COMING ATTRACTIONS

( opening dates are tentative)

Vacation, R Billed as a “sequel” to National Lampoon’s Vacation, but pretty much a remake: Ed Helms plays grown- up Rusty Griswold, who, remembering the “fun- filled” cross- country excursion he took as a kid to Walley World, America’s greatest amusement park, comes up with the perfect surprise: to re- create the trip for his wife ( Christina Applegate), and two sons. With Skyler Gisondo, Steele Stebbins, plus appearances by original Vacation stars Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo; directed by Jonathan Goldstein. Opens Wednesday

Infinitely Polar Bear, R Mark Ruffalo plays a manic- depressive father living off his family’s wealth while hunting mushrooms, cooking elaborate meals or working on one of his many half completed projects, who, despite his illness, must become primary caregiver to his two young daughters while his wife ( Zoe Saldana) works on the MBA that may guarantee them all a better life. With Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide, Beth Dixon, Keir Dullea; directed by Maya Forbes. July 31

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, PG- 13 Despite the disbanding of the Impossible Mission Force by vengeful Washington bureaucrats ( Alec Baldwin as the CIA chief), Tom Cruise, et al., take on the Syndicate, an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are. With Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris; directed by Christopher McQuarrie. July 31

The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet, PG A 10- year- old cartographer getting an award from the Smithsonian for inventing a perpetual motion machine, without telling his cowboy father and scientist mother, hops a freight train and heads for Washington. With Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter, Robert Maillet, Judy Davis; directed by Jean- Pierre Jeunet. July 31