The Vacationers
This movie...
• 20 minutes
• Shot over 3 days in Spring 2011
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The Vacationers follows Alex, a twenty-something-year-old husband and father, who's fed up with his life.
In late 2010, I was lamenting to my friend (and Harry Putter co-writer) Ben how long it had been since I'd produced a movie of my own. He suggested I write something in a similar vein to the then-popular "It Gets Better" videos, targeted at GLBT youth. I liked the idea.
Literally less than a week later, and completely out of the blue, a former college classmate Facebooked me asking if he could write a script for me. The timing was perfect. I gave Logan a starting point and he dove in, churning out script revisions every couple days. Teaming up with the folks I'd joined for last summer's 48 Hour Film Project, we had a short period of pre-production, then shot the movie over 3 days in March and May of 2011. We finished editing, color correction, and soundtrack in 2013.
Far from the comedy that defined my Putter spoofs, The Vacationers is a darker version of It's a Wonderful Life. For me, the take-away message is a reminder that "to the world you may be one person, but to one person, you may be the world."
