Production Companies RV Camping Productions Ltd., Red Wagon Productions, IMF Internationale Medien und Film GmbH & Co. 3. Produktions KG, Intermedia Films, Relativity Media
Sonnenfeld could also not resist the idea of mining the comic potential in what could easily be a horror story. “My theory has always been the worse the experience, the better it is when you describe it in retrospect. I passed four kidney stones. Each one was horrible, but those stories are some of my best and funniest stories. Getting a flat tire on the Long Island Expressway on Thanksgiving – that’s a good story, but again, in retrospect. RV is about a family that has sort of drifted apart — even though they all still live together. They’ve all got their own MP3 players, their own computers. So even when they’re in the same room, they’re apart mentally. Forcing them to be together in this recreational vehicle at first threatens to make them grow even farther apart, but their near-disastrous experiences bring them back together in a hilarious fashion. It’s through adventure and adversity that they are forced to do things together as a family again and to reconnect.”
Also, Sonnenfeld adds, the Munros’ shared experiences are what comes to define them as a family. “When you’re all driving together and you get a flat tire, and you’re all standing on the side of the road in the rain laughing because there’s no jack and dad is using his Tool Man screwdriver to try and change the tire – that’s something you remember for the rest of your life.”
For the producers, RV is also a movie about community. “As soon as we arrived in the first RV camp, we saw there was a community of people that were having a really good time,” Fisher recalls. “They had blenders and were making margaritas and having parties. We really sensed that the communal life at the RV camp was one of the major draws.”
The experience proved so indelible for Fisher and Wick that they immediately began contemplating a movie that would explore the RV lifestyle. “The idea,” says Wick, “was to take a family with all kinds of issues and problems and let them be worked out within the intimate confines of an RV trip.”
For director Sonnenfeld, the film was a way of creating a story that also reflected his own experiences as a father and husband. He saw RV as a way to incorporate some of his own amusing (again, in retrospect) experiences into a motion picture comedy.
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