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Home Alone

alone at home

one at home

alone in the house

Предложения

Сразу вспомнила кадр из кинофильма — один дома — 2.

Instantly an image from a movie, Home Alone 2, came to mind.

В каком городе оказался кевин из один дома 2

In Home Alone 2 Kevin finds himself in which city?

Ненавижу быть один дома по выходным.

Это история о мальчике, который случайно остался один дома.

It tells a story about a boy who is accidentally left alone at home.

Вы можете купить солевой спрей в аптеке или сделать один дома.

You can buy a saline spray at a drugstore or make one at home.

Они знают все о них, и у тебя есть один дома.

They know all of them, and you’ve got one at home.

Однажды, когда мальчик был один дома.

Правила поведения, когда ты один дома.

Ребёнок также не может быть оставлен один дома.

However, you cannot also leave the baby alone at home.

Поэтому в начале практики, когда вы один дома или на работе, двигайтесь медленно.

So at the beginning of this practice when you’re alone at home or working, go slowly.

Так как это только происходит, когда он остается один дома, это может быть трудно удалить поведение через непосредственное обучение.

Since this is only happening when he is alone at home, it may be difficult to remove the behavior through direct training.

Конечно, если кто-то один дома и выпил стакан любимого напитка, это не значит, что есть проблема.

Of course, if someone is alone at home and has a glass of their favorite drink, it does not mean there is a problem.

Он проводил много времени один дома.

При этом он испытывал страх, особенно когда был один дома.

I was so scared then, specially when I was alone at home.

Правила поведения, когда ты один дома

И я остался один дома на неделю.

Пой для себя, когда ты один дома.

Если в школе у вашего ребенка не получается стабилизировать мяч, обязательно используйте один дома во время домашней работы.

If your child’s school will not allow a stability ball, be sure to use one at home during homework.

Вечер вторника, я один дома.

Сообщите непосредственным соседям, что ваш ребенок остается один дома на несколько дней.

Inform immediate neighbors that your child may be home alone on some days.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Предложения, которые содержат один дома

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Home Alone
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Written by	John Hughes
Produced by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin Joe Pesci Daniel Stern John Heard Roberts Blossom Catherine O’Hara
Cinematography	Julio Macat
Edited by	Raja Gosnell
Music by	John Williams
Production company	Hughes Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	November 10, 1990 (Chicago) November 16, 1990 (United States)
Running time	103 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million[2]
Box office	$476.7 million[2]

Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara. Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.

Hughes conceived Home Alone while on vacation, with Warner Bros. being originally intended to finance and distribute the film. However, Warner Bros. shut down production after it exceeded its assigned budget. 20th Century Fox assumed responsibilities following secret meetings with Hughes. Columbus and Culkin were hired soon afterwards. Filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois.

Home Alone premiered in Chicago on November 10, 1990, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 16, and it received positive reviews, with praise for its cast, humor, and music. Home Alone grossed $476.7 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing live-action comedy until the release of The Hangover Part II (2011), and made Culkin a child star. Moreover, it was the second-highest-grossing film of 1990, behind Ghost.^[3] It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Culkin, and for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for John Williams, and Best Original Song for «Somewhere in My Memory». Home Alone has since been considered one of the best Christmas films.^[4][5] A sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, was released in 1992.

Plot[edit]

The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Kate and Peter’s home in a Chicago suburb on the night before their departure. Kate and Peter’s youngest son, Kevin, is the subject of ridicule by his older siblings and cousins. Kevin inadvertently ruins the family dinner after a brief scuffle with his oldest brother Buzz, in which Kevin’s airplane ticket is accidentally thrown away, resulting in Kate sending him up to the attic. Kevin berates his mother for allowing the rest of the family to pick on him and wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds create a power outage, disabling the alarm clocks and causing the family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind.

Kevin wakes to find the house empty, and the family cars still in the garage, unaware that they had rented vans to take them to the airport. Thinking that his wish has come true, he is overjoyed with his newfound freedom. Later, Kevin becomes frightened by his next door neighbor, «Old Man» Marley, who is rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family. The McCallister home is soon stalked by the «Wet Bandits», Harry and Marv, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses in the neighborhood. Kevin tricks them into thinking that his family is still home, forcing them to postpone their plans to rob the McCallister house.

Kate realizes mid-flight that Kevin was left behind, and upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights for the next two days are booked, and that the phone lines are still down back home in Chicago. Peter and the rest of the family stay in his brother’s apartment in Paris, while Kate manages to get a flight back to Scranton, Pennsylvania. She tries to find a flight to Chicago, but all the flights are booked. Kate is overheard by Gus Polinski, the lead member of a traveling polka band, who offers to let her travel with them to Chicago in a moving van.

Meanwhile, on Christmas Eve, Harry and Marv finally realize that only Kevin is in the McCallister home, and Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into the house that night. Kevin starts to miss his family and asks the local Santa Claus impersonator if he could bring his family back for Christmas. He goes to church and watches a choir perform, and encounters Marley, who proves the rumors about him are false. Marley points out his granddaughter in the choir, and mentions he has never met her since she is the daughter of his estranged son. Kevin suggests to Marley that he should reconcile with his son.

Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries. While Harry and Marv pursue Kevin around the house, he calls the police and lures the duo into a vacant neighboring house which they had previously broken into. Harry and Marv ambush Kevin and prepare to get their revenge, but Marley intervenes and knocks them out with his snow shovel. The police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses that they broke into due to their habit of flooding them.

On Christmas Day, Kevin is initially disappointed to find that his family is still gone, but Kate arrives home and they reconcile. The rest of the family then returns after waiting in Paris until they could obtain a direct flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry’s knocked-out gold tooth. Kevin then watches Marley reuniting with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Writer and producer John Hughes conceived Home Alone while preparing to go on vacation. He said: «I was going away on vacation, and making a list of everything I didn’t want to forget. I thought, ‘Well, I’d better not forget my kids.’ Then I thought, ‘What if I left my 10-year-old son at home? What would he do?‘«^[6] Hughes wrote eight pages of notes that developed into the screenplay.^[6] Imagining that children are naturally most scared of robbers, Hughes also worked that aspect into the plot of the film.^[6]

Home Alone was initially set to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros. Hughes promised that he could make the movie for less than $10 million, considerably less than most feature film production budgets of that era. Concerned that the film might exceed that amount, Hughes met secretly with 20th Century Fox before production to see if they would fund the project if Warner proved inflexible. According to executive producer Scott Rosenfelt, a copy of the script was «clandestinely» delivered to Fox, bypassing the legal restrictions that would have otherwise prevented Fox from seeing it until the project was in turnaround.^[7] Early in production, the budget grew to $14.7 million. Warner demanded that it be cut by $1.2 million; the producers responded with a memo arguing that the budget could not be cut any further. Unconvinced, Warner shut down production the next day, but it quickly resumed when Fox took up Hughes on his offer. The final budget grew to $18 million.^[7]

Hughes had asked Patrick Read Johnson to direct, but he was committed to directing Spaced Invaders.^[8] He turned to Chris Columbus, who had left National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation before shooting started because of a personality clash with starring actor Chevy Chase, who Columbus said treated him «like dirt».^[9] Hughes gave him the scripts for both Home Alone and Reach the Rock; Columbus chose to direct Home Alone, as he found it funnier and liked the Christmas theme.^[10][11] Columbus did an uncredited rewrite of the script, which included the character Old Man Marley. He added the character to give the story a more serious layer, as well as a more emotional, happier ending.^[12]

Casting[edit]

Hughes suggested to Columbus that they cast Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, because of his experience while shooting Uncle Buck. Columbus met with 200 other actors for the part, as he felt it was his «directorial responsibility».^[11][13] John Mulaney was asked to audition for the role of Kevin after being scouted in a children’s sketch comedy group, but his parents refused the opportunity.^[14] Columbus finally met with Culkin and agreed he was the right choice.^[11]

After Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz turned down the role of Harry, Joe Pesci accepted it.^[15] The role of Uncle Frank was written for Kelsey Grammer, but was given to Gerry Bamman when Grammer was unavailable.^[16][17]

Daniel Stern was cast as Marv, but before shooting started, he was told that the production schedule had been extended from six weeks to eight. He dropped out after as he would not be paid more for the extended schedule. Daniel Roebuck was hired to replace him, but after two days of rehearsal, Columbus felt he was lacking chemistry with Pesci and brought back Stern.^[7] Roebuck later said that, although he was upset to be fired from the production, he now believed the experience was «a little blip of unimportance».^[18] Chris Farley auditioned for the role of the Santa Claus impersonator, but he failed to impress Columbus.^[19]

John Candy was available for only one day to film his scenes, which took 23 hours to shoot. He was paid only $414, since he did the film as a favor to Hughes. In return, he was the only actor Hughes allowed to go off-script; according to Columbus, all his dialogue was improvised.^[7]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography took place from February 14, 1990, to May 8, 1990, over a course of 83 days.^[20][21] The house exterior scenes were filmed on location at a three-story single-family house located at 671 Lincoln Avenue^[22] in the North Shore village of Winnetka, Illinois, where Hughes’s previous films Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having a Baby, and Uncle Buck had also been shot.^[23] The only interiors of the house used for filming in the film were the main staircase, basement, attic and most of the first floor landing,^[24] while all the other interiors of the house (including the aforementioned rooms) were duplicated on a sound stage to allow more room for equipment and crew. It was built in the gym and empty swimming pool of the former New Trier High School building, previously used by Hughes for Uncle Buck and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where the production company had already set up its offices.^[7] The house later became a tourist attraction.^[25] The tree house in the back yard was built specifically for the film and dismantled after filming ended.^[15] Kevin runs away from Marley in Hubbard Woods Park in Winnetka.^[26] The church exteriors were shot at Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette, Illinois, while the interiors were shot at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, Illinois.^[27]

For the film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls (the title of which parodies the 1938 crime film Angels with Dirty Faces), shooting took only one day, on the final «test day» prior to the official start of principal photography. To create the illusion that the film was an authentic 1940s gangster film, the scene was filmed on black-and-white negative film, and Johnny’s office featured props from that era. Like much of the film, most of the sequence was shot with low, wide angles that, according to journalist Darryn King, «capture the action as if a child were perceiving it».^[28]

Cinematographer Julio Macat recalled that Pesci was more difficult to work with than Culkin. The older actor believed some of the dialogue was not of a quality commensurate with his acting ability. He also resented the early unit calls, since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he preferred to do.^[7] After he took the assistant director by the collar one day to complain about this, daily call times were moved back from 7 to 9 a.m. to accommodate his rounds.^[29] On the other end of the schedule, the crew had limited time to film the many nighttime scenes, since Culkin could not work any later than 10 p.m. due to his age.^[11]

Pesci said in a 2022 interview with People of working with Culkin, «I intentionally limited my interactions with him to preserve the dynamic» and made sure not «to come across on the screen that we were in any way friendly» in order to «maintain the integrity of the adversarial relationship.»^[30]

