mother, who has never forgiven her for losing the family dog, Poppy. Chris, Tina's boyfriend, is devoted to caravans and hopes to make it as a writer, and he takes her away on a road trip in his caravan so that she can see the world he comes from. Her mother objects to the plan. Their first stop is the National Tramway Museum, where Chris tells a man off for dropping litter. At a caravan park they fall in with Janice and Ian, whose dog Banjo looks like Poppy, and when Janice mentions that Ian has had a book published, Chris grows jealous.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sightseers (2012)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Sightseers began seven years earlier as a stage routine in which Alice Lowe and Steve Oram played innocent campers who slowly revealed themselves as serial killers. Their short film pitch was repeatedly turned down for being too dark until Lowe sent the link to Edgar Wright, whose interest got Big Talk to greenlight the feature with Wright as executive producer.
- To prepare, Alice Lowe and Steve Oram researched horror literature and took a caravanning holiday in character, bringing a cameraman along, to the locations that would later appear in the film.
- Ben Wheatley said the locations were very helpful even after the filmmakers explained the nature of the film, because they wanted to make sure the places were not the butt of jokes.
