Light up your Christmas with this classic

This Christmas season, celebrate with the Griswolds and go back in time to revisit the 1989 classic “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.” This hilarious tale of a Christmas gone horribly wrong stars famous faces such as Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid and Doris Roberts of “Everybody Loves Raymond” fame.
The film opens with the Griswold family packing into the old family station wagon and traveling to get the Christmas tree. The family is in high spirits, singing Christmas carols when, suddenly, an old pickup tries to race their station wagon.
The father, Clark, gives in and provokes them, eventually landing himself under a semi- truck. They manage to find their way out from under the truck and skyrocket into a field of trees for sale.
Ironic as their landing place is, they manage to find a suitable Christmas tree. It’s obvious gargantuan size is epitomized by Clark’s son, Rusty, saying, “Dad, that tree wouldn’t fit in our yard!” Rusty then comes back with another quip, inquiring as to whether his father remembered a saw. Clark doesn’t respond, but the next scene shows the clearly uprooted tree, roots and all, tied to the top of the station wagon.
The story continues to follow the family as they get ready for a “good ol’-fashioned family Christmas” at the Griswold house. All of the relatives are coming over and Clark wants it to be the perfect Christmas.
Clark proceeds to decorate the house in extravagant fashion, with 25,000 lights, and in the process, manages to fall off the house multiple times. In the end, the lights on the house do not light and Clark goes absolutely bananas. He proceeds to beat down a plastic Santa, send his eight tiny reindeer to the moon and trample a “Merry Christmas” sign.
The family finally figures out the problem and the house bursts into light. It is at this point that Clark’s cousin Eddie shows up with his family. They clamber out of their musty, rusty trailer with their dog Snots, and greet the rest of the family.
Throughout the course of Christmas, the Griswold family deals with flaming trees, Snots chasing a squirrel through the house and the arrival of the local SWAT team, because Eddie kidnapped Clark’s boss.
"National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation" is a must-own for any family. Find out all of the hilarious mishaps en route to the perfect Christmas and pick up this classic for under $15 at any local retailer.