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#2,549 All-time worldwide

#24 1989 releases

Movie profile

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Name: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1989-11-30
Duration: 97 min

1989 · 97 min · Hughes Entertainment

Comedy

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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.

Worldwide gross $74.5M

Budget $27.0M

Gross minus budget $47.5M

ROI 2.76x

Domestic gross

$29.8M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$44.7M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$8.3M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.

Open rankings

All-time worldwide #2,549 All-time chart position of 13,006 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1989 releases #24 Release-year chart position of 219 titles Ranked against movies released in 1989. Studio / company #4 Hughes Entertainment of 9 titles Position inside the mapped Hughes Entertainment movie set. Franchise #1 National Lampoon's Vacation of 4 titles Ranked against mapped movies from the same franchise. Primary genre #960 Comedy of 4,945 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) perform at the box office?

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) earned a reported $74.5M worldwide against a reported $27.0M production budget. Its gross-minus-budget figure is about $47.5M. The current gross-to-budget multiple is 2.76x. In this database it currently ranks #2,549 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #24 among 1989 releases.

Worldwide gross: $74,542,088
Budget: $27,000,000
Gross minus budget: $47,542,088
ROI: 2.76x

Source: Reported box office data. Last updated: Jul 8, 2026. Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

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Movie facts

Production details

Release date: Nov 30, 1989
Production: Hughes Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures
Countries: US

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1989, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is positioned in this dataset as a Comedy title from Hughes Entertainment. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $74.5M, reported production budget is $27.0M, gross-minus-budget is $47.5M, ROI is 2.76x. For comparison, it currently sits #2,549 all-time in the current chart set and #24 among 1989 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

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Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.