The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation.The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation.The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation.
Meredith Baxter
- Elyse Keaton
- (as Meredith Baxter Birney)
Lockwood West
- Professor Hardy
- (as Harry Lockwood West)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis was one out of four films with Michael J. Fox in them that came out in 1985. (Family Ties Vacation, Teen Wolf, Poison Ivy, and Back to the Future.)
- Quotes
Mallory Keaton: Do they have toast in England?
Alex P. Keaton: Yeah, I think a boat load just came in this morning.
Mallory Keaton: Alex, you don't have to be so sarcastic, okay? We are in a foreign country. We don't know for sure if they have toast here.
Alex P. Keaton: Mallory, the United States was started by people from England. They had toast before we did.
Mallory Keaton: Oh yeah? Who invented it?
Alex P. Keaton: Alfred Toast.
- Alternate versionsThe original movie has been separated into 4 parts for airing in syndication. Interestingly, at least on TBS, the wrong opening credits are used for these (from the final seasons, where Brian Bonsall is credited as Andrew; he wasn't even on the trip), and the syndicated versions air after the last episodes of the TV run are shown, instead of during the middle of the run.
- ConnectionsReferences A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Featured review
Imagine if you took a cartoon and put it in the "real world." You know how awkward that is?
That's what it felt like watching this thing. It's really bad. The hammy schtick and jokes, which work brilliant in three camera is a disaster here. Mostly because a lot of their jokes work in 2- shots. The cut to reaction seems so weird in a single camera. I see that it's trying to be some type of Cary Grant American in Europe comedy feel, but it just didn't fit. They could've named it "Monty Python Meets The Keatons."
What makes this movie a shame, isn't that the material is so blatantly ripped from their own sit- com, it's that you expect these things at the END of a series run, not at the beginning.
One last thing, if you're determined to watch it, ask yourself this "What the hell is Jennifer doing the entire time?" If you can find a purpose for her being their (story/plot wise) please tell me.
That's what it felt like watching this thing. It's really bad. The hammy schtick and jokes, which work brilliant in three camera is a disaster here. Mostly because a lot of their jokes work in 2- shots. The cut to reaction seems so weird in a single camera. I see that it's trying to be some type of Cary Grant American in Europe comedy feel, but it just didn't fit. They could've named it "Monty Python Meets The Keatons."
What makes this movie a shame, isn't that the material is so blatantly ripped from their own sit- com, it's that you expect these things at the END of a series run, not at the beginning.
One last thing, if you're determined to watch it, ask yourself this "What the hell is Jennifer doing the entire time?" If you can find a purpose for her being their (story/plot wise) please tell me.
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Семейные узы едут в Лондон
- Filming locations
- Wrotham Park Hertfordshire, England, UK(Randall Hall)
- Production companies
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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