Other Titles • Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation • Mr. Hobbs macht Ferien (1962)
Synopses for Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
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When world-weary St. Louis banker and father Roger Hobbs James Stewart suggests to his wife Maureen O'Hara that the two of them enjoy a quiet vacation at the beach, she thinks a family reunion is a better idea. So, they compromise - and no less than ten family members show up on their not-so-romantic getaway! From antiquated plumbing in their rental house to fueds between their married daughter and her husband to out-of-control kids and crazed teenage love, it begins to seem to Hobbs that getting back to the daily grind might bring relief from this "vacation."
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James Stewart reunites with his Harvey director, Henry Koster, in this 1962 comedy, which is charming enough even though it doesn't seem quite up to the level of talent involved. (The screenwriter is the legendary Nunnally Johnson--writer and director of The Three Faces of Eve, among many other titles--and the music is by Henry Mancini.) But it is pleasant, summery entertainment with Stewart and his screen wife, Maureen O'Hara, taking their urban family to a crumbling, seaside house for a vacation. The film was calculated to pull in older fans with Stewart as well as draw in a younger crowd that would enjoy the fairly extensive beach scenes with pop-star Fabian. Stewart is deft with the easy jokes about bad plumbing and such, and golden in several nice moments where he gets to play an attentive dad to his kids. --Tom Keogh
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Thanks to his family, Mr. Hobbs's life is about to get a lot more irritating.
His insistent wife, Peggy, convinces the fussy Midwest banker to pack up the kids and head for the Pacific shore for a summer vacation. In addition to their four children, the Hobbses also bring along their two married daughters' husbands and two grandchildren.
They arrive at a spooky cottage equipped with a mousetrap-like water pump. Then things turn worse. One daughter's egghead spouse splits. The other's horny hubby starts flirting with a babe on the beach. The youngest daughter has an inferiority complex due to her braces, and Hobbs' son thinks Dad's a dork.
Eventually Hobbs quits complaining about his clan and realizes Peggy's homilies about familial togetherness actually make sense.
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