NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION The movie with a squirrel in the Christmas tree and a house full of nuts. Traditions are disasters waiting to happen in this gleeful laughfest. It's a Griswold family holiday Â¿ deal with it! Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid. A CHRISTMAS STORY All Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB-Gun. How he goes about getting it is the focus of a comedy treasure that's both a yuletide tale and a warm look at 1940s Americana. Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin, Melinda Dillon. ELF He was an orphaned infant who slipped into Santa's sack one Christmas Eve and was raised as an elf at the North Pole. Only he isn't an elfÂ¿ and now sunny, naÃ¯ve human Buddy comes to the cynical Big Apple to find his birth father. Will Ferrell, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel.