2015 · comedy · adventure
Vacation
Directed by John Francis Daley1h 39m2015
Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Our read: Vacation (2015) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / adventure, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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