RV Page #6

Synopsis: 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.
Director(s): Barry Sonnenfeld
Production: Columbia Pictures
  1 win & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.5
Metacritic:
33
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
PG
Year:
2006
99 min
$71,402,035
Website
2,911 Views


why should we change from a local...

...family - Oriented business to become

subsidiary to a national brand?

Yeah. Other than money?

- Right.

- Yeah.

Garry, Larry.

Fifty years ago, if you walked down

any street in America...

...on a warm Monday night -

Thanks, Laird.

- You'd hear I Love Lucy coming out

of every house, on every block.

I'm not speaking about conformity,

i'm talking about "Isn't it great?"

And every once in a while...

...america falls in love with something

together.

That could happen here.

You have a terrific product.

Money aside, how'd

Walter Frederick Morrison feel...

...every time he walked by a park

and he'd see people...

...throwing a Frisbee and the dog

doing all the work?

If Pure Vibe takes Alpine national,

i think we have a chance...

...to let America fall in love

with something again.

What's your hurry? Why don't

you stay and bask in my gratitude?

I gotta get the RV back right now,

todd...

...or I have to pay for a full day.

- Well, just picture me hugging you.

- Thanks.

Officer? Excuse me.

What's going on?

Landslide.

We're diverting through I - 70.

I - 70? It'll take hours. Isn't there

another way around Mount Watson?

Diablo Pass. But you're not

gonna make it in that rig.

Dad was right.

This is really amazing.

Yeah. Poor Dad.

Should we cut this short

and go back?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

You are not on any marked road.

I know that, Lola.

Make a U - Turn

at the next legal opportunity.

I can't.

Squeeze them cheeks

Tighten them buns

Come on now

We having fun

Big old rolling turd coming through

Coming through

- You are not on any marked road.

- Shut up!

Come on, Turd. Keep rolling.

Come on. Come on.

You can do it.

Come on.

Come on. Come on. Come on.

Damn it.

Make a U - Turn

at the next legal opportunity.

Dad's gonna be surprised

we got back so soon.

Yeah.

Who was that maniac?

Oh, God.

Bob?

- Jamie.

- Why are you laying on the ground?

Honey,

there's something I need to tell you.

I need...

Needed a...

Needed a little fresh air.

After my incident.

And how are you now?

Good.

Really good. Good.

Oh, yeah.

- Hello?

- Bob? Bob - Orino? Bobcat?

- Yeah?

- Teeny tiny wrinkle - Dinkle.

Larry wants you

to come back tomorrow...

...and pitch the whole company,

all the employees.

Majority want the merger,

it's a done deal.

- What?

- We don't need him.

I can do this. Give me another chance.

Let me kick this through the uprights!

- I'll do it. I'm there.

- Great. You're spitting on me.

Big old rolling turd coming through

Coming through

Oh, we're on that road

On a big, steaming load

Big old rolling turd coming through

Coming through

Big old rolling turd

Big old rolling turd coming through

Hey, Dad. Maybe we can go

to Yellowstone on the way home.

- I'd love to go to Yellowstone.

- Yeah, Dad. Can we?

Absolutely.

Come on. I wanna show you

something wonderful.

It's hard to forget this place.

My dad was so moved by it

he said:

"You know, a snack stand up here

would do tremendous. "

My mom, always supportive:

"And who's gonna run it, Allan, you?"

My dad:
"Why don't you blow it out

your big, saggy rear end, Ellen. "

Can't buy memories like that.

Or like this.

Hey. You know, I should take the RV

to get the emergency brake fixed...

- ... before we head to L. A.

- Yeah. Good idea.

And you guys don't want

to hang around some dingy garage.

You wait here by the lake,

enjoy the view.

I'll drive to Boulder, be back

in an hour. We'll have a big picnic.

- How about that?

- Okay. Sounds good.

Guys? Tell your dad

what you wanted to tell him.

- Thank you for taking us on this trip.

- Kinko that.

- Better than Hawaii?