On the set, Pesci and Stern both had difficulty refraining from cursing, which became annoying to Pesci, since Culkin was on set as well. In fact, the only curse words that made it into the film was «shit», accidentally said by Daniel Stern when his shoe fell through the pet door, and «hell», which was said by both Pesci and Stern after their characters encounter one another after going through Kevin’s booby traps and by Johnny to the character of Snakes in Angels with Filthy Souls.^[31][13] Pesci’s use of «cartoon cursing», or menacing gibberish, garnered comparisons to Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam.^[32]

The film’s stunts also created tension for the crew during shooting. Columbus said, «Every time the stunt guys did one of those stunts it wasn’t funny. We’d watch it, and I would just pray that the guys were alive.»^[11][33] Stunts were originally prepared with safety harnesses, but because of their visibility on camera, the film’s final stunts were performed without them.^[11] Troy Brown and Leon Delaney were stuntmen for Pesci and Stern, respectively.^[34] An injury had occurred between Pesci and Culkin during one of the rehearsals for the scene in which Harry tries to bite off Kevin’s finger. Culkin still has the scar.^[13] The tarantula that walks on Stern’s face was real.^[34]

Senta Moses, who played Tracy, recalled in 2020 that one of the most difficult scenes to shoot was the family’s run through O’Hare International Airport to catch their flight. While it does not last long, it required several days to film. «There were thousands of extras, all expertly choreographed so none of us would be in danger running at full speed through the American Airlines terminal», she told The Hollywood Reporter. «And we ran at full speed. Sometimes we’d bump into each other, like a multi-car pileup on the expressway, and just crack up laughing … There were so many setups and narrowly missed moments of disaster, but to my knowledge, no one got hurt.»^[35]

Music[edit]

Columbus initially hoped to have Bruce Broughton score the film, and early posters listed him as the composer. However, Broughton was busy with The Rescuers Down Under, and he had to cancel at the last minute.^[11] Columbus was later able to get in touch with Steven Spielberg, who helped him contact John Williams to produce the final score.^[11] Traditional Christmas songs, such as «O Holy Night» and «Carol of the Bells», are featured prominently in the film, as well as the film’s theme song «Somewhere in My Memory». The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical Records on cassette on December 4, 1990,^[36] and on CD on May 27, 2015.^[37]

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Home Alone premiered in Chicago on November 10, 1990.^[38] It was given a wide release on November 16, 1990.^[39]

Home media[edit]

Home Alone was first released by Fox Video on VHS and LaserDisc in the United States on August 22, 1991,^[40] their first video to go direct to sell-through rather than to the video rental market first.^[41] It sold 11 million copies, generating Fox revenue of $150 million^[42] making it, along with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the highest-selling video of all time at that point.^[41] Due to the sales, the film did not perform as well in the rental market.^[41]

It was later released on DVD on October 5, 1999, as a basic package.^[43] The film was released on Blu-ray on December 2, 2008, titled Family Fun Edition,^[44] and was released alongside Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in a collection pack on October 5, 2010.^[45] The film was reissued again on DVD and Blu-ray on October 6, 2015, alongside all four of its sequels in a box set titled Home Alone: 25th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Christmas Edition.^[46]

On September 15, 2020, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment released Home Alone on Ultra HD Blu-ray in time for its 30th anniversary in the United States.^[47]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Home Alone grossed $285.8 million in the United States and Canada and $190.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $476.7 million, against a production budget of $18 million.^[2] In its opening weekend, Home Alone grossed $17 million from 1,202 theaters, averaging $14,211 per site and just 6% of the final total and added screens over the next six weeks, with a peak screen count of 2,174 during its eighth weekend at the start of January 1991.^[48]

Home Alone was the number-one film at the box office for 12 consecutive weeks, from its release weekend of November 16–18, 1990 through the weekend of February 1–3, 1991.^[49][48] It was removed from the top spot when Sleeping with the Enemy opened with $13 million.^[48] It remained in the top ten until the weekend of April 26, well past Easter weekend. It made two more appearances in the top ten (the weekend of May 31 – June 2 and the weekend of June 14–16) before finally falling out of the top ten.^[50] After over nine months into its run, the film had earned 16x its debut weekend and ended up making a final gross of $285,761,243, the top-grossing film of its year in North America.^[51] The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever^[52] and held the record until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011.^[53]

By the time the film had run its course in theaters, Home Alone was the third-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as in the United States and Canada behind only Star Wars ($322 million at the time) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ($399 million at the time), according to the home video box. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 67.7 million tickets in the United States.^[2] It was also the highest-grossing Christmas film until it was surpassed by Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch in 2018.^[54][55] The film made Culkin a child star.^[56]

Critical response[edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Home Alone uneven but frequently funny premise stretched unreasonably thin is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin’s cute performance and strong supporting stars.»^[57] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on nine critics, indicating «generally favorable reviews».^[58] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «A» on an A+ to F scale.^[59]

Variety magazine praised the film for its cast.^[60] Jeanne Cooper of The Washington Post praised the film for its comedic approach.^[61] Hal Hinson, also of The Washington Post, praised Columbus’ direction and Culkin’s performance.^[62] Although Caryn James of The New York Times complained that the film’s first half is «flat and unsurprising as its cute little premise suggests», she praised the second half for its slapstick humor. She also praised the dialogue between Kevin and Marley, as well as the film’s final scenes.^[63] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a 2+1⁄2 out of a 4-star rating and 2 thumbs down. He compared the elaborate booby-traps in the film to Rube Goldberg machines, writing «they’re the kinds of traps that any 8-year-old could devise, if he had a budget of tens of thousands of dollars and the assistance of a crew of movie special effects people» and criticized the plot as «so implausible that it makes it hard for [him] to really care about the plight of the kid [Kevin]». However, he praised Culkin’s performance.^[64]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly magazine gave the film a «D» grade, criticizing the film for its «sadistic festival of adult-bashing». Gleiberman said that «[John] Hughes is pulling our strings as though he’d never learn to do anything else».^[65] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film three out of five and praised Culkin’s «vivid screen presence, almost incandescent with confidence». However, he criticised his acting, calling it «a bit broad and mannered».^[56] Ali Barclay of the BBC wrote «Culkin walks a fine line between annoyance and endearment throughout the film.» He also called Home Alone «a film which manages to capture some of the best qualities of Christmas».^[66]

Naomi Barnwell of Roobla said that «Home Alone has all the ingredients that make for a great kids’ film».^[67] Adrian Turner of Radio Times commented «[Home Alone is] a celebration of enterprise that captured the heart and wickedness of every child on the planet.»^[68] According to TV Guide, «[Home Alone]’s slapstick falls flat and only the pain remains.»^[69] Marielle Sabbag of Vocal wrote «Everything about [Home Alone] is beautiful and has a realistic quality.»^[70] Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times criticised the fact that «there is a reason why this film plays better as a trailer than as a full-length film.»^[71]

Home Alone gradually became a Christmas classic.^{[72][73][74][75]} It was praised for its quotable phrases,^[76] morals,^[77] traps,^[78] and main character.^[79] Hannah-Rose Yee of Stylist called the ending «very sweet» and praised the score from John Williams, calling it «fantastic».^[80] Christopher Hooton of The Independent also praised the film, calling the film-within-a-film Angels with Filthy Souls «a fond footnote in cinema history».^[81] Matt Talbot from Simcoe.com said that the Wet Bandits were «fantastic» and «never [got] old» on «repeat viewings».^[82] Michael Walsh of Nerdist noted the church scene as «One of the best, most touching scenes [in the film]».^[83]

Home Alone remains a highly popular Christmas movie in Poland, when it is played on Polsat every Christmas Eve. In 2010, Polsat did not play Home Alone, which caused over 90,000 people to protest on Facebook.^[84] In 2016, over 4.44 million Poles tuned in to Polsat to watch Home Alone. Since the 2010s, its TV trailers even include a tagline that acknowledges this popularity: «Christmas without him? It’s absolutely impossible!».^[85]

Julio Macat, the films cinematographer, considers Home Alone his favorite film out of all the projects he has shot. It was the favorite film of former U.S. President Gerald Ford.^[86]

Accolades[edit]

At the 12th Youth in Film Awards, Macaulay Culkin won Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture.^[87] The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Original Score, which was written by John Williams, and the other for Best Original Song for «Somewhere in My Memory», music by Williams and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, but lost to Dances with Wolves and Dick Tracy respectively.^[88]

Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
Academy Awards[89]	Best Original Score	John Williams	Nominated
Best Original Song	«Somewhere in My Memory» Music by John Williams; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse	Nominated
American Comedy Awards[90]	Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Artios Awards[91]	Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Comedy	Jane Jenkins and Jane Hirshenson	Won
BMI Film & TV Awards	Film Music Award	John Williams	Won
British Comedy Awards[92]	Best Comedy Film	Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[93]	Most Promising Actor	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Golden Globe Awards[94]	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Macaulay Culkin	Nominated
Golden Screen Awards	Won
Grammy Awards[95]	Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television	«Somewhere in My Memory» Music by John Williams; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse	Nominated
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie	Won
Online Film & Television Association Awards[96]	Hall of Fame – Motion Picture	Won
Young Artist Awards[97]	Most Entertaining Family Youth Motion Picture – Comedy/Action	Won
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Angela Goethals	Nominated

Accusations of plagiarism[edit]

The 1989 French horror thriller film 3615 code Père Noël, which is about a young boy who is home alone with his elderly grandfather and has to fend off a home invader dressed up as Santa Claus, has been noted for its plot similarities to Home Alone.^[98] 3615 code Père Noël director René Manzor threatened the producers of Home Alone with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that Home Alone was a remake of his film.^[99][100] 3615 code Père Noël was not released in the United States during its original theatrical run in January 1990 and did not become widely available there until 2018.^[101][102]

Homages[edit]

The music video for Snoop Dogg’s 1994 song «Gin and Juice» opens with a gag where, after a teenaged Snoop’s parents have left him to watch the house in their absence, he places his hands to his face and yells in the manner of Kevin McCallister in the first film, while a title comes on screen reading «Home Boy Alone».^[103]

In December 2015, Culkin reprised his role as an adult Kevin McCallister in the inaugural episode of the Jack Dishel web series, «DRYVRS», where a visibly disturbed Kevin recounts his experience of being left home alone by his family.^[104] In response to Culkin’s video, Daniel Stern appeared in a short video reprising his role as Marv, released in conjunction with Stern’s Reddit AMA, where he pleads for Harry to return to help protect him against Kevin’s traps.^[105]

The 2016 Christmas-set horror film Better Watch Out includes a scene where a character who is obsessed with the Home Alone films demonstrates how, in real life, it would be deadly for someone to be hit in the face with a paint can swung from a distance.^[106]

The season 13 episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, «Charlie’s Home Alone», is intended to be a direct parody of the first Home Alone film. In the episode Charlie Kelly is accidentally forgotten while the rest of «the gang» attend Super Bowl LII. Charlie mistakingly believes he must protect the bar by setting up traps, only for himself to accidentally activate said traps, nearly preventing from preforming his Super Bowl «rituals».^[107]

On December 15, 2018, Culkin made a guest appearance as himself in an episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd to review multiple video game adaptations of the first two Home Alone films, as well as a gameplay session of The Pagemaster with James Rolfe and Mike Matei in the days following that episode’s release.^[108]

On December 19, 2018, Culkin again reprised his role as Kevin McCallister in a 60-second advertisement for Google Assistant, titled Home Alone Again. The commercial contains shot for shot remakes of scenes from the film. Google Assistant helps Kevin set up the house to look active by remotely turning on lights, devices, and setting up cutouts of people, to have the thieves parked in a van outside (presumably Harry and Marv) steer clear of the house.^[109] Additionally, Pesci also reprised his role as Harry, only for his voice making a small cameo. Pesci later appeared in another ad where he watches the short with his friends and jokes about his brief cameo.^[110]

The 2022 action comedy film Violent Night references Home Alone several times, and character Trudy Lightston attempts to emulate Kevin McCallister’s fighting tactics against the burglars who take her family hostage.

