The McCallisters are flying to Paris for Christmas with fifteen people in the house. Kevin, eight, is sent to the attic for ruining dinner, and wishes his family would disappear. A power cut resets the alarm clocks, the family runs for the airport, a neighbour’s kid is counted in his place, and they are over the Atlantic before Kate realises. Home Alone was the highest-grossing comedy ever made for over twenty years, and John Hughes wrote it in nine days.
What Happens While They Are Gone
Kevin eats ice cream for dinner, watches a gangster film he is not allowed to see, goes shopping, and is terrified of the furnace and the old man next door who salts the pavements. Harry and Marv, the Wet Bandits, have been casing the street and come for the house on Christmas Eve. Kevin has prepared. The paint cans, the iron, the blowtorch, the tar-covered stairs with the nail, and the tarantula on Marv’s face are the last half hour.
Why It Is Watched Every December
Macaulay Culkin’s aftershave scream became the poster. Catherine O’Hara as Kate, trying to get home from Paris via a polka band, carries the other half of the film. The church scene with Old Man Marley is the heart of it. John Williams’ Somewhere in My Memory was nominated for an Oscar. The house in Winnetka, Illinois sold for over five million dollars.
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