Things get weird on a family vacation to the West Texas desert
Directed by Brett Wagner. Starring Jason Butler Harner, Virginia Kull, Erica Ash, David Sullivan, Grant Garrison, Nick Masciangelo, Gavin Mathews, Grae Carter Mathews, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, Delilah Wagner, Zoe Wagner.It’s a simple weekend away: The Talbotts, Georgia and Mac , invite their old friends from New Jersey, Melanie and Cory Price , to stay at their place just outside of Big Bend.
Of course, trips like this are never that simple, and the biggest perils are never some venomous crittur hanging out under a rock. They’re the emotional landmines that everyone packed in their luggage, the dangers that everyone recognizes and everyone jokes about but no one wants to take too seriously. It’s the rumbling boiler in the basement, the car carrying eight people but only seats and seatbelts enough for seven.
There’s a level of small, intimate observation behind the ticking clock tension that evokes the nonjudgmental morality tales of Éric Rohmer. But the French director concentrated on twentysomething angst, and here the kids complicate everything. Every judgment has to revolve around parenthood, and Wagner somehow finds the space betweenLike that Jane and Henry Fonda classic, this is also a family affair, with Wagner’s daughters playing the Price’s kids.
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