{"id":812895,"date":"2015-01-21T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/4-travel-themed-films-to-see-at-sundance-2015\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T11:02:08","slug":"4-travel-themed-films-to-see-at-sundance-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/4-travel-themed-films-to-see-at-sundance-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Travel-Themed Films to See at Sundance 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"4 Travel-Themed Films to See at Sundance 2015\" src=\"\/going-places\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/2015\/1\/shutterstock_70412155.jpg\" alt=\"4 Travel-Themed Films to See at Sundance 2015\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sundance Film Festival is on again, bringing Hollywood glamour to an otherwise quiet mountain town in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/cheap-flights\/utah-ut-united-states-deals\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a>. Whether you\u2019re an indie film insider attending this famous festival or a movie buff eager to find out what this year\u2019s breakout must-see movies coming out of Sundance will be, see what you think about this list travel oriented flicks playing at this year\u2019s event (synopses from<a href=\"http:\/\/sundance.org\" target=\"_blank\"> the Sundance website<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Walk in the Woods <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, A Walk in the Woods tells the tale about an aging travel writer who \u201csets out to hike the 2,100-mile-long Appalachian Trail with a long-estranged high school buddy\u201d learning \u201cthat some roads are better left untraveled.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Grandma<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Featuring \u201cLily Tomlin\u2019s famously impeccable timing and whiplash wit,\u201d this buddy movie with a twist is about Elle (Tomlin\u2019s character) who hits the road with her granddaughter in a vintage Dodge dropping in on old friends and old flames and \u201crattling skeletons and digging up secrets.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Operation Arctic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operation Arctic is a Sundance Kids selection and features \u201cwonderful performances\u201d from a young cast and beautiful cinematography shot in Norway. The film\u2019s plot centers around Julia, a shy 13-year-old who along with her eight-year old twin siblings \u201cends up lost on a remote Arctic island with a limited food supply, wild animals, fierce weather, and no way to communicate with the mainland. Though the twins look to Julia for survival skills, all three must rise to the challenge and work together in hopes of being rescued.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>Seoul Searching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The scene is Seoul in 1986. A \u201craucous gaggle of Korean teenagers spill out of the Gimpo airport and onto buses that transport them to a location just outside the city.\u201d There, these high schoolers sent from all over the world \u2013 the U.S., Mexico, London, and Hamburg \u2013 participate in a government-sponsored summer program to help them connect with their heritage. Based on filmmaker Benson Lee\u2019s own experience as a teenager, \u201cSeoul Searching pays homage to the John Hughes dramedies of the 1980s and adds its own flair of Korean drama to create a fresh, original film. With spot-on costuming, an &#8217;80s-infused soundtrack, and an exciting all-Asian cast just waiting to be discovered, Seoul Searching delivers an extended remix of heartfelt nostalgia, hilarity, and fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundance Film Festival is on again, bringing Hollywood glamour to an otherwise quiet mountain town in Utah. Whether you\u2019re an indie film insider attending this famous festival or a movie buff eager to find out what this year\u2019s breakout must-see movies coming out of Sundance will be, see what you think about this list travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-tips-intel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98895987,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812895\/revisions\/98895987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}