What We Did on Our Holiday

27 August 2018

What We Did on Our Holiday 2014

• Director: Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin
• Based on book: no
• Cast: Rosamund Pike, David Tennant, Billy Connolly, Emilia Jones, Bobby Smalldridge, Harriet Turnbull, Ben Miller, Amelia Bullmore, Celia Imrie, Annette Crosbie
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Rosamund Pike – A Long Way Down, The World’s End, An Education, The Libertine, Die Another Day
• David Tennant – Broadchurch, Doctor Who, Fright Night, The Other Bride, United, Hamlet, The Catherine Tate Show, St Trinian’s 2, Secret Smile, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Blackpool, Bright Young Things, Jude, Takin’ over the Asylum
• Billy Connolly – Quartet, The X Files I Want to Believe, White Oleander, Third Rock from the Sun, Mrs Brown
• Emilia Jones - Wolf Hall, Doctor Who, Pirates of the Caribbean
• Ben Miller – Doctor Who, Birthday Girl
• Celia Imrie – Vicious, Hotel Marigold 1 & 2, The Love Punch, Doctor Who, Cranford, St Trinian’s 2, Nanny McPhee, Wah-Wah, Calendar Girls, Daniel Deronda, Absolutely Fabulous, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Star Wars I, Hilary and Jackie, Frankenstein, In the Bleak Midwinter, Upstairs Downstairs
• Annett Crosbie – Into the Woods, Doctor Who, Calendar Girls, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, Shooting Fish, Richard III, Twelfth Night
• Why? David Tennant
• Seen: 24 August 2018      

       When we were in London we saw families with small children and we thought, ‘Oh god, who travels with small children?!’

       This family does. Doug (Tenant) and Abi (Pike) are separated, far from amiably. Doug’s dad Gordy (Connelly) in Scotland is dying of cancer. He’s turning 75 and Doug wants to go to the party, and he begs Abi and the children not to reveal their family problems.

       The drive north is a nightmare. Doug’s brother and sister-in-law are fussy prigs with a teen-age son with problems. Gordy is an eccentric. The three children are precocious, and they love their grandfather.

       That’s all there is to it really. Family stuff.

       I love Tennant in anything and everything and the rest of the cast is good. The Scottish scenery is breath-taking. There are a few tears jerked, a few twists and turns, and all in all it’s a very engaging story and the children are brilliant – though I still would never travel with three children!

4 ½ * of 5