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What We Did on Our Holiday

What We Did on Our Holiday

Comedy · 2014

Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...

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What We Did on Our Holiday

2014 Comedy 1h 35m

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6.7 / 10

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Doug and Abi and their three children travel to the Scottish Highlands for Doug's father Gordie's birthday party. It's soon clear that when it comes to keeping a secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability...

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Directed by

Andy Hamilton · Guy Jenkin

Written by

Guy Jenkin · Andy Hamilton

Rosamund Pike

Rosamund Pike

Abi McLeod

David Tennant

David Tennant

Doug McLeod

Billy Connolly

Billy Connolly

Gordie McLeod

Ben Miller

Ben Miller

Gavin McLeod

Amelia Bullmore

Amelia Bullmore

Margaret McLeod

Emilia Jones

Emilia Jones

Lottie McLeod

Bobby Smalldridge

Bobby Smalldridge

Mickey McLeod

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Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Popcorn Loyalist

“It owes the canon nothing.”

The movie pursues immediacy and audience pleasure without begging institutions to certify its worth.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Easy pleasure, short half-life.”

It moves efficiently through the moment but offers little reason to keep arguing once the credits end.