RV (2006)

Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.

Director:

Barry Sonnenfeld

Writer:

Geoff Rodkey

Stars:

Robin Williams, Cheryl Hines, Kristin Chenoweth

1 win & 2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Robin Williams	...	Bob Munro
Cheryl Hines	...	Jamie Munro
JoJo	...	Cassie Munro (as Joanna 'JoJo' Levesque)
Josh Hutcherson	...	Carl Munro
Jeff Daniels	...	Travis Gornicke
Kristin Chenoweth	...	Mary Jo Gornicke
Hunter Parrish	...	Earl Gornicke
Chloe Sonnenfeld	...	Moon Gornicke
Alex Ferris	...	Billy Gornicke
Will Arnett	...	Todd Mallory
Tony Hale	...	Frank
Brian Howe	...	Marty
Richard Ian Cox	...	Laird (as Richard Cox)
Erika-Shaye Gair	...	Cassie (age 5) (as Erika-Shayne Gair)
Veronika Sztopa	...	Gretchen

Storyline

The executive Bob Munro is stressed, feeling threatened of losing his job and his lifestyle, since his abusive boss Todd Mallory hired the Stanford's geek Laird to work in their soda's company. Bob has promised his wife Jamie Munro, his teenage daughter Cassie Munro and his young son Carl Munro to spend vacations in Hawaii, but Todd demands him to prepare a presentation and attend a business meeting with the owners of a family company in a merging operation scheduled in the same period. Bob hides the truth to his family, rents a recreational vehicle and tries to convince his dysfunctional family that a road trip to the Colorado Rocky Mountains would be good to bring old values back to their family. After many incidents and while in the trailers parking area, the rookie Bob is helped by the bizarre but friendly Gornicke family. They escape from the Gornickes and initiate a journey of difficulties and leaning, retrieving their forgotten family bonds.

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Plot Keywords:

road trip | vacation | family vacation | family business | homeschooling | 

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Taglines:

On A Family Vacation, No One Can Hear You Scream.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Family

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for crude humor, innuendo and language

Details

Official Sites:

Sony Pictures [United States]

Country:

UK Germany USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 April 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Recreational Vehicle

Filming Locations:

Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$65,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$16,414,767, 30 April 2006, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$71,726,025

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$87,528,173

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Intermedia Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

99 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Throughout the film, a man's humming is used in the score. According to Barry Sonnenfeld, it is actually supposed to be the voice of God. The humming would appear when something disastrous in the movie would happen.

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Goofs

When the family is singing near the beginning of the movie, the wires to Cassie's MP3 player jump around between shots.

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Quotes

Bob Munro: Hey, check this out. It's called the "pop-out."
Bob Munro: [starts to open the pop-out] Whoa, where are you?
[chuckles]
Bob Munro: How cool was that?
Cassie Munro: [sarcastically] Macarena cool.

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Crazy Credits

The Gornickes and the Munroes sing (and rap) "Route 66".

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Connections

References Get Shorty (1995)

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Soundtracks

Cherry Bomb
Written by Kim Fowley and Joan Jett

User Reviews

Not great but good enough

Robin Williams was on sedatives for most of this one, but I think he was trying hard to be the semi-happily married businessman has was casted to be. The kids were just a little over the top but accurate enough examples of their generation. There were great slapstick scenes and some decent toilet humor that owners and renters of RVs can relate to more than others. Avoiding the sweet as pie family was very funny. The way they destroyed the RV at every turn, made me think a little too much about how Robin was going to pay for it especially since he loses his job at the end, but wait!! the little Ben and jerry type owners save the day.

This one was definitely a renter quality not a lets go see a movie quality film.