In the second of two special holiday episodes, we’re looking ahead to 1989, the year we’re covering in our next season, to talk about Christmas classic National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik from a screenplay by John Hughes and starring Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Randy Quaid, Johnny Galecki and Juliette Lewis, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation was the third movie in the popular Vacation series.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-1989), Rita Kempley in the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/nationallampoonschristmasvacation.htm), and Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/11/movies/national-lampoons-christmas-vacation-review.html).

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