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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Director: Harold Ramis
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
National Lampoon takes on another stereotype of middle America: the family vacation. Chevy Chase, his face pinkened by the strain of having to be in control, plays the affluent suburban patriarch who leads his family on a summer jaunt from Chicago to Disneyland (here rechristened Walleyworld). 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. An exercise in the comedy of humiliation which is the stuff of shamefaced giggles.Author: RR
Cast & crew
Director: Harold Ramis
Producer: Matty Simmons
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, John Candy, Eddie Bracken full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 98 mins
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