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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989, Warner Bros.) is a film directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik and produced by Warner Bros. It is the third installment in the National Lampoon Vacation series of movies. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
Jeremiah S. Chechik is the director of such films as National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Diabolique and The Avengers. ...
For other people with this name, see John Hughes. ...
For other people with this name, see John Hughes. ...
Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ...
Beverly DAngelo (born November 15, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. ...
Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973[1]) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and musician. ...
Johnny Mark Galecki is an American actor. ...
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Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is a composer, best known for his movie soundtrack work for movie director David Lynch, most notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga (1991-1992) and Mulholland Dr.. // He was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Sicilian mother and an Italian father and...
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National Lampoons European Vacation is a 1985 comedy film, second in the Vacation series, directed by Amy Heckerling and starring Chevy Chase and Beverly DAngelo. ...
Vegas Vacation (1997, Warner Bros. ...
Jeremiah S. Chechik is the director of such films as National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Diabolique and The Avengers. ...
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January 1973 cover of National Lampoon National Lampoon was an American humor magazine that began in 1970 as an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon. ...
It stars Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, Beverly D'Angelo as Ellen Griswold, Johnny Galecki as Rusty Griswold and a young Juliette Lewis as Audrey Griswold. Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn reprise their roles as, respectively, "Cousin Eddie" and "Cousin Catherine," from the first National Lampoon's Vacation film. Other supporting roles are played by Brian Doyle-Murray (who also appeared in the original Vacation film, although in a different and smaller role), E. G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, Nicholas Guest, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, William Hickey, Mae Questel, Cody Burger, Ellen Hamilton Latzen and Sam McMurray. Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ...
Clark Wilhelm Griswold, Jr. ...
Beverly DAngelo (born November 15, 1951 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. ...
Johnny Mark Galecki is an American actor. ...
Juliette L. Lewis (born June 21, 1973[1]) is an Oscar-nominated American actress and musician. ...
Randall Rudy Randy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated actor and former comedian. ...
Miriam Flynn (born June 18, 1952) is an American voice artist and character actress. ...
National Lampoons Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly DAngelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and Imogene Coca. ...
Brian Doyle-Murray (born October 31, 1945) is an American comedian, screenwriter and character actor from Chicago. ...
E. G. Marshal as the President in Superman II E. G. Marshall (June 18, 1914 - August 24, 1998) was a two time Emmy Award winner American actor who starred in the 1957 movie 12 Angry Men. ...
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John Randolph John Randolph (June 1, 1915 - February 24, 2004) was a prolific Tony Award-winning actor. ...
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Nicholas Guest (born Nicholas Haden-Guest, May 5, 1955, New York, New York) is an American actor who is the brother of Christopher Guest and brother-in-law of Jamie Lee Curtis. ...
This article is about the American actress. ...
William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. ...
Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ...
Cody Burger (born August 4, 1983 in California, USA), was a minor child actor whose noteworthy acting credentials include portraying Cousin Rocky Johnson in National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989), appearances on the hit television program Home Improvement (1991), Mel Gibsons vehicle Forever Young (1992), and most recently, several...
Ellen Hamilton Latzen (born July 26, 1980) is an American child actress. ...
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As head of his family, Clark W. Griswold attempts to follow American family Christmas traditions with elaborate Christmas lights and decorations on the exterior of the family home. He then attempts a Grand Illumination outside the house. Christmas lights (also sometimes called fairy lights, twinkle lights or holiday lights in the United States) are strands of electric lights used to decorate homes, public/commercial buildings and Christmas trees during the Christmas season. ...
Grand Illumination is an outdoor ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of Christmas lights. ...
Plot summary The movie begins with Clark taking his family on the search for a perfect Christmas tree. After aggravating nearby motorists, getting stuck under a big rig, and walking in the woods for a long time, Clark finally finds said tree. (He digs the tree out himself because he forgot the saw.) Clark breaks several windows and gets covered in tree sap setting it up, as it barely fits in the yard, let alone the living room. A Christmas tree from 1900. ...
semi-trailer truck with sleeper behind the cab. ...
