My wife and I have just watched this film at the cinema. We were both unimpressed by it. He whole concept of Harold's walk was contrived to form the basis of a predictable five hundred mile journey on foot. Why didn't he use his car, the train or his bus pass? That would have made the tedium of the journey too brief. How could he walk that kind if distance in the same pair of every day shoes? The people he meets along the way are too 'convenient' or pointless to the plot. His life's background seen through flash backs if totally predictable as is the ending. Only the superb acting of the leads save the day.
