UNCLE EDDIE CHRISTMAS VACATION MOVIE

D’Angelo starred in a host of TV movie roles in the '90s before taking up the helm of Ellen again in 1997’s Vegas Vacation and the 2015 Vacation reboot.

Christmas Vacation was her third time playing Ellen, the ever-supportive wife of Clark who is the bridge between her zealous husband and voice-of-reason children. Rising up in the industry in the late 1970s, D’Angelo performed alongside Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way but Loose and as singer Patsy Cline in Coal Miner’s Daughter. Image Credit: Warner Bros./Photofest Amanda Edwards/WireImage His TV credits continued on the fan favorite show Community, but lately he can be seen in this year’s Netflix film The Last Laugh opposite Richard Dreyfuss. He also reprised his role in the 2015 reboot Vacation starring Ed Helms. After Christmas Vacation he ventured into some edgier roles in Memoirs of an Invisible Man and Cops and Robbersons, as well as starring in the next sequel, Vegas Vacation. In addition to his work on SNL, Chase starred in a number of other comedies including Caddyshack and Three Amigos!. Clark, an office worker at a Chicago-based food preservative manufacturer, tries to involve his family in various holiday traditions, but unwelcome relatives and dumb luck sabotage nearly every attempt at holiday cheer.

Image Credit: Warner Bros./Photofest JB Lacroix/WireImageĪlready a comedy stalwart, Christmas Vacation saw Saturday Night Live alum Chevy Chase starring in the lead role as Clark Griswold for the third time. 1, 1989) The Hollywood Reporter looks at what the cast has been up to since blinding neighbors with Christmas lights and sailing across Chicago freeways on grease-lined sleds. As the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary (it first opened Dec. 2 slot behind the second installment of the Back to the Future franchise, but held the box office lead for the Christmas weekend of 1989 to eventually gross $71.3 million (not adjusted for inflation), according to Box Office Mojo, and has become an annual TV staple during the holidays.Ĭhristmas Vacation’s cast is chock-full of seasoned comedy performers, including leads Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, but also featured early roles for younger actors who would eventually become stars in their own right.īased on filmmaker John Hughes’ National Lampoon short story Christmas ’59, Christmas Vacation tells the story of family patriarch Clark Griswold hatching grand plans to celebrate Christmas, but as the previous Vacation movies proved, Clark’s best laid schemes rarely pan out well. It has been 30 years since the Griswold family invited audiences to celebrate the holidays in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.

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