# @hollywoodreporter on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSsPS2ekkpv
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38256154-hollywoodreporter-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-12-25T15:20:12.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hollywood Reporter (@hollywoodreporter) — https://gondola.cc/hollywoodreporter

## Caption

'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.⁠
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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. ⁠
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