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| Spanish | Vacaciones de verano |
| Directed by | Santiago Segura |
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| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia |
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| Country | Spain |
| Language | Spanish |
Summer Vacation [1] (Spanish: Vacaciones de verano) is a 2023 Spanish comedy film directed by Santiago Segura which stars Segura, Leo Harlem, Cristina Gallego, and Patricia Conde.
In Summer vacation time, divorced buddies Óscar and Félix apply for a temporary job as children's entertainers at an hotel, bringing in their own children so they can manage work-life interface. [2] [3]
The film was written by Marta González de Vega and Santiago Segura. [3] It is a Bowfinger International Pictures and Chapuzas Audiovisuales AIE production, with the participation of Netflix and Atresmedia, in association with Mogambo. [2] It was shot in Tenerife in late 2022. [4]
Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment Iberia, [2] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 6 July 2023. It made a €1,079,026 gross in its opening weekend (good for a 2nd position at the Spanish box office after Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny ), with a total of €1,296,375 (198,140 admissions) adding Thursday 6 figures. [5]
Rubén Romero Santos of Cinemanía rated the film 3 out of 5 stars, underscoring it to be Santiago Segura's most successful film in a long time. [6]
Fausto Fernández of Fotogramas rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, deeming it to be perhaps the best-rounded of the Santiago Segura films belonging to the director's all-audience era. [7]
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