Use in Poland[edit]

Films such as Home Alone and Die Hard are very popular at Christmas time in Poland, because they were some of the first Western movies to be released in Poland since the end of communist rule.^{[111][112][113]} However, the Polish premiere of «Home Alone» took place not during the Christmas season, but on May 22, 1992.^[114] Three years later, on Christmas Day (December 25), 1995, at 20:10 CET on TVP1, the Polish television premiere of the film took place. Then three times on December 26, 1997, and December 24 and 25, 1999, the film was broadcast on television TVN.^[115]
In 29 December 2000, 8.9 million Poles were watching Home Alone on Christmas Eve;^[116] At that time, the broadcasting of the film was taken over by the only nationwide TV station, Polsat (TVN was broadcasting terrestrial broadcasts only in larger cities at that time), which continues it every year (with the exception of 2002, when the third part of the film was broadcast on January 1, 2003) to the present. It is Polsat that is mainly responsible for the popularity of the film «Home Alone» in Poland. On Polsat from 2000 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2013, the film «Home Alone» was broadcast alternatively both during the Christmas season (for the first time on December 24, 2003) and in the period preceding it (then the sequel of the film, i.e. «Home Alone 2: Lost in New York» or both films appeared on Polsat in the pre-Christmas or post-Christmas period, but not later than before New Year’s Eve.
In 2010, Telewizja Polsat did not include the film in the Christmas schedule, which was met with a protest of over 90,000 people on Facebook. Under the pressure of public opinion, Polsat changed its mind, however, broadcasting the film on Christmas Day (December 25) at 20:00 CET and additionally on Boxing Day (December 26) at 12:45 CET. ^[117]
Starting from 2014 (except for 2015, when the film was broadcast only on Christmas Day, i.e. December 25 at 16:40 CET, the comedy «Home Alone» is shown on Polsat every Christmas Eve (December 24) around 20:00 CET.

In 2017, about four million people (11.6% of Poland’s population) were watching it on Christmas Eve and in 2018 again in Christmas Eve the film recorded the highest viewership with 4.51 million viewers. ^[118]

Other media[edit]

Novelization[edit]

Home Alone (ISBN 0-590-55066-7) was novelized by Todd Strasser and published by Scholastic in 1990 to coincide with the film.^[119] On October 6, 2015, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie, an illustrated book (ISBN 1-594-74858-6) by Kim Smith and Quirk Books was released.^[120][121]

Sequels and franchise[edit]

The film was followed by a commercially successful sequel in 1992, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which brought back most of the first film’s cast. Culkin was paid $4.5 million to appear in the sequel, compared to $110,000 for the original.^[122] The film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls, had a sequel in Home Alone 2, Angels with Even Filthier Souls. Both Angels meta-films featured character actor Ralph Foody as stereotypical 1930s mobster Johnny.^[123] A third film, Home Alone 3, was released in 1997; it has entirely different actors and characters as well as a different storyline, with Hughes writing the screenplay.^[124]

A fourth made-for-TV film followed in 2002: Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House. The movie features some of the same characters who were in the first two films, but with a new cast and a storyline.^[125] The fifth film, The Holiday Heist, premiered during ABC Family’s Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas programming event on November 25, 2012.^[126] Similarly to the third film, it does not focus on the McCallister family.^[127] Chris Columbus later revealed that there had been discussions on a sequel starring Kevin’s son: «This was talked about maybe 10 years ago – I don’t know, we were just having fun with it – and we said, ‘What if Kevin is an adult and he has a kid?’ But it was still Pesci and Stern – Pesci and Stern are still obsessed with this kid. They’re going to get this kid.»^[128]

A sixth film was released digitally on Disney+ on November 12, 2021, titled Home Sweet Home Alone.^[129] Devin Ratray, who played Buzz McCallister in the first two films, reprised his role in the film.^[129]

See also[edit]

• List of films featuring home invasions, a plot device in thriller films that Home Alone lampoons^[130]
• List of films featuring fictional films
• List of Christmas films
• Home Alone (video game)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Home Alone at IMDb
• Home Alone at the TCM Movie Database

Home Alone
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Written by	John Hughes
Produced by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin Joe Pesci Daniel Stern John Heard Roberts Blossom Catherine O’Hara
Cinematography	Julio Macat
Edited by	Raja Gosnell
Music by	John Williams
Production company	Hughes Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	November 10, 1990 (Chicago) November 16, 1990 (United States)
Running time	103 minutes[1]
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$18 million[2]
Box office	$476.7 million[2]

Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara. Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.

Hughes conceived Home Alone while on vacation, with Warner Bros. being originally intended to finance and distribute the film. However, Warner Bros. shut down production after it exceeded its assigned budget. 20th Century Fox assumed responsibilities following secret meetings with Hughes. Columbus and Culkin were hired soon afterwards. Filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois.

Home Alone premiered in Chicago on November 10, 1990, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 16, and it received positive reviews, with praise for its cast, humor, and music. Home Alone grossed $476.7 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing live-action comedy until the release of The Hangover Part II (2011), and made Culkin a child star. Moreover, it was the second-highest-grossing film of 1990, behind Ghost.^[3] It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Culkin, and for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for John Williams, and Best Original Song for «Somewhere in My Memory». Home Alone has since been considered one of the best Christmas films.^[4][5] A sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, was released in 1992.

Plot[edit]

The McCallister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Kate and Peter’s home in a Chicago suburb on the night before their departure. Kate and Peter’s youngest son, Kevin, is the subject of ridicule by his older siblings and cousins. Kevin inadvertently ruins the family dinner after a brief scuffle with his oldest brother Buzz, in which Kevin’s airplane ticket is accidentally thrown away, resulting in Kate sending him up to the attic. Kevin berates his mother for allowing the rest of the family to pick on him and wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds create a power outage, disabling the alarm clocks and causing the family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind.

Kevin wakes to find the house empty, and the family cars still in the garage, unaware that they had rented vans to take them to the airport. Thinking that his wish has come true, he is overjoyed with his newfound freedom. Later, Kevin becomes frightened by his next door neighbor, «Old Man» Marley, who is rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family. The McCallister home is soon stalked by the «Wet Bandits», Harry and Marv, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses in the neighborhood. Kevin tricks them into thinking that his family is still home, forcing them to postpone their plans to rob the McCallister house.

Kate realizes mid-flight that Kevin was left behind, and upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights for the next two days are booked, and that the phone lines are still down back home in Chicago. Peter and the rest of the family stay in his brother’s apartment in Paris, while Kate manages to get a flight back to Scranton, Pennsylvania. She tries to find a flight to Chicago, but all the flights are booked. Kate is overheard by Gus Polinski, the lead member of a traveling polka band, who offers to let her travel with them to Chicago in a moving van.

Meanwhile, on Christmas Eve, Harry and Marv finally realize that only Kevin is in the McCallister home, and Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into the house that night. Kevin starts to miss his family and asks the local Santa Claus impersonator if he could bring his family back for Christmas. He goes to church and watches a choir perform, and encounters Marley, who proves the rumors about him are false. Marley points out his granddaughter in the choir, and mentions he has never met her since she is the daughter of his estranged son. Kevin suggests to Marley that he should reconcile with his son.

Kevin returns home and rigs the house with booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries. While Harry and Marv pursue Kevin around the house, he calls the police and lures the duo into a vacant neighboring house which they had previously broken into. Harry and Marv ambush Kevin and prepare to get their revenge, but Marley intervenes and knocks them out with his snow shovel. The police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses that they broke into due to their habit of flooding them.

On Christmas Day, Kevin is initially disappointed to find that his family is still gone, but Kate arrives home and they reconcile. The rest of the family then returns after waiting in Paris until they could obtain a direct flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harry’s knocked-out gold tooth. Kevin then watches Marley reuniting with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Writer and producer John Hughes conceived Home Alone while preparing to go on vacation. He said: «I was going away on vacation, and making a list of everything I didn’t want to forget. I thought, ‘Well, I’d better not forget my kids.’ Then I thought, ‘What if I left my 10-year-old son at home? What would he do?‘«^[6] Hughes wrote eight pages of notes that developed into the screenplay.^[6] Imagining that children are naturally most scared of robbers, Hughes also worked that aspect into the plot of the film.^[6]

Home Alone was initially set to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros. Hughes promised that he could make the movie for less than $10 million, considerably less than most feature film production budgets of that era. Concerned that the film might exceed that amount, Hughes met secretly with 20th Century Fox before production to see if they would fund the project if Warner proved inflexible. According to executive producer Scott Rosenfelt, a copy of the script was «clandestinely» delivered to Fox, bypassing the legal restrictions that would have otherwise prevented Fox from seeing it until the project was in turnaround.^[7] Early in production, the budget grew to $14.7 million. Warner demanded that it be cut by $1.2 million; the producers responded with a memo arguing that the budget could not be cut any further. Unconvinced, Warner shut down production the next day, but it quickly resumed when Fox took up Hughes on his offer. The final budget grew to $18 million.^[7]

Hughes had asked Patrick Read Johnson to direct, but he was committed to directing Spaced Invaders.^[8] He turned to Chris Columbus, who had left National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation before shooting started because of a personality clash with starring actor Chevy Chase, who Columbus said treated him «like dirt».^[9] Hughes gave him the scripts for both Home Alone and Reach the Rock; Columbus chose to direct Home Alone, as he found it funnier and liked the Christmas theme.^[10][11] Columbus did an uncredited rewrite of the script, which included the character Old Man Marley. He added the character to give the story a more serious layer, as well as a more emotional, happier ending.^[12]

Casting[edit]

Hughes suggested to Columbus that they cast Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, because of his experience while shooting Uncle Buck. Columbus met with 200 other actors for the part, as he felt it was his «directorial responsibility».^[11][13] John Mulaney was asked to audition for the role of Kevin after being scouted in a children’s sketch comedy group, but his parents refused the opportunity.^[14] Columbus finally met with Culkin and agreed he was the right choice.^[11]

