Jenkins ultimately doesn't lead her cast (or her audience) towards a worthy payoff, but the trip getting there is unexpected, and, generally speaking, a whole lot of fun.

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My head was filled with images of the trip, so many of them beautiful, unexpected, even contradictory.

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But a trip down the stairs from the first floor reveals an unexpected feature: a putting and chipping green.

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It means that on his first trip outside the U.S., Obama is facing unexpected tensions with instinctive allies and the possibility of being associated with discord and failure.

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