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Tourist Trap (TV)

3.4

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Original title

Tourist Trap

Year

1997

Running time

89 min.

Country

United States

Director

Richard Benjamin

Screenwriter

Andrew Breckman

Cast

Music

Cynthia Millar

Cinematography

Ron Orieux

Producer

Walt Disney Television

Genre

Comedy. Adventure. Kids | Road Movie. Family-friendly. TV Movie

Synopsis

Take Chevy Chase's screwball Vacation movies, plug in Daniel Stern and Julie Hagerty as the parents of two can't-be-bothered kids coerced into holing up in an RV with their well-intentioned dud of a dad and mild-mannered mom for three weeks, and file down the funny parts just enough so no one gets offended, and what you get is Tourist Trap, a likable movie with heart and a message. George Piper (Daniel Stern) is a disgruntled Wisconsin banker and Civil War buff who dreams of tracing the glory-lined path of his great-great-grandfather, the Union hero Jeremiah Piper. Fed up with his fractured home life and unwilling to wait any longer, he packs up his family and the bumbling begins. A fence and a streetlight crumble as he commandeers the RV down his suburban street, and on the highway, two thugs on motorcycles misinterpret the pointy-finger part of "Where Is Thumbkin," a game he's playing to entertain his thoroughly unimpressed family. George's good-guy stripes shine through, though, when the Pipers' picked-up travel companion, a rugged Renaissance man of a doctor with two dreamy kids, shows his true colors on a hiking trip--Mr. L.L. Bean turns out to be a bullying control freak. For all its predictability and tidiness, getting snared into the Tourist Trap feels comfortable; this modern-day Cleaver family's exploits are easy to swallow. Kids 8 and older will giggle over the mindless gags and parent-directed wisecracks. --Tammy La Gorce (from amazon.com)

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Tourist Trap (TV)

1997

Richard Benjamin

3.4

(57)