In the fourth film featuring the Griswold family "Vegas Vacation", Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) decides to take his family consisting of wife Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), son Rusty (Ethan Embry), and daughter Audrey (Marisol Nichols) to Las Vegas. Once in Vegas, the family runs into a number of problems that threaten to pull them apart. Clark becomes addicted to gambling and threatens to destroy the family finances. Ellen starts a relationship with Wayne Newton. Rusty creates a fake identity for himself, so he can gamble. Audrey decides to become a stripper after meeting her cousin Vicki (Shae D'Lyn). Along the way, the family has other adventures such as when Clark nearly destroys Hoover dam by accident.