The Funny Ritual of the American Family Vacation

One of the funniest movies of all time… Next to Christmas Vacation!

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A Celebration of thirty years of National Lampoon’s Vacation.

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In the summer of 1983, Americans were treated to one of the best comedy films to examine the American family vacation and its inescapable heart of darkness: National Lampoon’s Vacation, directed by Harold Ramis and written by John Hughes, who based the screenplay on his short story “Vacation ’58.” The film stands as the best cultural document to exploit the humor of the American family vacation, that mainstream celebration reasserting the right to own the landscape and be miserable in the process–and all at great expense. There is no cultural behavior that is so consistently marked with promise year after year and also, in equal proportions, disappointment–unless we talk about marriage itself, but I dare not suggest that.

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Few movies tapped into the zeitgeist more effectively than Vacation. This is not only evidenced by its success in the…

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