While shopping for gifts at a mall, Clark meets a saleswoman named Mary. He makes a series of Freudian slips to her on their first encounter, and later fantasizes about her skinny-dipping in his future pool. Image File history File links NLCV-Turkey. ...
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Chevy Chase (born October 8, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning American comedian, writer, and television and film actor. ...
The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th, the preceding day or vigil before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas season. ...
A Freudian slip, or parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory or physical action that is believed to be caused by the unconscious mind. ...
Clark has been working on a project at his firm which he expects will bring in a good Christmas bonus. Clark plans to use said bonus to put in a swimming pool, which he has already laid down a $7,500 deposit on. This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
As Christmas approaches, the many members of Clark's extended family begin arriving to stay with him. Clark and Ellen's parents were the first to arrive. This drives him to go set up the lighting on the house with his son Rusty. He covers nearly every inch of the home's exterior and yard with lights (according to Clark himself, a grand total of 25,000 Christmas lights). Clark becomes very frustrated after many attempts to get the lights working. Unknown to him, the electricity wasn't on to begin with. When Clark's mother heads to the back store room to get something, she clicks a light switch, lighting the house (and causing the power plant to switch to nuclear generators for backup power), and blinding their yuppie neighbors. After the lights are up and running, Clark's cousin, Eddie, and his family show up to stay with him for a month, with their dilapidated, rusty RV parked in the driveway the whole time. Christmas is an annual holiday that celebrates the birth of Jesus. ...
Clark and Ellen are concerned about Eddie's children, as they won't have many, if any gifts, for Christmas, due to Eddie's seven year unemployment.
On Christmas Eve, the family's eldset members, Uncle Lewis and Aunt Bethany, arrive for dinner. Numerous disasters occur that evening: The turkey is cooked for far too long and dries out, the aunt's cat is electrocuted when it chews on a strand of Christmas lights, Lewis burns the tree down, forcing Clark to quickly search for a replacement. He takes one from his yard and sets it up, and a manic squirrel leaps out and "terrorizes" the family. A delivery from the company arrives at the house that evening, everyone expecting it to be the long-awaited bonus. Unfortunately, Clark's boss cut out bonuses without informing his employees. As a substitute, Clark is enrolled in the "Jelly of the Month" club. The Christmas Eve (1904-05), watercolor painting by the Swedish painter Carl Larsson (1853-1919) Christmas Eve, the evening of December 24th, the preceding day or vigil before Christmas Day, is treated to a greater or a lesser extent in most Christian societies as part of the Christmas season. ...
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Clark has now reached his boiling point, going through several outbursts out of severe frustration. The family attempts to leave due to the events of the evening. Eddie then kidnaps Clark's boss, and the boss finally sees reason about the Christmas bonuses. The police, called by the boss' wife, raid the home, but the boss explains that it is all a misunderstanding.
Uncle Lewis' cigar ignites the gas from the sewage Eddie had earlier dumped down the street drain while emptying the holding tank on his RV, blasting a Santa ornament into the sky. Everyone watches the strange but touching sight, as Clark realizes his dream of the perfect, albeit weird, family Christmas.
Box Office Performance The movie debuted at #2 at the box-office while grossing $11,750,203 during the opening weekend. It went on to gross a total of $71,319,546 in the United States while showing in movie theaters. In addition to its box-office performance, the movie has made $34,800,000 in rental profits.[1] [2] Jazz Festival box Office, Edmonton A box office is a place where tickets are sold to the public for admission to a venue. ...
Sequels This is the only sequel in the Vacation series to have spawned its own sequel: a direct to video 2003 release entitled Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. Randy Quaid and Miriam Flynn are the only Vacation regulars to reprise their roles. A film that is released direct-to-video (also known as made-for-video, straight-to-video and, more recently, straight-to-DVD) is one which has been released to the public on home video formats (historically VHS) before or without being released in movie theaters or broadcast on television. ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Randall Rudy Randy Quaid (born October 1, 1950) is an Academy Award-nominated actor and former comedian. ...
