PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION

Name: PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
Item: PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION
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"‘On Vacation, You Can Be Anyone You Want’"

Family Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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What You Need To Know:

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, streaming on Netflix, follows Poppy, a free-spirited travel writer, and Alex, a teacher who prefers to plan things out. The pair met in college and, while they initially clashed over their differences, became friends and made a pact to take a trip together every year. However, after a disastrous trip to Italy, the pair stopped talking. A wedding in Barcelona gives them the chance to reconnect and decide whether their feelings for each other are worth risking their friendship.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION is a charming romantic comedy, based on the book of the same name, that fans of the genre will love. Leads Emily Bader and Tom Blyth have great chemistry and are supported by a stellar comedic cast that includes Molly Shannon, Lukas Gage, and Alan Ruck. The movie has a light moral worldview, emphasizing strong friendships and family relationships, but also features strong language, light alcohol and drug use, a sex scene, and a same-sex kiss. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for younger viewers and sensitive adults.

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

A light moral worldview, depicting strong friendships and family relationships throughout, a strong romantic worldview where characters follow the wind and do what they want with no strong indication toward doing the right thing, pro homosexual content including a same sex marriage and a same-sex kiss;

Foul Language:

25 obscenities, including one “F” word and 21 “sh” words, and 16 profanities, including 12 OMGs;, and one instance of Jesus’s name said in vain;

Violence:

No violence;

Sex:

One scene depicting two unmarried characters having sex, just short of showing intercourse but nothing explicit is shown. In another scene, a character is worried she is pregnant, implying she has had premarital sex with her current boyfriend. Two characters almost kiss, even though they are both in relationships with other people at the time. There is a same-sex wedding in the movie, with one same-sex kiss; parents gift their child a pack of condoms and discuss sexual topics;

Nudity:

Several scenes of naturalistic nudity, ex. In the shower, upper male nudity at the pool/beach, but nothing explicit is shown. Full rear male and female nudity, nearly full male frontal nudity, characters skinny-dip, but nothing is shown;

Alcohol Use:

Many scenes featuring social drinking at bars, restaurants, and a wedding, sometimes to excess;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

Two characters smoke marijuana in one scene; parents gift their child drugs, and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Two characters lie about being married and on their honeymoon to receive free food, one character lies to another about a work trip, but later comes clean and apologizes, a character recalls being bullied in high school after a boy spread a false rumor about her performing a sexual act.

More Detail:

In PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION, streaming on Netflix, Poppy and Alex, best friends who had a falling out years before, reconnect at a destination wedding. Will the pair finally confess their feelings to each other, or are Poppy and Alex destined to always be in two different places?

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION follows Poppy, a free-spirited travel writer, and Alex, an organized teacher. The pair met in college and, while they initially clashed over their differences, soon became close friends.

They make a pact to spend a week together every year, going on trips around the world, whether it’s a camping trip to the Canadian wilderness or a fun round of sightseeing in New Orleans. However, real life intrudes, and after a disastrous trip to Italy, Poppy and Alex stop talking.

Two years later, they attend the same wedding in Barcelona. Forced to face their problems and talk about what drove them apart years before, Poppy and Alex must decide if they are willing to risk their friendship to pursue a romance — and figure out what that means for the two wildly different lives they lead.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION is a charming romantic comedy, based on the bestselling novel of the same name. Leads Emily Bader and Tom Blyth have excellent chemistry, and the supporting cast, like Molly Shannon, Lukas Gage, and Alan Ruck, bring plenty of laughs.

PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION has a light moral worldview, with strong friendships and family relationships depicted throughout. However, the movie contains strong language, some light alcohol and drug use, nudity, a sex scene, and a same-sex kiss. MOVIEGUIDE® advises extreme caution for younger viewers and sensitive adults.

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