- Yeah, better than Hawaii.

Come give big daddy a hug.

Come on.

- Wait.

- Carl, you'll be too big soon.

- Dad.

- Cassie'll be in college.

- Dad!

- What?

The RV's rolling away.

No!

Oh, God, no.

- Oh, no!

- Dad, let it go!

Bob. Bob!

- Bob!

- Mom, what are you doing?

Bob, no!

Go.

Are you crazy? It's a rental.

- How am I gonna get to the meeting?

- What meeting?

The Alpine merger.

Sweetheart, you'll never guess

what happened yesterday.

- You weren't really sick.

- Not really.

This is about work.

You brought us out here because

it was close to a meeting?

- You're getting warmer.

- The Alpine soda merger.

- Bingo.

- So you lied to me...

- ... from the very beginning.

- Since we were first married?

No, since when you

first brought home the RV.

- That time, yeah.

- This has nothing to do...

...with you wanting to be

with your family.

- So you just used us?

- You wouldn't understand, missy.

Oh, I don't know, she's pretty smart.

Why don't you explain it to her.

And Carl too.

Kids...

...life is hard.

Not "The TiVo in my room

is not working" hard.

But "making a living because you're

responsible for people you love" hard.

You know what it's like to be 50,

people are digging a hole...

- ... to bury your career -

- Bob.

All right, that's a little rough.

Cassie,

where do you want to go to college?

Stanford.

Carl, where's that camp you're going?

- Alaska.

- Alaska.

And you, how much do you think

that little fixer - Upper of ours cost?

Who has to ride a $4000 bicycle?

I have to ride a custom bike

because my hips aren't aligned.

Are you happy? Now the kids know

that their old man's a freak.

Listen, I have to get to that meeting,

or I lose my job and we lose a lifestyle.

Let's pull it up two - By - Two,

look for help.

- Carl. Come with me.

- I'm good.

Cassie?

I'm gonna lose my job. I hope the kids

like selling fruit on the freeway.

You know what's scary

is that this is rush hour.

Mom, there's never going to be

any other cars on this road.

Oh, my God.

- Where's your husband?

- Don't ask.

Could you possibly

take us to an airport?

What's all this?

Oh, I gotta study

for my stupid placement test.

Oh, like some sort of

vocational training?

College.

- How old are you?

- Fifteen and a half. I jumped a grade.

Moon, though,

she skipped two grades.

So...

...you guys are smart.

Gonna be unemployed.

I'm gonna have to sell my liver

for cash.

And then he just

rode out of the lake.

Yup. This one really snuck up

and bit me right on the seat - Meat.

I thought Bob was good people.

- Does anybody have a vomit bag?

- Are you sick?

Big time.

Cassie and Earl are making out.

What?

Don't worry.

I got them in the mirror.

Boy don't know

what the hell he's doing.

- Like father, like son.

- Hey.

Listen, I have to admit something.

Bob wasn't the only one

trying to avoid you. I was too.

I don't mean to shock you, but we

ain't everybody's cup of sunshine.

Well, it was you,

but it was mostly us.

You didn't exactly catch

the Munros at their best.

Yeah, see, I had a feeling

you was having troubles.

Yeah, here's the thing.

You start off happy and stupid.

Then you become associates

in the marriage business:

"Did the plumber come?"

"Take Carl to soccer. "

"I'll pick up your dad

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Geoff Rodkey

Geoff Rodkey is an American screenwriter and children's book writer. His most recent book series, The Tapper Twins, began publication in 2015 with The Tapper Twins Go To War (With Each Other). Prior to that, he wrote The Chronicles of Egg, a comedy/adventure series for middle grade readers. His film work includes the Daddy Day Care films, RV, and The Shaggy Dog (2006). He received an Emmy nomination for his contributions to the Politically Incorrect broadcasts from the 1996 Democratic and Republican conventions on Comedy Central. His most recent work is The Story Pirates Present: Stuck in the Stone Age. more…

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