National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Release date: 1983-07-29
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Harold Ramis
Production Co: Warner Bros.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Rating: 7.4/10
Length: 1h 38min

Storyline

The Griswold family are on a quest. A quest to a Walley World theme park for a family vacation, 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.

Plot Keywords

father, wife, son, daughter, aunt, beautiful woman, hilarious, madcap, chicago, car, los angeles, hotel, amusement park, grand canyon, travel, family, road trip, vacation, quest, adventure, 1980s

Short Review

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.