After Robert De Niro and Jon Lovitz turned down the role of Harry, Joe Pesci accepted it.^[15] The role of Uncle Frank was written for Kelsey Grammer, but was given to Gerry Bamman when Grammer was unavailable.^[16][17]

Daniel Stern was cast as Marv, but before shooting started, he was told that the production schedule had been extended from six weeks to eight. He dropped out after as he would not be paid more for the extended schedule. Daniel Roebuck was hired to replace him, but after two days of rehearsal, Columbus felt he was lacking chemistry with Pesci and brought back Stern.^[7] Roebuck later said that, although he was upset to be fired from the production, he now believed the experience was «a little blip of unimportance».^[18] Chris Farley auditioned for the role of the Santa Claus impersonator, but he failed to impress Columbus.^[19]

John Candy was available for only one day to film his scenes, which took 23 hours to shoot. He was paid only $414, since he did the film as a favor to Hughes. In return, he was the only actor Hughes allowed to go off-script; according to Columbus, all his dialogue was improvised.^[7]

Filming[edit]

Principal photography took place from February 14, 1990, to May 8, 1990, over a course of 83 days.^[20][21] The house exterior scenes were filmed on location at a three-story single-family house located at 671 Lincoln Avenue^[22] in the North Shore village of Winnetka, Illinois, where Hughes’s previous films Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Sixteen Candles, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, She’s Having a Baby, and Uncle Buck had also been shot.^[23] The only interiors of the house used for filming in the film were the main staircase, basement, attic and most of the first floor landing,^[24] while all the other interiors of the house (including the aforementioned rooms) were duplicated on a sound stage to allow more room for equipment and crew. It was built in the gym and empty swimming pool of the former New Trier High School building, previously used by Hughes for Uncle Buck and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where the production company had already set up its offices.^[7] The house later became a tourist attraction.^[25] The tree house in the back yard was built specifically for the film and dismantled after filming ended.^[15] Kevin runs away from Marley in Hubbard Woods Park in Winnetka.^[26] The church exteriors were shot at Trinity United Methodist Church in Wilmette, Illinois, while the interiors were shot at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park, Illinois.^[27]

For the film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls (the title of which parodies the 1938 crime film Angels with Dirty Faces), shooting took only one day, on the final «test day» prior to the official start of principal photography. To create the illusion that the film was an authentic 1940s gangster film, the scene was filmed on black-and-white negative film, and Johnny’s office featured props from that era. Like much of the film, most of the sequence was shot with low, wide angles that, according to journalist Darryn King, «capture the action as if a child were perceiving it».^[28]

Cinematographer Julio Macat recalled that Pesci was more difficult to work with than Culkin. The older actor believed some of the dialogue was not of a quality commensurate with his acting ability. He also resented the early unit calls, since they prevented him from starting his day with nine holes of golf as he preferred to do.^[7] After he took the assistant director by the collar one day to complain about this, daily call times were moved back from 7 to 9 a.m. to accommodate his rounds.^[29] On the other end of the schedule, the crew had limited time to film the many nighttime scenes, since Culkin could not work any later than 10 p.m. due to his age.^[11]

Pesci said in a 2022 interview with People of working with Culkin, «I intentionally limited my interactions with him to preserve the dynamic» and made sure not «to come across on the screen that we were in any way friendly» in order to «maintain the integrity of the adversarial relationship.»^[30]

On the set, Pesci and Stern both had difficulty refraining from cursing, which became annoying to Pesci, since Culkin was on set as well. In fact, the only curse words that made it into the film was «shit», accidentally said by Daniel Stern when his shoe fell through the pet door, and «hell», which was said by both Pesci and Stern after their characters encounter one another after going through Kevin’s booby traps and by Johnny to the character of Snakes in Angels with Filthy Souls.^[31][13] Pesci’s use of «cartoon cursing», or menacing gibberish, garnered comparisons to Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam.^[32]

The film’s stunts also created tension for the crew during shooting. Columbus said, «Every time the stunt guys did one of those stunts it wasn’t funny. We’d watch it, and I would just pray that the guys were alive.»^[11][33] Stunts were originally prepared with safety harnesses, but because of their visibility on camera, the film’s final stunts were performed without them.^[11] Troy Brown and Leon Delaney were stuntmen for Pesci and Stern, respectively.^[34] An injury had occurred between Pesci and Culkin during one of the rehearsals for the scene in which Harry tries to bite off Kevin’s finger. Culkin still has the scar.^[13] The tarantula that walks on Stern’s face was real.^[34]

Senta Moses, who played Tracy, recalled in 2020 that one of the most difficult scenes to shoot was the family’s run through O’Hare International Airport to catch their flight. While it does not last long, it required several days to film. «There were thousands of extras, all expertly choreographed so none of us would be in danger running at full speed through the American Airlines terminal», she told The Hollywood Reporter. «And we ran at full speed. Sometimes we’d bump into each other, like a multi-car pileup on the expressway, and just crack up laughing … There were so many setups and narrowly missed moments of disaster, but to my knowledge, no one got hurt.»^[35]

Music[edit]

Columbus initially hoped to have Bruce Broughton score the film, and early posters listed him as the composer. However, Broughton was busy with The Rescuers Down Under, and he had to cancel at the last minute.^[11] Columbus was later able to get in touch with Steven Spielberg, who helped him contact John Williams to produce the final score.^[11] Traditional Christmas songs, such as «O Holy Night» and «Carol of the Bells», are featured prominently in the film, as well as the film’s theme song «Somewhere in My Memory». The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical Records on cassette on December 4, 1990,^[36] and on CD on May 27, 2015.^[37]

Release[edit]

Theatrical[edit]

Home Alone premiered in Chicago on November 10, 1990.^[38] It was given a wide release on November 16, 1990.^[39]

Home media[edit]

Home Alone was first released by Fox Video on VHS and LaserDisc in the United States on August 22, 1991,^[40] their first video to go direct to sell-through rather than to the video rental market first.^[41] It sold 11 million copies, generating Fox revenue of $150 million^[42] making it, along with E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the highest-selling video of all time at that point.^[41] Due to the sales, the film did not perform as well in the rental market.^[41]

It was later released on DVD on October 5, 1999, as a basic package.^[43] The film was released on Blu-ray on December 2, 2008, titled Family Fun Edition,^[44] and was released alongside Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in a collection pack on October 5, 2010.^[45] The film was reissued again on DVD and Blu-ray on October 6, 2015, alongside all four of its sequels in a box set titled Home Alone: 25th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Christmas Edition.^[46]

On September 15, 2020, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and 20th Century Studios Home Entertainment released Home Alone on Ultra HD Blu-ray in time for its 30th anniversary in the United States.^[47]

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Home Alone grossed $285.8 million in the United States and Canada and $190.9 million in other countries for a worldwide total of $476.7 million, against a production budget of $18 million.^[2] In its opening weekend, Home Alone grossed $17 million from 1,202 theaters, averaging $14,211 per site and just 6% of the final total and added screens over the next six weeks, with a peak screen count of 2,174 during its eighth weekend at the start of January 1991.^[48]

Home Alone was the number-one film at the box office for 12 consecutive weeks, from its release weekend of November 16–18, 1990 through the weekend of February 1–3, 1991.^[49][48] It was removed from the top spot when Sleeping with the Enemy opened with $13 million.^[48] It remained in the top ten until the weekend of April 26, well past Easter weekend. It made two more appearances in the top ten (the weekend of May 31 – June 2 and the weekend of June 14–16) before finally falling out of the top ten.^[50] After over nine months into its run, the film had earned 16x its debut weekend and ended up making a final gross of $285,761,243, the top-grossing film of its year in North America.^[51] The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever^[52] and held the record until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011.^[53]

By the time the film had run its course in theaters, Home Alone was the third-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, as well as in the United States and Canada behind only Star Wars ($322 million at the time) and E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ($399 million at the time), according to the home video box. Box Office Mojo estimates that the film sold over 67.7 million tickets in the United States.^[2] It was also the highest-grossing Christmas film until it was surpassed by Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch in 2018.^[54][55] The film made Culkin a child star.^[56]

Critical response[edit]

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 61 reviews, with an average rating of 5.8/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Home Alone uneven but frequently funny premise stretched unreasonably thin is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin’s cute performance and strong supporting stars.»^[57] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100 based on nine critics, indicating «generally favorable reviews».^[58] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of «A» on an A+ to F scale.^[59]

Variety magazine praised the film for its cast.^[60] Jeanne Cooper of The Washington Post praised the film for its comedic approach.^[61] Hal Hinson, also of The Washington Post, praised Columbus’ direction and Culkin’s performance.^[62] Although Caryn James of The New York Times complained that the film’s first half is «flat and unsurprising as its cute little premise suggests», she praised the second half for its slapstick humor. She also praised the dialogue between Kevin and Marley, as well as the film’s final scenes.^[63] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a 2+1⁄2 out of a 4-star rating and 2 thumbs down. He compared the elaborate booby-traps in the film to Rube Goldberg machines, writing «they’re the kinds of traps that any 8-year-old could devise, if he had a budget of tens of thousands of dollars and the assistance of a crew of movie special effects people» and criticized the plot as «so implausible that it makes it hard for [him] to really care about the plight of the kid [Kevin]». However, he praised Culkin’s performance.^[64]

Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly magazine gave the film a «D» grade, criticizing the film for its «sadistic festival of adult-bashing». Gleiberman said that «[John] Hughes is pulling our strings as though he’d never learn to do anything else».^[65] Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film three out of five and praised Culkin’s «vivid screen presence, almost incandescent with confidence». However, he criticised his acting, calling it «a bit broad and mannered».^[56] Ali Barclay of the BBC wrote «Culkin walks a fine line between annoyance and endearment throughout the film.» He also called Home Alone «a film which manages to capture some of the best qualities of Christmas».^[66]

Naomi Barnwell of Roobla said that «Home Alone has all the ingredients that make for a great kids’ film».^[67] Adrian Turner of Radio Times commented «[Home Alone is] a celebration of enterprise that captured the heart and wickedness of every child on the planet.»^[68] According to TV Guide, «[Home Alone]’s slapstick falls flat and only the pain remains.»^[69] Marielle Sabbag of Vocal wrote «Everything about [Home Alone] is beautiful and has a realistic quality.»^[70] Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times criticised the fact that «there is a reason why this film plays better as a trailer than as a full-length film.»^[71]

Home Alone gradually became a Christmas classic.^{[72][73][74][75]} It was praised for its quotable phrases,^[76] morals,^[77] traps,^[78] and main character.^[79] Hannah-Rose Yee of Stylist called the ending «very sweet» and praised the score from John Williams, calling it «fantastic».^[80] Christopher Hooton of The Independent also praised the film, calling the film-within-a-film Angels with Filthy Souls «a fond footnote in cinema history».^[81] Matt Talbot from Simcoe.com said that the Wet Bandits were «fantastic» and «never [got] old» on «repeat viewings».^[82] Michael Walsh of Nerdist noted the church scene as «One of the best, most touching scenes [in the film]».^[83]

