Saint-Jacques… La Mecque (2005)

Three squabbling siblings learn that they inherit their mother's estate only if they make the three-month pilgrimage to Compostela together and on foot. Coline Serreau's French comedy then fills out the group with a guide, a woman rebuilding her life after cancer and a young man who has been told he is walking to Mecca. Choose it for the group dynamics anyone who has walked with strangers will recognize: the sulking, the shifting alliances and the odd tenderness that arrives once nobody can storm off. The broad comedy and predictable turns are the price of its warmth.