It's a Gift (1934)
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
After he inherits some money, Harold Bissonette ("pronounced bis-on-ay") decides to give up the grocery business, move to California and run an orange grove. Despite his family's objections and the news that the land he bought is worthless, Bissonette packs up and drives out to California with his nagging wife Amelia and children.
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What critics compared It's a Gift to
"Parents" is essentially a comedy of frustration, akin to the scripts that John Hughes devised for the original "Vacation" and then "Planes Trains and Automobiles"--or, on a far more exalted level, that of W.C. Fields for the incomparable 1934 "It's a Gift".
Whether it’s W.C. Fields in It’s a Gift (1934), the murderous chainsaw-wielding clan in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), the Firefly bunch in House of 1000 Corpses (2003) or every family in every Wes Anderson picture, it’s a staple of the movies.