Home Alone remains a highly popular Christmas movie in Poland, when it is played on Polsat every Christmas Eve. In 2010, Polsat did not play Home Alone, which caused over 90,000 people to protest on Facebook.^[84] In 2016, over 4.44 million Poles tuned in to Polsat to watch Home Alone. Since the 2010s, its TV trailers even include a tagline that acknowledges this popularity: «Christmas without him? It’s absolutely impossible!».^[85]

Julio Macat, the films cinematographer, considers Home Alone his favorite film out of all the projects he has shot. It was the favorite film of former U.S. President Gerald Ford.^[86]

Accolades[edit]

At the 12th Youth in Film Awards, Macaulay Culkin won Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture.^[87] The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, one for Best Original Score, which was written by John Williams, and the other for Best Original Song for «Somewhere in My Memory», music by Williams and lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, but lost to Dances with Wolves and Dick Tracy respectively.^[88]

Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result
Academy Awards[89]	Best Original Score	John Williams	Nominated
Best Original Song	«Somewhere in My Memory» Music by John Williams; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse	Nominated
American Comedy Awards[90]	Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Artios Awards[91]	Outstanding Achievement in Feature Film Casting – Comedy	Jane Jenkins and Jane Hirshenson	Won
BMI Film & TV Awards	Film Music Award	John Williams	Won
British Comedy Awards[92]	Best Comedy Film	Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards[93]	Most Promising Actor	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Golden Globe Awards[94]	Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Nominated
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy	Macaulay Culkin	Nominated
Golden Screen Awards	Won
Grammy Awards[95]	Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television	«Somewhere in My Memory» Music by John Williams; Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse	Nominated
Kids’ Choice Awards	Favorite Movie	Won
Online Film & Television Association Awards[96]	Hall of Fame – Motion Picture	Won
Young Artist Awards[97]	Most Entertaining Family Youth Motion Picture – Comedy/Action	Won
Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture	Macaulay Culkin	Won
Best Young Actress Supporting Role in a Motion Picture	Angela Goethals	Nominated

Accusations of plagiarism[edit]

The 1989 French horror thriller film 3615 code Père Noël, which is about a young boy who is home alone with his elderly grandfather and has to fend off a home invader dressed up as Santa Claus, has been noted for its plot similarities to Home Alone.^[98] 3615 code Père Noël director René Manzor threatened the producers of Home Alone with legal action on the grounds of plagiarism, alleging that Home Alone was a remake of his film.^[99][100] 3615 code Père Noël was not released in the United States during its original theatrical run in January 1990 and did not become widely available there until 2018.^[101][102]

Homages[edit]

The music video for Snoop Dogg’s 1994 song «Gin and Juice» opens with a gag where, after a teenaged Snoop’s parents have left him to watch the house in their absence, he places his hands to his face and yells in the manner of Kevin McCallister in the first film, while a title comes on screen reading «Home Boy Alone».^[103]

In December 2015, Culkin reprised his role as an adult Kevin McCallister in the inaugural episode of the Jack Dishel web series, «DRYVRS», where a visibly disturbed Kevin recounts his experience of being left home alone by his family.^[104] In response to Culkin’s video, Daniel Stern appeared in a short video reprising his role as Marv, released in conjunction with Stern’s Reddit AMA, where he pleads for Harry to return to help protect him against Kevin’s traps.^[105]

The 2016 Christmas-set horror film Better Watch Out includes a scene where a character who is obsessed with the Home Alone films demonstrates how, in real life, it would be deadly for someone to be hit in the face with a paint can swung from a distance.^[106]

The season 13 episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, «Charlie’s Home Alone», is intended to be a direct parody of the first Home Alone film. In the episode Charlie Kelly is accidentally forgotten while the rest of «the gang» attend Super Bowl LII. Charlie mistakingly believes he must protect the bar by setting up traps, only for himself to accidentally activate said traps, nearly preventing from preforming his Super Bowl «rituals».^[107]

On December 15, 2018, Culkin made a guest appearance as himself in an episode of The Angry Video Game Nerd to review multiple video game adaptations of the first two Home Alone films, as well as a gameplay session of The Pagemaster with James Rolfe and Mike Matei in the days following that episode’s release.^[108]

On December 19, 2018, Culkin again reprised his role as Kevin McCallister in a 60-second advertisement for Google Assistant, titled Home Alone Again. The commercial contains shot for shot remakes of scenes from the film. Google Assistant helps Kevin set up the house to look active by remotely turning on lights, devices, and setting up cutouts of people, to have the thieves parked in a van outside (presumably Harry and Marv) steer clear of the house.^[109] Additionally, Pesci also reprised his role as Harry, only for his voice making a small cameo. Pesci later appeared in another ad where he watches the short with his friends and jokes about his brief cameo.^[110]

The 2022 action comedy film Violent Night references Home Alone several times, and character Trudy Lightston attempts to emulate Kevin McCallister’s fighting tactics against the burglars who take her family hostage.

Use in Poland[edit]

Films such as Home Alone and Die Hard are very popular at Christmas time in Poland, because they were some of the first Western movies to be released in Poland since the end of communist rule.^{[111][112][113]} However, the Polish premiere of «Home Alone» took place not during the Christmas season, but on May 22, 1992.^[114] Three years later, on Christmas Day (December 25), 1995, at 20:10 CET on TVP1, the Polish television premiere of the film took place. Then three times on December 26, 1997, and December 24 and 25, 1999, the film was broadcast on television TVN.^[115]
In 29 December 2000, 8.9 million Poles were watching Home Alone on Christmas Eve;^[116] At that time, the broadcasting of the film was taken over by the only nationwide TV station, Polsat (TVN was broadcasting terrestrial broadcasts only in larger cities at that time), which continues it every year (with the exception of 2002, when the third part of the film was broadcast on January 1, 2003) to the present. It is Polsat that is mainly responsible for the popularity of the film «Home Alone» in Poland. On Polsat from 2000 to 2001 and from 2003 to 2013, the film «Home Alone» was broadcast alternatively both during the Christmas season (for the first time on December 24, 2003) and in the period preceding it (then the sequel of the film, i.e. «Home Alone 2: Lost in New York» or both films appeared on Polsat in the pre-Christmas or post-Christmas period, but not later than before New Year’s Eve.
In 2010, Telewizja Polsat did not include the film in the Christmas schedule, which was met with a protest of over 90,000 people on Facebook. Under the pressure of public opinion, Polsat changed its mind, however, broadcasting the film on Christmas Day (December 25) at 20:00 CET and additionally on Boxing Day (December 26) at 12:45 CET. ^[117]
Starting from 2014 (except for 2015, when the film was broadcast only on Christmas Day, i.e. December 25 at 16:40 CET, the comedy «Home Alone» is shown on Polsat every Christmas Eve (December 24) around 20:00 CET.

In 2017, about four million people (11.6% of Poland’s population) were watching it on Christmas Eve and in 2018 again in Christmas Eve the film recorded the highest viewership with 4.51 million viewers. ^[118]

Other media[edit]

Novelization[edit]

Home Alone (ISBN 0-590-55066-7) was novelized by Todd Strasser and published by Scholastic in 1990 to coincide with the film.^[119] On October 6, 2015, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie, an illustrated book (ISBN 1-594-74858-6) by Kim Smith and Quirk Books was released.^[120][121]

Sequels and franchise[edit]

The film was followed by a commercially successful sequel in 1992, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which brought back most of the first film’s cast. Culkin was paid $4.5 million to appear in the sequel, compared to $110,000 for the original.^[122] The film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls, had a sequel in Home Alone 2, Angels with Even Filthier Souls. Both Angels meta-films featured character actor Ralph Foody as stereotypical 1930s mobster Johnny.^[123] A third film, Home Alone 3, was released in 1997; it has entirely different actors and characters as well as a different storyline, with Hughes writing the screenplay.^[124]

A fourth made-for-TV film followed in 2002: Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House. The movie features some of the same characters who were in the first two films, but with a new cast and a storyline.^[125] The fifth film, The Holiday Heist, premiered during ABC Family’s Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas programming event on November 25, 2012.^[126] Similarly to the third film, it does not focus on the McCallister family.^[127] Chris Columbus later revealed that there had been discussions on a sequel starring Kevin’s son: «This was talked about maybe 10 years ago – I don’t know, we were just having fun with it – and we said, ‘What if Kevin is an adult and he has a kid?’ But it was still Pesci and Stern – Pesci and Stern are still obsessed with this kid. They’re going to get this kid.»^[128]

A sixth film was released digitally on Disney+ on November 12, 2021, titled Home Sweet Home Alone.^[129] Devin Ratray, who played Buzz McCallister in the first two films, reprised his role in the film.^[129]

See also[edit]

• List of films featuring home invasions, a plot device in thriller films that Home Alone lampoons^[130]
• List of films featuring fictional films
• List of Christmas films
• Home Alone (video game)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Home Alone at IMDb
• Home Alone at the TCM Movie Database

один дома — перевод на английский

Один дома
Home Alone
Жанр	комедия, семейный фильм, криминал
Режиссёр	Крис Коламбус
Продюсер	Джон Хьюз Марк Рэдклифф Марк Левинсон
Автор сценария	Джон Хьюз
В главных ролях	Маколей Калкин Джо Пеши Дэниэл Стерн Кэтрин О’Хара
Оператор	Хулио Макат
Композитор	Джон Уильямс
Кинокомпания	20th Century Fox Hughes Entertainment
Длительность	103 мин.
Бюджет	$18 000 000
Сборы	$476 684 675
Страна	США
Язык	Английский
Год	1990
IMDb	ID 0099785

«Один дома» (англ. Home Alone) — семейный фильм 1990 года, рождественская комедия. Детям рекомендуется просмотр совместно с родителями (рейтинг PG от MPAA).

Премьера состоялась 10 ноября 1990 года^[1] в кинотеатрах Чикаго, 25 декабря вышел на телеканале FOX. За 29 недель проката во всём мире фильм собрал 476,6 млн долл., что является рекордом для фильмов этого жанра. В 1991 году это было третье место по сборам среди всех фильмов.^[2]

В СССР фильм вышел в прокат в 1991 году (русский дубляж был сделан в Киеве). Помимо этого распространялся на «пиратских» видеокассетах, позже в России, на лицензионных VHS и Laserdisc изданием «Laser Video» с авторским одноголосым русским переводом Алексея Михалёва, известным как «Один без присмотра».

Теглайн: Когда семья Кевина уехала в отпуск, они забыли одну мелочь: Кевина. Но не волнуйтесь… Он готовит. Он моет. Он способен пнуть.

