National Lampoon's Vacation

National Lampoon's Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo. Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid, Imogene Coca, John Candy, Jane Krakowski, and Eugene Levy, among others, appear in supporting roles.

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National Lampoon - Comedy film - Harold Ramis - Chevy Chase - Beverly D'Angelo - Anthony Michael Hall - Dana Barron - Randy Quaid - Imogene Coca - John Candy - Jane Krakowski - Eugene Levy

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In the film, Chase and D'Angelo portray a married couple (Clark and Ellen Griswold) with two children (Rusty and Audrey), living in Chicago, who decide to take a cross-country trip to an amusement park (Wally World) in California with a side trip to the Kansas farm where Cousin Eddie (Quaid) lives, where the couple agrees to drive D'Angelo's crotchety aunt to Phoenix. In this film, almost everyone in the Griswold family (minus Audrey) wear Lacoste polos.

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Chicago - Amusement park - California - Kansas - Phoenix - Lacoste

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The screenplay, written by John Hughes, is reportedly about his own family's ill-fated trip to Disneyland when he was a boy. The success of the movie helped launch his screenwriting career.

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John Hughes - Disneyland

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