| Release Date | 29 July 1983 |
| Budget | $15,000,000 USD |
| US Box Office | $61,000,000 USD |
| Tagline | Every summer Chevy Chase takes his family on a little trip. This year he went too far. |
| Genre | Adventure Comedy Romance |
National Lampoon's Vacation 1983 Movie - The first film in the Vacation comedy franchise stars Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, an ad exec who becomes consumed with taking his family cross-country to Wally World, a California amusement park. Less a vacation than a descent into a peculiarly American kind of hell, the Griswolds suffer through an endless series of catastrophes, culminating in a run-in with the law.
1
