The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Name: The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Genre: Drama
Released: February 15, 2008
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Daniela Piepszyk, Germano Haiut, Michel Joelsas

2008

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City Lights Pictures | Release Date: February 15, 2008 | PG

Starring: Daniela Piepszyk, Germano Haiut, Michel Joelsas

Summary: Set in the turbulent year of 1970, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is a poignant and humorous coming-of-age story. Mauro is a 12-year-old boy thrust into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather's neighbor in SaoSet in the turbulent year of 1970, The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is a poignant and humorous coming-of-age story. Mauro is a 12-year-old boy thrust into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather's neighbor in Sao Paulo. Suddenly finding himself an exile in his own country, Mauro is forced to create an ersatz family from the religiously diverse and colorful population of his new neighborhood. Mauro befriends Hanna, a street-smart tomboy, and develops a crush on Irene, a pretty waitress in a local bar. It is at this local bar that everyone, including Mauro (an ardent soccer fan), gathers to watch iconic star Pelé in the 1970 World Cup championship, which Mauro hopes to watch with his parents if they return to Brazil in time. (City Lights Pictures)… Expand

Director: Cao Hamburger

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: PG

Runtime: 110 min

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Bill White

Most political films involving children are vicious or sentimental. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, set in 1970 when Brazil was under the military dictatorship of General Emilio Medici, is neither. Read full review

M. E. Russell

A sweet, intelligent little movie. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Hamburger's earnest effort offers interesting perspectives on Jewish life in South America's most populous city as well as the fate of political dissidents during a particularly dark period of Brazil's recent past. Read full review

A.O. Scott

The performances are charming and convincing, and Mr. Joelsas does a good job of conveying Mauro’s loneliness and confusion as well as his playfulness. The Year My Parents Went on Vacation may not be terribly fresh or original, but its warm, sweet, nostalgic tone is hard to dislike. Read full review

Deborah Young

Sensitive, delicate and involving. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Writer-director Cao Hamburger works well with child actors and has a spare, unforced style. But too much of this film is desultory and thin. Read full review

Marc Savlov

A curiously unaffecting amalgam of the archetypal coming-of-age tale, here twinned to "outsider" religious overtones (in this case São Paulo's Orthodox Jewish community) and a small but deadly dose of uneasy political melodrama. Read full review

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PaulaV.

Mar 13, 2008

really good movie!! they did more than they could have with the budged...the children dominate the scene completelly!!!

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MichaelS.

Mar 21, 2008

Enjoyable and sentimental, but involving as it blends soccer, jewish life for a boy, and the political and military milieu of 1970 Brazil.

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TiagoM.

May 20, 2008

A wonderful movie, sensitive, funnie, smart e very pleasant.

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DeborahL.

Feb 16, 2008

quietly steals your heart more completely than dramas that are a lot louder

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Iky009

Jan 4, 2014

Cinema nacional está em constante evolução e um dos poucos casos que consegue ótimos resultado esse filme com certeza um dos melhores dos ultimos anos.

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RitB

Apr 7, 2008

Weak film that fails to grab the viewer's interest. The only plus is good camera work.

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