To Grandmother's House We Go

Plot synopsis:
Twin Sisters Sarah and Julie (Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen) are two naughty but sweet children who drive their work-obsessed divorced mother, Rhonda (Cynthia Geary), up the wall. They overhear her saying that they are a "handful" and she needs a "vacation". They decide to go give Rhonda what she wants and head off to their great grandmother's house for Christmas. The girls pack up their bags and hop on their bicycles. But there's a problem; they aren't allowed to cross the street on their own. The city bus pulls up and they sneak on through the back door. While riding the bus, an elderly lady informs them that it only goes back and forth between Uptown and Downtown, who also informs them that Edgemont (where Grandma lives) is actually several hours away.
After getting off the bus downtown, they spot Eddie (J. Eddie Peck) (a delivery man who has a crush on their mom) and his truck. They sneak into its back thinking that he will lead them to their great-grandmother's, and only reveal themselves to him because Sarah desperately has to go to the bathroom. He doesn't like kids, but eventually starts to enjoy the girls' company after he figures out that he gets large tips when they deliver packages with him. He even buys them ice cream, as well as a lottery ticket with the numbers of their birth date (6-13-19-8-7). Meanwhile, the babysitter has noticed that the girls were missing and inform Rhonda about it, who in concerns of the news frantically closes her opened 24/7 store, and rushes home to inspect the place and call the police. Just as she is reporting it to the police, Eddie calls her and gives her the good news that he has the girls and how they got there. She agrees to come pick them up, but he agrees to keep them and watch over them promising to bring them back at the end of the day when he has finished, while having the girls believe that he will take them to Grandma's if they help out.
After the day's deliveries are finished, of course against their will, he brings them home even revealing to them that adults will saying anything to get kids to go along. He manages to make it back home telling the girls to go to the back to get their suitcases where he will meet them there. He manages to step out of his truck, only to be attacked by two robbers who steal his truck (with the girls still inside). When the robbers, Harvey and Shirley (Jerry Van Dyke and Rhea Perlman), discover them and why they are there, they decide they can make some money by kidnapping them for ransom. Shirley makes a phone call to Rhonda, asking for a ransom which she calls a "reward" of $10,000 in cash. She also forced Rhonda not to inform the police about it, or else they will permanently disappear with the girls. She tells her that they will make the trade at the ice rink in Edgemont, and that she is to wear a red hat.
Meanwhile, Harvey has begun to like the girls and when he asks Shirley why they never had kids, she replies that it's because they're too busy being criminals, though he agrees that it's just their job rather than a mission, which is how Shirley views it. Eddie and Rhonda reluctantly agree to raise the money for ransom through opening up and selling merchandise which Eddie is supposed to be delivering. However, they succeed as planned and manage to make it close to the threshold of what they're supposed to raise. Eddie gives Rhonda a red cowgirl cat from his stack of cowboy wannabes. They succeed as planned, and however, the pawnshops start noticing the stolen merchandise and reporting to Detective Gremp (Stuart Margolin) and his officials, writing out a warrant for their arrest, mistaking them for the bandits.
Through managing to make it to the skating rink in Edgemont, through many pros and cons between Eddie and Rhonda and the bandits and how the girls run off again over being upset about the truth that Harvey reveals to them, and through runaway horses disguised as reindeer which Santa left after they had a visit with him, and with the help of Eddie's intervention and resilience, Sarah and Julie eventually get to their great-grandmother's house, and then Eddie and Rhonda (who by this time has learned that it was because of her saying she wanted a vacation that the girls ran away, and apologizes to the girls for being upset and making them think like that) get together after he saves the girls. Just as everything becomes okay, and Eddie and Rhonda share a hug, Detective Gremp and one of his officials burst in and handcuff them. They try to reveal to Gremp the truth about what was going on in their side of the story and what Eddie had planned to do to pay it all back, but he immediate denies it still assuming that they are the real bandits because of the whole ransom deal. Harvey's heart goes out to them as Shirley is trying to force them to get away while they have the chance, and thanks to his conscience kicking in, he intervenes and causes the truth to be revealed. They get handcuffed and sent away, with Harvey telling Shirley that if they ever get out, he promises to make her proud by being the worst convict possible.
Through enough persuasion, Gremp agrees to let Eddie, Rhonda, and the girls go all the back to the city with him, so he can be back in time to be able to have a chance at winning the lotto of 1.3 million dollars on a TV show. He promises to split what he wins between Rhonda and the girls, and has the girls spin it for him. Through pure luck, he wins the jackpot. Afterwards, they give all the people their parcels back. At the end everybody is happy spending Christmas together.

