
Synopsis/Details
After realizing that they are all a bit fried from their idler lives working in the 1880's London clerking industry, three bachelors decide they might be better if they do one of the popular holidays of the day and take a boating trip up the Thames for 2 weeks. The trip becomes a unique travelogue of Thames life coupled with comedic insights into how modern life has spoiled these men who are virtually incapable of taking care of themselves. It is one of the first early modern comic masterpieces that hinges upon adorable yet self absorbed train wrecks.
Story & Logistics
Story Type:
Road Trip
Story Situation:
Daring enterprise
Story Conclusion:
Happy
Linear Structure:
Linear
Moral Affections:
Good Man
Cast Size:
Many
Locations:
Many
Characters
Lead Role Ages:
Male Adult
Hero Type:
Ordinary
Villian Type:
Mother Nature
Stock Character Types:
Village idiot
Advanced
Adaption:
Based on Existing Fiction
Subgenre:
Comedy
Action Elements:
Physical Stunts
Equality & Diversity:
Minority Protagonist
Life Topics:
College/University Life
Time Period:
Machine Age (1880–1945)
Country:
United Kingdom (UK)
Time of Year:
Summer
Illness Topics:
Psychological
Writer Style:
Nora Ephron