Home Alone

4.00
    Home Alone
    1990

    Synopsis

    Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.

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    Cast

    • Macaulay CulkinKevin McCallister
    • Joe PesciHarry Lyme
    • Daniel SternMarv Murchins
    • Catherine O'HaraKate McCallister
    • John HeardPeter McCallister
    • Roberts BlossomMarley
    • Devin RatrayBuzz McCallister
    • John CandyGus Polinski
    • Michael C. MaronnaJeff McCallister
    • Hillary WolfMegan McCallister

    Recommendations

    • 80

      The New York Times

      Kevin has the potential to be the mawkish child or the obnoxious little adult so common on screen, but he is neither. Played with great glee by Macaulay Culkin, he is a totally endearing, up-to-the-minute little boy.
    • 80

      Washington Post

      This holiday contender from John Hughes is too crass, too loud and too violent to be added blithely to Christmas viewing traditions. But it is funny.
    • 70

      Washington Post

      The movie has a big payoff; it's the setup that's the drag. But Kevin's antics will touch the budding subversive in every kid. My advice? Hide the car keys.
    • 67

      Austin Chronicle

      Home Alone is the apex, the pinnacle, the culmination of every bad bit Hughes has ever written or directed. It overflows with primitive, disastrously unfunny sight gags and neo-hateful familial humor.
    • 67

      The A.V. Club

      Even though Macaulay Culkin's alternately muggy and inexpressive lead performance hasn't worn well, the supporting turns by Catherine O'Hara and John Candy are especially crackerjack, as is John Williams' buoyantly cartoony score.
    • 63

      Chicago Sun-Times

      All plausibility is gone, we sit back, detached, to watch stunt men and special effects guys take over a movie that promised to be the kind of story audiences could identify with.
    • 63

      TV Guide Magazine

      The first half of Home Alone features the sugar-coated sentimentality that can usually be found in a Hughes film, while the second half is full of unanticipated sadism.
    • 60

      Empire

      So it may not be Citizen Kane, but it is a hilarious comedy (although not a very believable one — there can be no eight-year-olds this ingenious) that kids will love and adults won’t mind sitting through either.

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