Сюжет

Конец декабря. Пригород Чикаго. Семья Маккалистеров отправляется на рождественские каникулы в Париж. Как обычно накануне поездки, в доме царит переполох. В этой суете никто не замечает самого последнего члена семьи, восьмилетнего Кевина. В дом приходит бандит Гарри Лайм, маскирующийся под полицейского, и пытается узнать, как обойти все системы защиты, чтобы потом ограбить дом, когда семья улетит. Вечер перед поездкой заканчивается ссорой между Кевином и его старшим братом Баззом, который съедает любимую пиццу Кевина. Несмотря на доказательства Кевина, его отправляют спать на третий этаж. По пути Кевин в порыве гнева загадывает желание никогда больше не видеть семью. Ночью происходит короткое замыкание проводов из-за упавшей на них ветки, все будильники отключаются и утром вся семья чуть не опаздывает на самолёт. Им удаётся сесть на него буквально за несколько минут до взлёта.

Оставшийся один дома Кевин вначале не понимает, куда все делись, но потом вспоминает своё вчерашнее желание и устраивает себе весёлые каникулы, поглощая мороженое, копаясь в вещах Базза, устраивая небольшой тир и просматривая запрещённый ему фильм про гангстеров. Тем временем мистер и миссис Маккалистер вспоминают, что Кевин остался дома, и мать Кевина, Кейт, чуть не сходит с ума от этого. Обратного пути нет, и семья прилетает в Париж. Кейт решает остаться в аэропорту, чтобы вернуться домой, остальные члены семьи уходят размещаться в квартиру дяди Кевина Фрэнка.

Тем временем бандит Гарри и его напарник Марв Мерчантс пытаются пробраться в дом, но Кевин зажигает в подвале свет и спугивает их. На следующее утро он отправляется в магазин, чтобы купить зубную щётку, но увидев в магазине пожилого дворника Марлея, которого по рассказам Базза считал убийцей, убегает, не заплатив за щётку. Гарри и Марв, ограбив дом соседей Маккалистеров Мёрфи, отъезжают от него на своём фургоне и по пути чуть не сбивают Кевина. После небольшого предупреждения Гарри широко улыбается мальчику, и тот внезапно узнаёт его, так как до этого он также улыбнулся ему в обличии полицейского. Грабители устраивают за ним слежку, но Кевин сбивает их со следа, прячась около церкви. Вечером они подъезжают к дому, но увидев свет в окнах и движущиеся фигуры людей (это была уловка Кевина), уезжают.

Маккалистеры продолжают жить в квартире дяди Фрэнка, тоскуя по дому. Сестра Кевина, Меган, очень переживает и за маму, и за оставшегося дома брата. Базз успокаивает её, что Кевину одиночество пойдёт только на пользу.

Кейт никак не может долететь до Чикаго прямым рейсом, так как все билеты проданы, и ей приходится договариваться с пожилой парой, чтобы улететь вместо них в Скрантон, где сочувствующий её горю руководитель ансамбля, Гас Полински, соглашается подвезти её до дома на фургоне вместе со всей музыкальной группой, популярной в 1970-е годы. Кейт немедленно соглашается.

Кевин начинает грустить от одиночества. Он раскаивается за свою грубость и начинает готовиться к Рождеству, солидно закупаясь в местном супермаркете и спиливая ёлку. Он не подозревает, что Гарри и Марв следят за ним. Они поняли, что Кевин просто одурачил их, и начинают готовиться к ограблению, запланированному на 9 часов вечера. Кевин подслушивает их разговор. Вечером он встречает на улице местного Санта-Клауса, загадывает желание, чтобы вся его семья вернулась домой и, получив от него пару конфеток, идёт в церковь, куда также пришёл и дворник Марлей. Последний рассказывает ему о себе, и Кевин понимает, что рассказы Базза — это просто глупая выдумка. Мальчик понимает, что грабители вот-вот приедут, и расставляет по всему дому многочисленные хитроумные ловушки, превращая его в неприступную крепость.

Ровно в 9 часов вечера Марв и Гарри подъезжают к дому и пытаются уговорить Кевина открыть дверь, на что он в ответ открывает по ним «огонь» из пневматического ружья. Поняв, что для того, чтобы поймать Кевина, им нужно разделиться, Гарри пытается проникнуть в дом через парадную дверь, а Марв — через подвал. В итоге, зайдя в дом и пострадав от устроенных хитрым Кевином ловушек, они ловят мальчика, но тот умудряется удрать, испугав при этом Марва тарантулом Базза и предварительно вызвав полицию. В итоге Мокрые Бандиты ловят Кевина в доме Мёрфи и падают без сознания, оглушённые лопатой Марлея. Их забирает вызванная Кевином полиция.

Кевин делает последние приготовления к Рождеству и ложится спать. Проснувшись рождественским утром, он вспоминает о своём желании и ищет родителей по всему дому. Не обнаружив их, он, расстроенный, возвращается в спальню. Спустя несколько минут Кейт входит в дом, и Кевин бежит вниз и встречается с ней. Ещё через несколько минут дверь вновь распахивается и в дом входят все остальные члены семейства Маккалистеров, которые задержались в Париже. Кевин радостно встречает всех, затем видит в окно Марлея, помирившегося со своей семьёй, и убегает на крики Базза про разгром его комнаты.

История создания

Концепция данного фильма зародилась у Джона Хьюза во время съёмок его предыдущего фильма «Дядюшка Бак», где также играл Маколей Калкин. Идея пришла к Хьюзу, когда снимали сцену, где герой Калкина разговаривал через щель почтового ящика с незнакомой ему няней.

Делая раскадровку фильма, Крис Коламбус задумал три сцены, где Кевину снится сон о том, что его дом оживает. В обеих фигурировала «Злая Печь» в подвале, которая преследовала Кевина до лестницы, а также несколько игрушечных щипцов для колки орехов. Однако, данные идеи оказались чересчур дорогими в плане производства и от них пришлось отказаться. В итоге оставили только печь, которая просто пугала Кевина своим видом.

Персонаж Джо Пеши — Гарри Лайм был назван в честь персонажа Орсона Уэллса из фильма «Третий человек» (1949). Полные имена Гарри и Марва остались лишь в сценарии, в фильме их фамилии не произносятся ни разу. То, что фамилия Гарри Лайм, а Марвина — Мерчантс, стало известно благодаря выпущенной Тоддом Стрейссером за месяц до премьеры новеллизации фильма.

Старик Марли (Робертс Блоссом) отсутствовал в оригинальном сценарии.

Кастинг

Несмотря на то, что Джон Хьюз изначально писал сценарий с расчётом на Калкина, Крис Коламбус всё равно провёл кастинг на главную роль, потому что хотел убедиться, что лучшего, чем Маколей, ему не найти.

Роберт Де Ниро отклонил предложение сыграть роль Гарри.

Отец Маколея — Кит Калкин — был расчётливым дельцом и всячески пытался «выбить» из продюсеров «лишний доллар». Он придумал историю, что Маколей очень привязан к своему младшему брату Кирану (что было неправдой). В конце концов, продюсеры были вынуждены взять его на роль Фулера. Уже во время съёмок отец потребовал для него гонорар в размере $3,000 в день, что было в несколько раз больше суммы, оговоренной в договоре.

Джеффри Вайсман, сыгравший роль не в меру любопытного соседа Мича Мёрфи, тоже проходил кастинг на роль Кевина. Впоследствии он также проходил кастинг на главную роль в фильме «Богатенький Ричи», и роль опять же отошла Калкину.

На роль Питера Мак-Каллистера (Джон Херд) пробовались такие маститые актёры, как Мартин Шин, Майкл Дуглас, Дэн Эйкройд, Том Скерритт, Билл Мюррей, Джеймс Белуши, Чеви Чейз, Том Хэнкс, Шон Пенн, Рик Моранис и даже такие знаменитости, как Харрисон Форд, Джон Траволта, Мел Гибсон, Сильвестр Сталлоне и Джек Николсон.

На роль Кейт Мак-Каллистер (Кэтрин О’Хара) список претенденток тоже был впечатляющим: Сигурни Уивер, Дайан Китон, Холли Хантер, Джоди Фостер, Гленн Клоуз, Джейми Ли Кёртис, Стокард Чэннинг, Кэрри Фишер, Келли МакГиллис, Линда Хэмилтон, Хелен Хант, Лора Дёрн, Анжелика Хьюстон, Шэрон Стоун, Мишель Пфайффер, Джессика Лэнг, Дэрил Ханна, Дебра Уингер и Энни Поттс.

В ролях

• Маколей Калкин — Кевин Маккаллистер, восьмилетний мальчик, главный персонаж фильма
• Джо Пеши — Гарри Лайм, бандит, маскирующийся под полицейского
• Дэниэл Стерн — Марвин Мерчантс, напарник Гарри
• Робертс Блоссом — дворник Марлей, пожилой человек, окружённый множеством нехороших слухов
• Джон Херд — Питер Маккаллистер, отец Кевина
• Кэтрин О’Хара — Кейт Маккаллистер, мать Кевина
• Девин Рэтрей — Базз Маккаллистер, старший брат Кевина, постоянно издевающийся над ним
• Герри Бамман — Френк Маккаллистер, брат Питера и дядя Кевина, над которым он неоднократно глупо шутит
• Киран Калкин — Фуллер Маккаллистер, двоюродный брат Кевина, с которым Кевин отказывается спать в одной кровати, так как Фулер без конца мочится в постели
• Джон Кэнди — Гас Полински, руководитель самодеятельного ансамбля, убеждающий Кейт в том, что все родители когда-нибудь совершают ошибки
• Анджела Геталс — Линни Маккаллистер
• Ларри Ханкин — Ларри Бальзак
• Билл Эрвин — первый посетитель аэропорта
• Кристин Минтер — Хэзер Маккаллистер
• Рэй Толер — Роб Маккаллистер
• Билли Бёрд — второй посетитель аэропорта
• Джерри Беккер — жандарм
• Хоуп Дэвис — французская кассирша билетной кассы
• Кен Хадсон Кемпбелл — Санта Клаус
• Марк Белцман — Стош
• Джим Ортлиб — Хёрб

Съёмки

Съёмочный процесс длился с 14 февраля по 16 мая 1990 года.

Гонорар Маколея Калкина составил 100 тыс. долл.

Джон Кэнди из-за плотного графика снимался в фильме только один день. Все эпизоды с ним были сняты в течение 23 часов непрерывных съёмок.

Места съёмок

Кроме нескольких панорамных видов Парижа фильм целиком снимался в штате Иллинойс.

«Дом Мак-Каллистеров» находится по адресу Lincoln Avenue 671 в деревне Уиннетка в Чикаго. В фильме были засняты кухня, парадный холл с главной лестницей, подвал и несколько комнат на первом этаже (все остальные эпизоды снимались в декорациях). Столовая и все остальные комнаты являются декорациями. Частная собственность, с августа 2008 года стоит около 2,3 миллионов долл. Был построен в 1920-х, имеет 5 спален, 3,5 ванной, обустроенный чердак, камин, отдельный двойной гараж и оранжерею. Был куплен одной семьёй 15 декабря 1988 года, которая оставалась жить в нём и на период съёмок (и она же владеет им и сегодня). Внесено в туристический список достопримечательностей штата Иллинойс. «Домик на дереве» был снят на заднем дворе этого дома, но он был построен специально для съёмок. На той же Lincoln Avenue, но под номером 656, находится «дом Митча Мёрфи». В фильме, правда, Линкольн Авеню было переименовано в Бульвар Линкольна. 6 мая 2011 года дом 671 был выставлен на продажу за 2,4 миллиона долларов.

