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Director:
Will Mackenzie
Writers:
Gary David Goldberg (writer)
Marc Lawrence (writer)
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Release Date:
23 September 1985 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family more
Plot:
The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation. | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Decent enough more (2 total)

Cast

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Meredith Baxter ... Elyse Keaton
Michael Gross ... Steven Keaton

Michael J. Fox ... Alex P. Keaton

Justine Bateman ... Mallory Keaton
Tina Yothers ... Jennifer Keaton
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jean Ainslie ... Tour Guide
Philip Anthony ... Receptionist
Paul Cooke ... Student
John Gillett ... Inspector Wyman
Mark Greenstreet ... Bellboy
Peter Guinness ... Contact Man
Guy Henry ... Jonathan
Richard Huw ... Michael
Philip Hynd ... Markham
Charles Lewsen ... Lord #2
Charles McKeown ... Frederick Weiss

John Moulder-Brown ... William Clive-Hopkins
Derek Nimmo
Ravinder Singh Reyett ... Indian Man (as Ravinder Singh)
Stuart Saunders ... Lord #1
James Saxon ... Luther Broder
Tim Swinton ... Airport Attendant
John Westbrook ... Earl of Cureton
Lockwood West ... Professor Hardy (as Harry Lockwood West)
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK
Company:
Paramount Pictures more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful.
Decent enough, 25 September 2008
5/10
Author: Bjorn (jbjorns) from Iceland

I notice that one reviewer here feels like this TV-movie-of-the-week was not worthy of the series and he also mentions that it's downright silly at times.

I agree with him that the show displays better humor and that this movie is a bit on the silly side. The bumbling spies look especially silly and some of the Keatons look like they're completely different characters here than on the show. Steven, Elyse and Mallory act a lot differently here than we're used to on the show and Jennifer has nothing to do here. The one character who's instantly recognizable is Alex and he carries the movie as far as it can go. The scenes at Oxford university are decent and Alex's inability to blend in with the English crowd is pretty funny at times.

I recently read Michael J. Fox's "Lucky Man" and there he comments on this film. He doesn't think too highly of it and mentions the fact that it was incredibly rushed.

But for a fan of the show I doubt that person will be bored to death. This film is sporadically funny, a bit too silly but for a TV movie of the week I think it's overall decent enough. For a fan of the show that is.

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