'Christmas Vacation' landed in theaters during the holiday season of 1989. A year later, a far more sweet-hearted John Hughes-scripted Christmas movie, 'Home Alone,' would become one of the highest-grossing comedies ever.⁠ ⁠ More than any other time of year, the holidays bring with them that particular mix of nostalgia and expectation around family that makes them such a fulcrum of guilt, disappointment, and regret. Hughes’s #ChristmasVacation script captures perfectly the collision between our desire for the holidays to conform to the rose-colored memories of the past and the unpleasant fact that, even during the holidays, people continue to be as stubbornly imperfect as they are during the rest of the year. ⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio.