Life is a beach.
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
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Classical in form, effortless, comic and unpretentious.
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
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Cast
- John CandyJack Chester
- Richard CrennaAl Pellet
- Rip TornScully
- Karen AustinSandy Chester
- Kerri GreenJennifer Chester
- John LarroquetteDon Moore
- Joey LawrenceBobby Chester
- Aubrey JeneLaurie Chester
- Dick Anthony WilliamsDan Gardner
- Richard HerdAngus MacLachlan
Crew
- Carl ReinerDirector
- Mark ReismanWriter
- Jeremy StevensWriter
- Ric WaiteDirector of Photography
- Alan SilvestriOriginal Music Composer
- Bud MolinEditor
- George ShapiroProducer
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