
National Lampoon's Vacation: Everything You Didn't Know
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The Man Who Changed His Script
John Hughes wrote and directed 16 candles in 1984, a year after vacation was released. Ramis and Chevy updated the time to 1983 when suburban America tried to start from scratch. Norman Rockwell's sentimental idea of piling into a car for ramshackle family adventure had a more desperate appeal then.
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