Tags: cute

Review:
A Road Trip for a set of adorable twins!.
Julie and Sarah (the Olsens) live with their pretty mother in a large city.
Mom is a single mother who struggles to survive on her salary as a convenience store manager.
One day, the twins hear mother complain to a babysitter that her two girls are a "handful" and that she would love to have a vacation without the duo in tow.
Well, okay.
Julie and Sarah decide to give mother what she wants by going to their grandmother's house in New Jersey.
They pack and run.
Fortunately, they are aided by the help of a delivery man who is sweet on their mom.
Unfortunately, a couple of thieves steal the van with the twins inside.
How can this turn out happily?This is such a sweet little movie.
The very young twins are almost as charming as Shirley Temple and there are two of them!
Mother is pretty, the hero is good looking and funny, and the rest of the cast is quite adept at moving the story along with humor.
Children should be cautioned that not everyone in the world is as friendly or just as the people who aid Julie and Sarah, however.
That said, this is a movie that will please families who are looking for entertainment around the Holidays.
Just board the sleigh with the twins and take a road trip of giggles..
Terrific!
The Olsens' 1st & still a classic!.
I don't care what anyone else says about this movie.
I loved it when I was 10, and I love it now.
The Olsen girls are so talented and absolutely adorable.
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, no exceptions.
Jerry Van Dyke and Rhea Perlman give wonderful performances as the two crooks.
And the cameos by Saget and Loughlin only put the icing on the cake of this lovely, funny, adorable, fun-filled show..
An adorable one !.
Oh i loved this movie.
The twins are so sweet and you can just sense the whole Christmas spirit.
Mary Kate and Ashley had done a great job even though they were just kids.
J. Eddie Peck was really good too.
He completely blended in his role.
The cast was brilliantly picked.
You would never say it is an 1992 movie because compared to some 'nowadays' movies this is a classic !
This was my favorite movie when I was a kid and even though so many years have passed I can still watch it and feel the same way I did when I first saw it.
It's an adorable movie for the whole family to watch and enjoy.
Especially around holidays.I would recommend it to anyone..
A Fun-Filled Family Romp....
if you like that sort of thing.
I suppose this movie is harmless enough, but there is no chance that it will go down in the annals of cinematography as one of the best movies ever.
It is, at best, harmless fluff.To summarize, this movie features the Olsen twins who, at least temporarily, appear to have faded into obscurity.
I suppose this is an example of poetic justice since a lot of the people in "TGHWG" who previously had perfectly viable careers apparently have disappeared from the cultural landscape.Besides these charming cherubs, the movie stars Cynthia Geary, Jerry Van Dyke, Rhea Perlman and others who will probably soon grace the pages of Biography Magazine's "Where Are They Now" section.
Geary plays the twins' ineffectual single mom who can't keep her children from escaping when they think she wants them gone.
A highlight of the film is Geary's dead-on impression of the late Boris Karloff while reading "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" to her children.
Geary's character also apparently spends a good bit of the movie fantasizing about what her life would be like with a working class hero (played to perfection by soap opera star J.
Eddie Peck).Perlman and Van Dyke (in his most challenging role since "Coach") play bumbling crooks who are somewhat harmless, despite the fact that they are, in fact, crooks.
To be honest, crooks don't come any more harmless than these two, who probably couldn't hold up a fleeing turtle.The most unfortunate victim of this movie is perhaps Stuart Margolin, who plays a detective.
Margolin's appearance here is particularly tragic when you consider he was a big star prior to this.
He had even appeared in "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" with John Agar.
Of course, "Women of the Prehistoric Planet" was hardly Oscar material, so perhaps Margolin was also a victim of poetic justice.
Unfortunately for those of us who fondly remember Margolin as Angel on "The Rockford Files", he too seems to have since disappeared off the face of the earth (although rumor has it he is now working at a 7-11 in Des Moines, Iowa under an assumed name).In short, watching "To Grandmother's House We Go" most likely won't do you any harm.
However, it will take up a significant chunk of your life that could have perhaps been better spent doing other things, such as watching reruns of "Gadabout Gaddis" or cleaning your gutters..
This Was A Wonderful Movie!!!!!.
The reason I give this movie a 10 is because it was WONDERFUL!!!!!
I have been a huge Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen fan ever since they were 9 months old.
And I will always be a huge fan of Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
I have read some of the comments that other people have wrote.
About how Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen cannot act.
And I know that people can have their own opinion.
But my opinion is that they can act and they can sing really really really well.
I will always and I do mean always will support Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.
I think that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a lot of talent when it comes to acting and singing.
And I think that for this being the first movie that they have ever done together they did a wonderful job.
To Grandmother's House We Go is one of my favorite Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movies.
As a matter of fact I have a copy of this movie.
I think that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have a lot of talent in acting, singing and dancing..
2 good reasons to avoid parenthood....and the holidays.
Were these 2 argumentative crumb munchers cute or a gargantuan pain in the butt?
Cute and funny show not intended to be anything but what it was - mindless Christmas entertainment.
My Christmas wish is to never have kids, especially a pair like this duo..
really bad.
Mary-Kate and Ashley are really obnoxious in TGHWG.
Sometimes I had to change the channel to stop myself from throwing the remote at their irritating little faces.
The only good thing about this movie was Eddie.
He was funny although he swore in front of the little kids.1 out of 10.
this is a great tear jerker and a good film for the kids to enjoy.
this film was really good and it was all about listening and doing as your told and helping your brothers or sisters it was a brotherly sisterly love kinda film i nearly cried it was so adorable to see them at that age now look at them they look the same and they have grown up xxx if you don't like this film you must be mad because it is good and a tear jerker.
please give this film a thumbs up it is really good and a little soppy but upsetting when the girls get kidnapped i mean they are only 5 years old.
please give it a thumbs up it'll be good for the little children more than adults.
this was amazing because the love that was shown shows us how to care for our family and friends and teaches us a lesson in a way..
Quite pressing.
Comparing to all of the crappy, airheady films that the Olsen twins have done these days, this cute piece of nothing is quite harmless...but not very entertaining.
These two girls at, any age, haven´t had any kind of acting talent.
The thing that saves them in this movie (and almost all of their movies) is the slight charisma, cuteness and the fact that they are twins and are interesting for a while because of that.
But that isn´t enough for a movie to become good.
TGHWG is predictable, badly acted, childlish etc.
It is not the worst thing from Olsen twins and kids under 12 may be entertained.Some parts were a little nice but just listen to them SING!
Horrible..
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