Films and TV shows that feel like Holiday Road by Lindsey Buckingham
The gleeful, slightly unhinged optimism of a disastrous family road trip across America.
- National Lampoon's Vacation (1983): This is the very film the song was written for, perfectly capturing the frantic joy of a doomed family trek to Walley World.
- Little Miss Sunshine (2006): It shares the exact same chaotic energy of a dysfunctional family crammed into a vehicle on a desperate cross-country journey.
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987): A masterclass in travel disasters and forced companionship that mirrors the bumpy ride of the song.
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985): It captures the same bright, bouncy, eccentric Americana and roadside weirdness found in Buckingham's track.
- Almost Famous (2000): It encapsulates that specific 70s and 80s rock-infused nostalgia of touring the American landscape on a bus.
- The Sure Thing (1985): An iconic 80s cross-country hitchhiking romantic comedy that treats the American highway as a place of endless possibility.
- Easy Rider (1969): The ultimate American road trip film, providing the counter-culture blueprint for hitting the highway to find freedom.
- The End of the F***ing World (2017): A darkly comedic take on two young people embarking on a reckless, unpredictable road trip adventure.
