High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vegas Vacation is a 1997 comedy film. It is the fourth film in the Vacation film series centering around the fictitious Griswold family, following Vacation, European Vacation, and Christmas Vacation. Chevy Chase reprises his starring role as Clark W. Griswold, the patriarch of the family. The film grossed over $36.4 million domestically. This is the only theatrical Vacation film not to be sponsored by National Lampoon.