About 15 years ago, director Ron Howard took his family on vacation. Call it a bucket list trip, one that took his brood to the epic Galapagos Islands about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador. The result of that trek was terrific family bonding and, many years later, "Eden" ( in theaters Aug. 22), a movie anchored to a true crime mystery that wormed its way into Howard's brain while on the islands. "It was our dinner conversation the whole trip," says Howard.