Церковь, в которой Кевин встречается со стариком Марли, была снята в двойном варианте: снаружи — это церковь Grace Episcopal на 924 Lake Street в Оак Парк в Иллинойсе, а внутри — школа Хивен Мидел на 2417 Prairie Avenue в Иванстоне.

Спецэффекты

Спецэффект со «Злой Печью» был создан с помощью обычных фонариков и рыболовной лески.

Интересные факты

Музыка, под которую проходят сборы всей семьи очень похожа на «Трепак» П. И. Чайковского из балета «Щелкунчик»

Новеллизация

Полные имена Гарри и Марва остались лишь в сценарии, в фильме их фамилии не произносятся ни разу. То, что фамилия Гарри Лайм, а Марвина — Мерчантс, стало известно благодаря выпущенной Тоддом Стрейссером за месяц до премьеры новеллизации фильма, которая представляла собой книжную адаптацию для детей (помимо всего прочего в ней так же описывались все вырезанные из фильма сцены). Из книги так же выяснялось, что Питер — удачливый бизнесмен, а Кейт работает дизайнером-модельером одежды (и именно поэтому в подвале их дома можно увидеть манекенов, которых Кевин потом использует для фальсификации «вечеринки»). Заодно в книге говорилось, что паука Базза зовут Аксель.

Примечания

Ссылки

• «Один дома»  (англ.) на сайте Internet Movie Database
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Один дома
Один дома (1990) • Один дома 2: Потерянный в Нью-Йорке (1992) • Один дома 3 (1997) • Один дома 4 (2002) • Один дома 5: The Holiday Heist (2012)
Персонажи	Кевин МакКалистер
Люди	Маколей Калкин • Джо Пеши • Дэниел Стерн • Кэтрин О’Хара • Крис Коламбус • Джон Хьюз • Алекс Дэвид Линц • Mike Weinberg
Саундтреки	Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Home Alone 3
Видеоигры	Home Alone (1991) • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) • Home Alone (2006)
Категория

Фильмы Криса Коламбуса

Приключения приходящей няни (1987) • Отель разбитых сердец (1988) • Один дома (1990) • Поймёт лишь одинокий (1991) • Один дома 2: Потерянный в Нью-Йорке (1992) • Миссис Даутфайр (1993) • Девять месяцев (1995) • Мачеха (1998) • Двухсотлетний человек (1999) • Гарри Поттер и философский камень (2001) • Гарри Поттер и Тайная комната (2002) • Богема (2005) • Ночь с Бет Купер (2009) • Перси Джексон и похититель молний (2010)

Фильмы Джона Хьюза
Режиссёр	16 свечей (1984) • Клуб «Завтрак» (1985) • Ох, уж эта наука (1985) • Феррис Бьюллер берёт выходной (1986) • Самолётом, поездом и автомобилем (1987) • У неё будет ребёнок (1988) • Дядюшка Бак (1989) • Кудряшка Сью (1991)
Сценарист	Каникулы (1983) • Отпуск в Европе (1985) • Девушка в розовом (1986) • Нечто замечательное (1987) • Рождественские каникулы (1989) • Один дома (1990) • Бетховен (1992) • Один дома 2: Потерянный в Нью-Йорке (1992) • Деннис-мучитель (1993) • Младенец на прогулке (1994) • Бетховен 2 (1992) • 101 далматинец (1996) • Флаббер (1997) • Один дома 3 (1997) • Пришельцы в Америке (2001) • Госпожа горничная (2002) • Школа выживания (2008)
Другое	Феррис Бьюллер (сериал; 1990-1991) • Бетховен (мультсериал) • Чудеса науки (1994-1997)

«A family comedy without the family.»

―Tagline

Home Alone is a 1990 American comedy blockbuster film directed by Chris Columbus written and produced by John Hughes and distributed by 20th Century Studios.

Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), an eight-year-old boy whose wish of his family to disappear comes true when they mistakenly left him at home when they go on a vacation to Paris for Christmas.

While initially relishing time by himself, he is later greeted by two thieves, Harry and Marv, who are played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, respectively. Kevin eventually manages to outwit them with a series of booby traps.

It was followed by five sequels: two theatrical films, two made-for-television films, and a Disney Plus original film.

The first sequel, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, is the only film in the series to feature more than one cast member from the original film. Home Alone 4 features characters from the first two films, but played by different actors. Home Sweet Home Alone features only Devin Ratray reprising the role of Buzz McCallister.

Plot

The McCallister House

The McCallister family prepares to spend Christmas with Peter and Frank’s brother, Rob, in Paris, France. They gather at Peter and his wife Kate’s home in Chicago the night before their flight. 8-year-old Kevin, Peter and Kate’s youngest son, finds himself the subject of ridicule by his cousins and siblings.

As the family rushes around the McCallister home, packing their things, a questionable police officer stands in the foyer, attempting to find an adult to speak with. Meanwhile, Kevin complains to his parents about his uncle Frank and he is instructed to pack his suitcase. However, his siblings refuse to help him, which causes Kevin to complain that he is fed up of living in a house full of people and rants that he wants to live alone when he grows up and gets married.

Kevin goes to his older brother, Buzz, to ask him if he can sleep in his room for the night because he knows that his little cousin Fuller will wet the bed that they will be sharing. Disappointed for even asking, Buzz replies “I wouldn’t let you sleep in my room, if you were growing on my ass!” Later Buzz tells him and their cousin Rod McCallister that their next-door neighbor, Old Man Marley is the «South Bend Shovel Slayer,» who is rumored to have murdered his family and half of the people on the block in 1958. Rod asks why the police didn’t arrest him, and Buzz tells them that the police have never found the bodies and that he salts the neighborhood sidewalks with the remains of his victims, adding that the salt turns the bodies into mummies; this frightens Kevin.

A Little Nero’s Pizza man arrives at the home and waits alongside the questionable police officer. Frank comes and takes the pizza, but leaves the responsibility of paying for it to his brother and does not stay around to speak with the questionable officer. Peter briefly speaks with the officer, who inquires about the security of their home and he is taken by Buzz to go eat pizza and Kevin rushes to the kitchen to get his favorite pizza.

During dinner, Buzz is seen shoving an entire plain cheese pizza (Kevin’s favorite) in his mouth, which he and Kevin were supposed to share. Kevin looks for his favorite pizza and when he does not see any, he asks if anyone ordered some. Buzz responds that it was all eaten. This annoys Kevin and he sees Fuller smirking at him when he drinks a can of Pepsi. Knowing Fuller was deliberately doing this to pee on him while sleeping, Kevin is angered further. Buzz then begins to feign throwing up, asking for a plate from Kevin. Angry that Buzz ate his plain cheese pizza, Kevin snaps and pushes Buzz back, which causes Buzz to accidentally spill milk on the airline tickets and passports, Peter to knock over a full open bottle of Pepsi onto the pizza and Frank’s pants, and Fuller’s head to get pinned between a chair and the wall. An infuriated Kate breaks up the fight between Buzz and Kevin and demands Kevin to explain his behavior. He replies that it is Buzz’s fault for eating the whole plain cheese pizza on purpose, then begins ranting on how he hates sausage, olives, onions, and similar toppings. Kevin is interrupted by Uncle Frank who shouts, «Look what you did, you little jerk!» This causes Kevin to notice his family glaring at him for the mess. Kate sternly drags Kevin out of the kitchen (after Jeff calls him «such a disease»), pays the pizza boy, and briefly speaks with the questionable officer of their vacation before taking Kevin upstairs; before leaving, the officer tells her that he has already spoken to her husband and that the home is «in good hands».

Kate angrily informs Kevin that there are 15 people in the house, and he is the only one who has to make trouble, with Kevin replying that he is the only one who’s getting dumped on. Kate tells him that he’s the only one who’s acting up as she leads Kevin to the third-floor bedroom, which in reality is the attic playroom of the house. Kevin apologizes and begs his mother not to send him up there, acknowledging that Fuller will wet his bed; while Kate agrees to move Fuller somewhere else to sleep, she rejects his apology and sends him upstairs regardless. Kevin angrily tells Kate that everybody in the family hates him, so Kate sarcastically suggests asking Santa Claus for a new one. When Kevin spurns that he doesn’t want a family, a frustrated Kate wishes to not see him again for the rest of the night, but Kevin angrily wishes to not see her or anybody else again for the rest of his life. Hurt and stunned, Kate retorts that he’d feel sad and lonely without a family, but Kevin denies it. Kate firmly warns Kevin that it might happen if he says it again, only for him to yell that he never wants to see them again…wishing that they would all disappear while lying on the bed.

Family departure and Kevin left alone

During the night, high winds pick up, causing a tree branch to fall over and land on an electricity wire, resulting in a power failure. The next morning, when Kate taps the alarm clock, which is flashing 12:00, she picks up her watch to check the time, discovering that they’ve slept in. The family desperately rushes to pack their stuff to catch the vans that will take them to the airport. Mitch Murphy, a neighbor across the street, is mistakenly counted in a head count, and the family hastily depart to the airport.

Kevin wakes up to find the house empty as the family’s flight takes off. Upon realizing he is home alone, he is overjoyed to find that his wish came true and begins doing whatever he wants, such as jumping on his parents’ bed and getting into Buzz’s belongings, including his BB gun. He then eats junk food as he watches Angels with Filthy Souls, a film that he was prohibited from watching the night before by Uncle Frank; however, the film’s shooting scene ultimately startles him, that he paused the movie and calls for his mother.

Kevin is missing, trouble in Paris

During the flight, a sleeping Kate wakes up, worried that the family has forgotten something. She asks Peter if they turned off the coffee machine, locked the doors, and closed the garage. Peter admits that he did forgot to close the garage. Kate, however, thinks it’s something else they forgot, then after Peter asks what they possibly could have forgotten. Kate finally realizes what they have left behind, screaming «Kevin!» out loud. Meanwhile, Kevin sleds down the stairs in his home and out the front door. After her realization, Kate is comforted by the family, who offer nothing that soothes her guilty conscience. Kate realizes what kind of terrible mother she is.

Once the family is in Paris, Kate calls the police in Chicago, has Peter book a return flight, and has Frank’s wife and her sister-in-law, Leslie call everyone in Kate’s address book. Kate reaches the Village Police Department on the phone and requests them to send someone to check on Kevin and tell him that the family will be returning home. However, the department misunderstands her inquiry at first and finally sends an officer, who knocks on the door, but Kevin is too afraid to answer the door. The officer judges that there is nobody home and the house is secure.

