National Lampoon's Vacation

National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)

Genres - Comedy, Drama, Action, Adventure  |   Sub-Genres - Absurd Comedy, Farce, Road Movie  |   Run Time - 98 min.  |   Countries - United States  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Jason Ankeny

The first film in the Vacation comedy franchise stars Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, an ad exec who becomes consumed with taking his family cross-country to Wally World, a California amusement park. Less a vacation than a descent into a peculiarly American kind of hell, the Griswolds suffer through an endless series of catastrophes, culminating in a run-in with the law.

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family-vacation, bumbler, amusement-park, cross-country, escapades, road-trip