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Name: National Lampoon's Vacation
Released: 1983-7-29
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall

National Lampoon's Vacation

R
1h 38m
1983

94%

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The all-American Griswold family just wants to go on an all-American vacation. Everyone is packed. The route is planned ... And absolutely everything goes wrong as a simple trip quickly becomes a madcap cross-country odyssey and heroic quest in search of National Lampoon's Vacation. For the Clark W. Griswolds of Chicago, 50 weeks of work and routine will soon be rewarded with a fortnight of frenzied freedom. Mom and the kids would rather fly, but Dad (Chevy Chase) insists on driving west to Walley World. He's programmed everything on the family's PC--from tire wear to best routes, from choice sights to the finest AAA-recommended lodgings. With such planning everything should go right ... Wrong!!

Director:

Harold Ramis

Producer:

Matty Simmons

Writer:

John Hughes

Cast:

Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, John Candy, Christie Brinkley

Extras

Locked video

Introduction

45 SEC

Locked video

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S VACATION: The Inside Story

1 HR 28 MIN

Locked video

Trailer

1 MIN

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

94%

Critics Consensus: Blessed by a brilliantly befuddled star turn from Chevy Chase, National Lampoon's Vacation is one of the more consistent -- and thoroughly quotable -- screwball comedies of the 1980s.

Reviews

Epoch Times

Mark Jackson

"Vacation," and especially cousin Eddie have long become oft-referenced parts of the American pop culture lexicon. While not from this episode, we all know the two-word response for when your bathroom's not working. Isn't that national treasure territory?

Sets the standard for the sub-genre of road trip films, and it’s still the best of its ilk...

Some jokes feel a rewrite away from leaning into the right sort of stereotyping rather than the more offensive ones. Still, the comedy's vision of ugly Americanism in America and the scourge of suburbanite selfishness helps it scoot past its problems.