Having it all planned down to the last detail, well-meaning American paterfamilias Clark Griswold and his supportive wife Ellen take their two teenagers, Rusty and Audrey, on a cross-country trip ...

In the inaugural Griswold outing, Rusty is played by Anthony Michael Hall (aged 14 at the time), while Audrey was played by Dana Barron. "Vacation" never officially establishes birth order ...