National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Directed by Harold Ramis
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