Summer Rental (1985)

Directors

Carl Reiner

Cast

Karen Austin, John Candy, Kerri Green, Joey Lawrence, Aubrey Jene, Richard Crenna, Rip Torn, John Larroquette

The story

Overworked air traffic controller Jack Chester is given five weeks' paid leave as an alternative to being fired after nearly causing a mid-air collision on the job and having an outburst over a fly covering a radar blip. He uses this time off to take his wife Sandy and their children; 14-year-old Jennifer, 8-year-old Bobby, and 3-year-old Laurie, on a summer vacation from Atlanta to the fictional Gulf Coast resort town of Citrus Cove, Florida, where they are beset by a barrage of problems. They are first bumped out of the line of an upscale seafood restaurant in favor of arrogant, seven-time local sailing champion Al Pellet, who becomes…

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