Miriam Flynn (born June 18, 1952) is an American voice artist and character actress. ...
Christmas Vacation is preceded in the Vacation series by:
Christmas Vacation is followed in the series by: National Lampoons Vacation is a 1983 comedy film directed by Harold Ramis and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly DAngelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Dana Barron, Randy Quaid and Imogene Coca. ...
Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ...
National Lampoons European Vacation is a 1985 comedy film, second in the Vacation series, directed by Amy Heckerling and starring Chevy Chase and Beverly DAngelo. ...
Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
Vegas Vacation (1997, Warner Bros. ...
For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Television coverage The broadcast television rights to Christmas Vacation are held by NBC, which currently airs a censored version of the movie every December, usually on a Sunday night. It appears that in 2006, NBC decided not to air the movie, possibly in part due to the addition of Sunday Night Football. Instead, the movie appeared on the TBS, which listed it six times on its schedule between Sunday, Dec. 17 and Sunday. Dec. 24, 2006. The TBS broadcast included at least some of the risque language of the theatrical release, including the series of double entendre remarks a flustered Clark utters when he encounters sexy department store saleswoman Mary (Nicolette Scorsese) at the negligee counter. The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...
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NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on Sunday, August 6, 2006 with the pre-season opening Hall of Fame Game. ...
TBS also stands for Tokyo Broadcasting System, a Japanese television network. ...
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The interior of a typical Macys department store. ...
The negligee is a form of womenswear intended for wear at night and in the bedroom or in a airport parking lot. ...
The CBC however, has no problem broadcasting the movie with some scenes that its American counterpart censors. For example, in the beginning of the film, Clark is antagonized by a couple of men in a truck. He flips them the bird. This is shown in Canada, but not in the USA. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), a Canadian crown corporation, is the country’s national public radio and television broadcaster. ...
TNT broke with tradition starting in September of 2007 by airing Christmas Vacation 6 times during the weekend of the 15th and 16th mixed between the original Vacation and Vegas Vacation. It is not known if NBC has made an agreement with TNT's regular programming and rights for the film, but the networks share coverage for sporting events such as the PGA and NASCAR races. // TNT may refer to: Trinitrotoluene, the chemical explosive usually known as TNT Alkyl nitrites, TNT is a UK brand for this medicinal and recreational Turner Network Television, cable television network TNT N.V., Dutch international transport and logistics corporation, and its divisions TNT Express, Global Express Delivery Services TNT Logistics...
For other uses, see Vacation (disambiguation). ...
Vegas Vacation (1997, Warner Bros. ...
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Jeff Burton (99), Elliott Sadler (38), Ricky Rudd (21), Dale Jarrett (88), Sterling Marlin (40), Jimmie Johnson (48), and Casey Mears (41) practice for the 2004 Daytona 500 The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) is the largest sanctioning body of motorsports in the United States. ...
Trivia - This was actress Mae Questel's last performance.
- The Chicago Blackhawks donated the specialty jerseys to the producers with "Griswold" written on the back for Clark and Rusty to wear.
- In Rocky V, just before Paulie comes in as Santa Claus, Rocky Jr. and his friends can be seen watching the film.
- The film's director, Jeremiah S. Chechik, is on the cover of People Magazine that Clark is reading in his bedroom.
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Mae Questel (September 13, 1908 - January 4, 1998) was an American actress and voice artist. ...
The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. ...
Rocky V is the fifth film in the Rocky film saga. ...
The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ...
Jeremiah S. Chechik is the director of such films as National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Diabolique and The Avengers. ...
People, a weekly magazine of celebrity and popular culture news, debuted on February 27, 1974. ...
References - ^ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=christmasvacation.htm Box Office Mojo box office information
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097958/business IMDB box office and rental information
External links Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at the Internet Movie Database.
- Critics' reviews of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Fan Site
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