Kate and Peter attempt to book a return flight back to Chicago, but find that everything is booked. She decides to stay at the airport to be on standby in case a seat opens up as the rest of the family goes to Rob’s house. As the McCallisters watch a French dub of It’s a Wonderful Life, Peter tries calling someone on the phone to assist in reaching Kevin while Frank brings out shrimp, ignoring his sister-in-law and Rob’s wife Georgette’s calls that the shrimp was going to be eaten later. Kevin’s sister, Megan, expresses her worry about Kevin to Buzz, but he insists that their brother will be completely fine.

After much haggling, Kate convinces couple Ed and Irene to give her their seats on their flight to Dallas.

The Wet Bandits introduced and Kevin’s first personal encounter with Marley

The «Wet Bandits» Marv and Harry — the latter happening to be the supposed police officer — observe the neighborhood, planning robberies around the security information Harry has gathered about each home. As Kevin takes a nap whilst How the Grinch Stole Christmas plays on the television, Harry and Marv attempt to break in, but Kevin hears them and turns on a light, causing them to flee as he hides under his parents bed.

Deciding that he is no longer afraid, Kevin comes out of hiding and goes outside, declaring that he is not afraid anymore. However, he encounters Old Man Marley and screams in fear before running back inside.

First encounter with the Wet Bandits

After showering, Kevin uses his father’s grooming products, including his aftershave, causing Kevin to scream from the burning sensation in pain. He then goes to Buzz’s room and attempts to climb the shelf to reach his «life savings», but causes all of the shelving to fall on top of him. While on his walk, Kevin notices the Wet Bandits’ van in the Murphy driveway and notes that he thought the Murphy family had gone to Florida. As the burglars raid the Murphy home, they hear a message on their phone from Peter indicating that the McCallisters are not home.

Kevin goes to a drugstore to buy a toothbrush and asks if it is approved by the American Dental Association. As the store’s staff attempts to confirm, Old Man Marley enters, causing a frightened Kevin to flee the store and unintentionally shoplift the toothbrush. A police officer chases Kevin, but loses sight of him at an ice-skating rink after being tripped over by one of the skaters with a hockey club. Kevin walks home, dismayed that he has become a criminal.

After Marv leaves the water running in the Murphy home — much to Harry’s disapproval — they argue and almost run over Kevin in their van. Kevin finally recognizes Harry and starts to run as the suspicious burglars follow him. He reaches a church and loses the bandits by posing as part of the church’s Nativity scene display. He then runs home, declaring that he will be ready when the burglars return.

Regretting his wish

Later that night, the burglars arrive outside the McCallister home, but Kevin has constructed an elaborate silhouette display, making Marv and Harry think that there are people there.

Kevin then orders a cheese pizza for himself and directs the pizza boy to the back door as he plays and pauses parts of Angels with Filthy Souls, convincing that one of the characters in the film is speaking with him and, eventually, shooting at him, making the pizza boy flee the property. As he settles for the night, Kevin watches Johnny Carson on television and begins to regret his wish.

Christmas Eve

In the morning, as Kevin readies himself for the day, he lip syncs to the Drifters‘ version of «White Christmas» and once again screams from his father’s aftershave as Buzz’s tarantula roams free after escaping as a result of Kevin accidentally breaking the shelving. Kevin goes to the grocery store, where he encounters an inquisitive cashier. As he walks home, the grocery bags break. He then returns home and does laundry.

Harry sends Marv to check the house. Kevin, noticing Marv’s presence, turns on Angels with Filthy Souls and enhances the film’s sound of gunfire with firecrackers in a pot. This scares Marv away from the home; Marv then reports the events of Angels with Filthy Souls to Harry, thinking that they actually happened inside the home. The duo nap until they observe Kevin cutting down a tree and realize that he has been deceiving them. As Kevin decorates the tree, he sees Harry’s reflection in an ornament and feigns calling for his father. He opens a window and overhears Marv and Harry planning their break-in to the McCallister home at 9:00, making Kevin want his family back.

Kate eventually reaches Scranton, but all flights to Chicago are unavailable due to a surge of travelers. Desperate to return home, she is overheard by Gus Polinski, the «Polka King of the Midwest» and his polka band, the Kenosha Kickers, who are driving to Milwaukee after their flight was canceled. He offers to allow her to ride with them in a van, dropping her off in Chicago along the way. Kate accepts the offer and rides with the polka band. As the band rehearses «Deck the Halls» in the van, Gus offers to let her play his clarinet, which she declines.

Friendship with Marley and setting the traps

After going to a Santa Claus impersonator and requesting he ask the real Santa to bring his family back instead of presents, Kevin goes to the church, where he sees a local children’s choir perform and encounters Old Man Marley, coming to discover that he is actually a very friendly and kind man and that none of the rumors about him are true. Kevin learns the real reason the rumors were spread; Marley has been estranged from his son for quite some time, thus separating him from his granddaughter, who is singing with the choir. Kevin urges Marley to make amends with his son for Christmas and Marley agrees.

As the children’s choir sings an unaccompanied version of «Carol Of The Bells», the bell in the church tower strikes 8:00. His own spirits lifted by encouraging Marley, Kevin returns home to prepare a series of booby traps about the house before 9:00 p.m. First, he rolls up the doormat by the staircase, placing Micro Machine cars, trucks, and airplanes on the floor. He continues on by dousing the front steps as well the outside basement stairs outside with water, which immediately freezes. After hooking a glowing hot BBQ starter onto the doorknob of the front door, Kevin coats the inside basement stairs with tar, leaving the last few steps untouched, placing a sandpaper with a long nail into an upward shingle on one of them. Next, he creates an escape route by connecting a rope from the attic window to his tree house. In the kitchen, he squirts caulking glue onto a sheet of plastic wrap, then piles a cart high with feathers and an electric fan. Then, he places glass Christmas ornaments down on the floor next to a window. Finally, he grabs two paint cans with ropes tied to them after preparing an iron and blowtorch.

Springing the traps

Harry and Marv arrive and decide to go through the back door. As Kevin blesses his macaroni and cheese dinner, the clock strikes nine, and he runs to the kitchen, pumps the BB gun and says, «This is it. Don’t get scared now» before hiding by the door. Harry and Marv torment Kevin at the back door and Kevin shoots Harry in the crotch with Buzz’s BB gun through the doggy door. Marv sticks his head through the doggy door and is shot in the forehead.

Harry goes around to the front door, but slips on the icy stairs. Marv does the same at the basement steps, sliding down on them to the door and struggling to stand up in the frozen ground. Harry again attempts going up the front steps, but falls again. Marv finally manages to stand and enters the basement. When he attempts to turn on a light bulb, he instead pulls an iron down the laundry chute and is hit in the head.

Harry once again attempts to climb up the stairs and is successful this time. He grabs the doorknob, which burns his hand, which he cools in a pile of snow. Marv struggles up the tar-covered basement steps—losing his shoes and socks in the process—and falls down them after stepping on the nail.

Harry then attempts entering through the back door, but his head is burned by a blowtorch as he enters. He then cools his head in the snow. Meanwhile, Marv leaves the basement and slips again. Harry rushes through the back door, knocking down the blowtorch, and angrily asks, «Where are you, you little creep?!» Marv rushes to a window.

Kevin torments Harry, who then walks into the glue-covered plastic wrap and has the feathers blown onto him by the fan. The barefooted Marv enters through the window, stepping on the glass ornaments and angrily yells, «I’m gonna kill that kid!» The burglars join back up again and slip on the Micro Machines. They then try chasing Kevin up the stairs, but are hit by the paint cans, one of which knocks out Harry’s gold tooth. Kevin calls the police, reporting a burglary in the Murphy home. The burglars chase him, while Harry trips over a wire, knocking him unconscious, and Marv manages to grab Kevin’s leg on the attic steps. Kevin grabs Buzz’s tarantula Axl and puts it on Marv’s face, allowing him to escape. Marv screams and throws the tarantula on an unconscious Harry’s belly as Kevin ziplines to a nearby treehouse. Marv, trying to hit the tarantula, then accidentally hits Harry in the chest with his crow bar.

After Harry hits Marv three times with the crowbar, the bandits pursue Kevin again as he reaches the treehouse. They try climbing over to the treehouse, but this is foiled by Kevin cutting the rope with a pair of hedge clippers, causing them to be swung into the side of the house.

The bandits defeated

Kevin then flees to the neighboring Murphy home’s basement. However, the Wet Bandits ambush Kevin at the top of the basement steps. They discuss doing the same things to Kevin that he did to them, Harry threatening to first bite Kevin’s fingers off; luckily for Kevin, Marley intervenes and hits Marv and Harry with his snow shovel, knocking them unconscious, thus saving Kevin, and returning him home.

Shortly after Kevin is returned home safely, Harry and Marv are arrested. Additionally, the police have now become aware of every house the Wet Bandits have targeted due to Marv’s habit of leaving the household’s water running as a «calling card». Marv tells the police about their crimes which causes Harry to kick him twice as they get in the police car. As the police car drives away, Kevin sarcastically waves at Harry, who hopes that he and Marv will return one day for revenge.

After Kevin cleans the remains of the traps, he then places some cookies and milk on a table for Santa (as well as some carrots for the reindeer), having set up Christmas all by himself. Kate speaks with Gus, guilty of leaving Kevin behind and thinking that she is a bad parent. Gus insists that she is not a bad parent compared to any of those in his band, and he recounts a story of leaving one of his own children at a funeral parlor.

Christmas Day reconciliation

Kevin wakes up the next morning and calls for his mother, but is disappointed to find that he is still alone. Kate then arrives and the two reconcile before Peter and Kevin’s siblings arrive, having caught the flight that Kate did not want to wait for (while Kevin’s uncle, aunt and cousins are still in Paris). Buzz becomes glad that Kevin didn’t burn the house down. When Kate asks Peter to find an open store to buy some milk, Kevin reveals to them that he had gotten groceries for Christmas (milk, eggs, and fabric softener), but more or less «just hung around» while his family was away. Kevin does not disclose his encounter with Harry and Marv, though Peter finds Harry’s gold tooth on the floor and wonders what it is.

Kevin goes over to the window and smiles upon discovering that Marley took his advice, and watches as he and his son reunite and reconcile. While hugging his granddaughter and daughter-in-law, Marley looks up, sees Kevin and, smiling, waves to him as a sign of thanking him, and Kevin waves back. Buzz interrupts Kevin’s musings by calling out, «Kevin! What did you do to my room!?» causing Kevin to run off.

Cast

• Macaulay Culkin as Kevin
• Joe Pesci as Harry
• Daniel Stern as Marv
• John Heard as Peter
• Roberts Blossom as Old Man Marley
• Catherine O’Hara as Kate
• Angela Goethals as Linnie
• Devin Ratray as Buzz
• Gerry Bamman as Uncle Frank
• Hillary Wolf as Megan
• John Candy as Gus Polinski
• Larry Hankin as Officer Balzak
• