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Dana Barron has 6 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989
Comedy

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Dir. Harold Ramis · With Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall

Six New Yorkers navigate love, commitment, and adulthood. When struggling novelist Sam takes in an abandoned boy he meets on the subway, his life begins to intertwine with a talented singer who challenges his bachelor ways. Meanwhile, his best friend Annie battles alopecia while torn between two drastically different men, and a long-term couple faces a crossroads that could alter their future together.
Dir. Josh Radnor · With Josh Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara

When a reporter encounters the eldest son of a famous political family at a mountain retreat, she winds up pretending to be his girlfriend over Christmas so he can save face with his family. Should she secretly expose newsworthy scoops about the famous family in order to save her job, or trust that she's falling in love for real? Stars Patricia Richardson and Katrina Law.
Dir. Bert Kish · With Katrina Law, Patricia Richardson, Susie Abromeit

After a military plane crashes outside of a small American town, its cargo — a genetically engineered, sixty-foot-long python — begins stalking and killing the locals.
Dir. Richard Clabaugh · With Frayne Rosanoff, Robert Englund, Casper Van Dien
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey takes on the local drug cartel.
Dir. J. Lee Thompson · With Charles Bronson, Kay Lenz, John P. Ryan

as Audrey Griswold
Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man.
Dir. Nick Marck · With Randy Quaid, Miriam Flynn, Dana Barron