The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Original title: O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias
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7.3/10
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A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in 1970, when the World Cup coincides with political crackdowns by the military dictatorship.
- Awards
- 32 wins & 38 nominations
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBrazil's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards. The film was one of the nine films that made it to the January's short list but failed to secure the nomination.
- GoofsWhen Mauro arrives in São Paulo, he looks out to the car window noticing the tall buildings - the known Banespa Tower (now Farol Santander) and the Marchetti building, located in the city's downtown. Not only it's a shot on reverse but completely unpractical to the place he and his parents were going - Bom Retiro is located below downtown - and the particular area they were going, shot from right to the left, is completely off traffic since it's an one-way street that only moves from left to right.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Por Dentro do Filme 'O Ano em que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias' (2006)
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"O Ano em Que Meus Pais Saíram de Férias" is the most important Brazilian export of 2007, and as many said, a strong contender for the Academy Awards. The movie was beautiful: the cinematography, the music, the actors. The scenery was perfectly created and it looked perfectly like São Paulo and Brazil in the 1970's. With all that, the movie still failed to excite me or create any major emotion. The movie was very flat, and ran without a climax. Plus I wasn't very familiar with the 70's history, and the fact that the movie doesn't go deeper into the issues of the time got me a bit confused. I recommend a little researching prior to watching the movie. Overall, the movie was OK, but the characterization should have been developed further and some kind of bigger conflict should have brought excitement to the movie.
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Box office
- Budget
- R$3,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $807,117
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $80,655
- Feb 17, 2008
- Gross worldwide
- $3,218,370
- Runtime1 hour 50 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006) officially released in India in English?
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