National Lampoons Vacation
Ad exec Clark Griswold becomes consumed with taking his family cross-country to Wally World, a California amusement park. But things aren't going to go exactly as planned, especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari.
7 February 1915, Astoria, New York, USA
24 July 1968
18 June 1952, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1 May 1950, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
18 November 1908, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
21 September 1935, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 December 1946, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
14 April 1968, West Roxbury, Massachusetts, USA
5 March 1936, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 April 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
August 24, 2014
Director Harold Ramis, who went on to make Groundhog Day, keeps the silliness coming at a fast and furious pace.
July 31, 2013
The humor in Vacation also taps into something beyond the trials and travails of a road trip gone wrong.
May 07, 2008
Despite plenty of gross-out gags and dumb slapstick bits, the careful viewer can occasionally detect some acrid and original satire in this 1983 film.
May 25, 2013
The Griswolds are a national treasure.
August 30, 2004
The result is a confident humor and throwaway style that helps sustain the laughs -- of which there are quite a few.
May 07, 2008
National Lampoon's Vacation is an enjoyable trip through familiar comedy landscapes.
August 01, 2015
It's a pleasant diversion with a few memorable bits and a likable cast, but true comic invention is hard to locate in the meandering screenplay by the late John Hughes.
June 24, 2006
The result is not so much a comedy about American values as a 2,500 mile skid on a banana skin. The visual gags come thick and fast, and are about as subtly signposted as the exit markers on a freeway.
August 02, 2013
Thanks largely to Chevy Chase's zaniness and comic timing this is a very funny movie.
May 21, 2013
A timeless comedy. Hysterical.
June 24, 2015
Half-baked but occasionally hilarious, National Lampoon's Vacation gets a reasonable amount of mileage out of depicting the disaster-prone journey of a "typical" family of four, the Griswolds of suburban Chicago.
May 31, 2013
National Lampoon's Vacation is a comedic cross-country adventure like no other, thanks to Chevy Chase and the rest of the Griswold family.
