Chevy Chase and Christie Brinkley have a “Vacation” reunion: 'Always over too soon!'
She made a cameo in Chase's 1983 comedy.
Clark W. Griswold ended up with the Girl in the Ferrari after all.
Actor Chevy Chase and model Christie Brinkley, costars in the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation, reunited for several snapshots that both shared Monday on social media. Photos showed them hugging and smiling at the camera from the back of a moving car, which is appropriate for them.
"Vacation is always over too soon!" Brinkley captioned the images.
In the now iconic film, which kicked off a franchise of comedies about a hapless, boneheaded Chicago family man determined to create special memories for his family, which included Beverly D'Angelo as his wife, Ellen, and a rotating cast of younger actors as their kids, Rusty and Audrey. (This round it was Anthony Michael Hall and Dana Barron.)
Brinkley's part — her first acting role — came in during the Griswold family's road trip to a theme park called Walley World. As Clark piloted the clunky station wagon he secured for the trip, Brinkley cruised by in a Ferrari with an ’80s-tastic driver who inspired him to drive 80 miles per hour to keep up with her. His feelings matched the music playing: "I'm So Excited" by the Pointer Sisters.
Over the course of the John Hughes-penned film, Griswold encounters the woman again and again, whether in his real life or in his dreams.
Directed by the late Harold Ramis, National Lampoon's Vacation also starred Randy Quaid (as Cousin Eddie) and Miriam Flynn (as his wife Catherine). Brian Doyle-Murray, Eugene Levy, and John Candy all had small roles.
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The model famously reprised her role for a cameo in 1997's Vegas Vacation, but that movie — the fourth in the franchise, after National Lampoon's European Vacation and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation — was not a hit.
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Chase and D'Angelo played the Griswolds again, too, for the 2015 reboot of the franchise, called simply Vacation. In that one, Ed Helms stars as the patriarch of his own family who wants to take a trip like the one he once took to Walley World.
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