“The Time of Their Lives,” the road trip comedy starring Joan Collins and Pauline Collins, has received distribution via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the U.K., Australia, France, and Nordics for 2017, Variety has revealed.

As we previously reported, the film is described as a road trip comedy with “former Hollywood siren Helen (Joan Collins), who is determined to gatecrash her ex-lover’s funeral, and escapes her London retirement home with the help of Priscilla (Pauline Collins), a downtrodden English housewife trapped in an unhappy marriage. Franco Nero (‘Django Unchained’) plays Alberto, a famous and eccentric Italian painter. Alberto becomes entangled with the two ladies and inspired by their madness, joins their road trip and, in turn, becomes part of an uneasy love triangle between Helen and Priscilla, who both vie for his attentions.”

Joan Collins is of course most well known for her role on the long-running television series “Dynasty.” She also appears in “Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie,” currently in theaters. Pauline Collins (no relation) hit the scene by starring in Britain’s much beloved dramedy “Upstairs Downstairs.”

“I was very excited by the script,” Joan Collins told Screen Daily. “There are very few roles today for women aged over 45, let alone over 65. The fact that it’s a buddy movie along the lines of ‘Thelma and Louise,’ with a hint of ‘The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,’ really interested me. People are sick to death of watching shoot ’em ups, blood and gore and explosions — those films for the 12–30 year-old market. It’s time producers realized that people also want to see stories about mature adults, not only teenagers.”

The film was directed by Roger Goldby (“Call the Midwife”) and produced by Sarah Sulick.

“‘The Time of Their Lives’ draws on both the ongoing popularity of buddy movies and the public’s growing appetite for poignant comedies led by an more mature cast,” said Sulick.

No word yet on U.S. distribution.