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National Lampoon's European Vacation
1985
· Movie
· 95 min
D
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4769
- IMDb #4186
- Rotten Tomatoes #4115
- Metacritic #3748
- Letterboxd #4295
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4443
+5 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4086
- Metacritic Critics #3741
- Metacritic Audience #3622
- Kinopoisk #3532
- Trakt #3811
Every rating
37–67
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 37, highest is Kinopoisk on 67. Critics average 42, everyone else 58.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The Griswold family wins a vacation tour of Europe. Their trip is a series of comedic disasters as they travel from London to Paris to Rome, offending locals, causing accidents, and displaying their profound American ignorance, all while the patriarch is obsessed with meeting a British game show host.
Details
- Director
- Amy Heckerling
- Writers
- John Hughes, Robert Klane
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Released
- 25 July 1985
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $17.0M
- Box office
- $49.4M
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