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Vacation
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Vacation is a 2015 American adventure comedy film written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, based on National Lampoon's Vacation and following National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2. It stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Skyler Gisondo and Chris Hemsworth, was produced by Chris Bender and David Dobkin for New Line Cinema, with music by Mark Mothersbaugh.
Filmed in Atlanta, New Mexico, Georgia and North Carolina, and set in Arizona, it was distributed by Netflix on a budget of $31,000,000 and earned $104,400,000 at the box office.
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6.3Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless to say, things don't go quite as planned.
Cast
- Ed Helms as Rusty Griswold
- Christina Applegate as Debbie Griswold
- Skyler Gisondo as James Griswold
- Steele Stebbins as Kevin Griswold
- Chris Hemsworth as Stone Crandall
- Leslie Mann as Audrey Griswold
Themes
- route 66
- vacation
- grand canyon
- dysfunctional family
- road trip
- sequel
- family vacation
- amusement park
- roller coaster / rollercoaster
- theme park
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
131,461 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
27%
Metacritic
34/100
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Genres
- Adventure, Comedy
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- John Francis Daley Jonathan Goldstein
- Written by
- John Francis Daley Jonathan Goldstein
- Based on
- National Lampoon's Vacation , by John Hughes
- Produced by
- Chris Bender David Dobkin
- Starring
- Ed Helms Christina Applegate Leslie Mann Beverly D'Angelo Chevy Chase
- Cinematography
- Barry Peterson
- Edited by
- Jamie Gross
- Music by
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Production companies
- New Line Cinema RatPac-Dune Entertainment BenderSpink Big Kid Pictures
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Release date
- July 29, 2015 ( 2015-07-29 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 99 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $31 million
- Box office
- $107.2 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Based on
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Director
- John Francis Daley
- Screenwriter
- John Francis Daley
- Cast member
- Steele Stebbins
- Composer
- Mark Mothersbaugh
- Producer
- David Dobkin
- Production company
- New Line Cinema
- Narrative location
- Arizona
- Filming location
- North Carolina
- Duration
- 99
- FilmAffinity ID
- 690533
- Distribution format
- video on demand
- Official website
- www.warnerbros.com/movies/vacation
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- publication date
- 2015-08-27
- title
- Vacation
- distributed by
- Netflix
- social media followers
- 7147
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 34/100
Sources (13)
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Encyclopedic overview
Vacation is a 2015 American comedy road movie, written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. It stars Ed Helms, Christina Applegate, Leslie Mann, Beverly D'Angelo, Chris Hemsworth, and Chevy Chase. It is a sequel to Vegas Vacation (1997) and the sixth installment of the Vacation film series.
Vacation was released on July 29, 2015, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $107.2 million on a $31 million budget.
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