Return of The Grownups

Wasn't this to be the Summer of the Kid? Well, surprise! Adults are going to the movies.

It was a rainy Friday afternoon in the New Jersey resort town of Stone Harbor, so an extended family of eight went to see The Fugitive. During the scary parts, Elizabeth, 85, clutched the hand of her daughter-in-law Mary, 48, who enjoyed the movie's gloss on a favorite old TV show. The cat-and-mouse interplay of hunter and haunted had Trish, 26, scraping the polish off her fingernails. Craig, 12, appreciated the cinematic ingenuity of the mise en scene. And everybody loved the train wreck. The whole family had a good time at the movies. Maybe they'll all do it again real...

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