» a bright wall in a dark room.: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
GETTING THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT
by Erica U.
All month I’ve been contemplating which holiday movie I wanted to write about and I’m embarrassed to tell you how much time I spent googling “obscure Christmas film.”
It wasn’t that I wanted to put on airs of sophistication or…
This could have been written about my father. Every year we watched this movie together and I always remember him laughing so hard he cried. We still quote memorable bits to each other (“I have to EAT! So I can take my back pills”) and crack up together. For a secular family, watching this movie was pretty much our only set-in-stone tradition.
It’s been eight years since I’ve spent Christmas with my father, but he still watches this movie every year, and so do I.
