PREVIEW: Vacation Friends (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

John Cena (The Suicide Squad), Lil Rel Howery (Get Out), Yvonne Orji (Night School), Meredith Hagner (Palm Springs), Lynn Whitfield (Stepmom), Robert Wisdom (Mighty Joe Young), Tawny Newsome (Einstein’s God Model), Kamal Bolden (The Night Before), Barry Rothbart (The Wolf of Wall Street), Anna Maria Horsford (Along Came a Spider)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Clay Tarver (film debut), director, writer; Tom Mullen (film debut), Tim Mullen (film debut), Jonathan Goldstein (Horrible Bosses) and John Francis Daley (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone), writers; Timothy M. Bourne (Drumline) and Todd Garner (Playing with Fire), producers; Tim Suhrstedt (Idiocracy), cinematographer; Evan Henke (Office Christmas Party), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Marcus (Howery) and Emily (Orji) are a straight-laced couple who, during a trip to a Mexican resort, befriend wild and thrill-seeking partiers Ron (Cena) and Kyla (Hanger), with whom they have a week filled of fun and debauchery. Months later, Marcus and Emily are horrified when Ron and Kyla suddenly show up unannounced to their wedding…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

John Cena and Lil Rel Howery join forces for this raunchy and unpredictable comedy that disproves once and for all the notion that what happens on holiday, stays on holiday.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 27TH AUGUST 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON DISNEY+ STAR

 

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