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  • 2008
  • PG
  • City Lights Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2008
  • PG
  • City Lights Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m

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 ...

Directed By: Cao Hamburger

Written By: Adriana Falcão, Claudio Galperin, Bráulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert, Cao Hamburger

  • 2008
  • PG
  • City Lights Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m
  • 2008
  • PG
  • City Lights Pictures
  • 1 h 50 m

The Year My Parents Went on Vacation

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 19 Critic Reviews
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User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 8 User Ratings
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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 ...

Directed By: Cao Hamburger

Written By: Adriana Falcão, Claudio Galperin, Bráulio Mantovani, Anna Muylaert, Cao Hamburger

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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.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
75
What makes this film appealingly honest are its details, not its grand events.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
75
The filmmakers succeed with an unexpected ending. It's as fresh as everything in the movie, which turns out to be about so much more than one youngster's resilience.
By Ruthe Stein FULL REVIEW
70
This nuanced coming-of-age drama by Cao Hamburger exudes warmth without getting mired in nostalgia.
By Andrea Gronvall FULL REVIEW
70
Sensitive, delicate and involving.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
63
One true gem is Daniela Piepszyk, Mauro's teen neighbor, who is a fireball and the leader of the neighborhood gang of boys. You can't take your eyes off her.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
40
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.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Gullane, Caos Produções Cinematográficas, Miravista, Globo Filmes, Lereby Productions, Locall, Petrobrás, Teleimage
Release Date Feb 15, 2008
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating PG
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Awards

Cinema Brazil Grand Prize
• 3 Wins & 13 Nominations
Prêmio Guarani
• 3 Wins & 11 Nominations
Prêmio Qualidade, Brazil
• 7 Nominations

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