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Family Holidays

Family Holidays

R 2014 · 90 min · ★ 6.8 · Comedy

The Kellys are a bourgeois family that have fallen into hard times. Deprived of the bragging rights of their typical summer vacation at a posh Chilean beach resort town, they pretend that they are instead going to Brazil for their vacation. They feign leaving on vacation but instead spend the time locked up at home and avoiding the suspicions of a nosy neighbor.

Directed by Ricardo Carrasco · Written by Rodrigo Antonio Norero

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