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College Road Trip

2008 · 83 min

A goofy, good-natured road comedy full of slapstick detours and warm father-daughter moments, easy to watch with family.

Directed by
Roger Kumble
Genres
Comedy, Family, Action
Tagline
They can't get there fast enough.
Overview
When an overachieving high school student decides to travel around the country to choose the perfect college, her overprotective cop father also decides to accompany her in order to keep her on the straight and narrow.

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Directed by
Roger Kumble
Genres
Comedy, Family, Action
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Tone
  • lightstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • coming-of-age
  • identity
  • freedom
Places
  • road trip
  • suburbs
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance1
Tension2
Darkness1
Complexity2
Emotional weight3

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Genres
comedy, family, action, adventure
Directed by
Roger Kumble
Written by
Carrie Evans, Cinco Paul, Emi Mochizuki, Ken Daurio
Starring
Martin Lawrence, Raven-Symoné, Kym Whitley, Brenda Song, Margo Harshman, Donny Osmond, Molly Ephraim, Will Sasso
Music
Edward Shearmur
Cinematography
Theo van de Sande
Runtime
83 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English, Spanish

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