National Lampoon's Vacation
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Time Out says
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
Release details
UK release:
1983
Duration:
98 mins
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Cast:
John Candy, Dana Barron, Anthony Michael Hall, Randy Quaid, Imogene Coca, Beverly D'Angelo, Chevy Chase, Eddie Bracken
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