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National Lampoon’s Vacation is a comedy which was shot in 1983. The director of the picture is Harold Ramis. Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, Dana Barron and Anthony Michael Hall played the leading parts in the film. The supporting cast of Vacation includes comedians John Candy and Imogene Coca, model Christi Brinkley and Jane Krakowski.

National Lampoon’s Vacation gathered more that $61 million in the US having the budget of $15 million. In 2000, the film was ranked among greatest comedy films of all time according to the voting of Total Film magazine readers. The film took the 46^th place.

The plot of the film runs as follows.

Clark Griswold decides to drive his family to Wally World (America’s Favorite Family Fun Park) which is situated in Los Angeles. The main goal of Clark is to spend more time with his wife Ellen and his children Rusty and Audrey. The main character yields to no persuasion of his wife to fly. He wants to have more time for communication with his family. However his new car has not been arrived yet. Thus there is nothing else left for Clark to do but to agree to accept Wagon Queen Family Truckster. It should be noted that this car gives a lot of troubles to the family on the way.

Clark’s dreams connected with the pleasant pastime with his family are fated not to become realized. The family constantly gets into messes and their adventure is full of funny and sometimes very unpleasant incidents. Every character of the film contributes his/her mite in this journey. These are Uncle Eddie, Aunt Edna, temptress in Ferrari and the obese security officer.

Finally Griswold family reaches the destination station. But to their astonishment the Wally World Park is closed for two weeks. Beside himself with rage, Clark can not keep the situation under control. By threatening the security guard with a gun he demands to let his family in the park. The Griswolds are about to be arrested. Suddenly, the owner of the park, Roy Wally becomes deeply touched by the story of unpleasant experiences of this family and he allows them to enter the Wally Park in the capacity of his guests.