Also Known As	National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation National Lampoon's Winter Holiday
Genre	Comedy
Date Released	30 November 1989
Production	Columbia Pictures Corporation
Distribution	Columbia Pictures
Related Links	1989 Movies November 1989 Movies
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Trivia and Quotes

Trivia

Clark and Eddie drink from "Marty Moose" glasses, the theme-park character from the first Vacation film, Vacation (1983).

The movie is based on John Hughes` short story "Christmas `59", the second Vacation story to be published in National Lampoon`s Magazine (the first was "Vacation `58", which was the basis for the first Vacation movie). The Christmas story was printed in December 1980.

# # Frank Capra III, the grandson of It`s a Wonderful Life (1946) director, Frank Capra, was the Assistant Director of Christmas Vacation (1989).

* * The Griswold`s neighbor`s house is the same house Murtaugh and his family lived in all the Lethal Weapon movies. The houses on this street are on the Warner Brothers Studios back lot.

The house front from "Bewitched" (1964) and "The New Gidget" (1986) appears in the home movie that Clark is watching in the attic.

The movie that Russ is watching when his grandparents arrive is It`s a Wonderful Life (1946).

After Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) unsuccessfully attempts to demonstrate his handiwork with the house Christmas lights to his family, he asks his son, Rusty (Johnny Galecki), to help him check all the light bulbs again. Rusty looks at his bare wrist, pretending to have a watch, and excuses himself. Looking at a bare wrist and pretending to have a watch is one of Chevy Chase`s trademark gags.

Final screen appearance of Mae Questel, who`s film career began in 1930 as the voice of Betty Boop.

The old Dodge pickup that tailgates Clark and the family in the opening scenes of the movie was previously used as `Kurt Russell``s work truck in the movie Overboard (1987).

The label on the home movie reel that Clark finds in the attic is labeled "Xmas `59". This is a reference to the name of the short story the movie is based on, "Christmas `59".

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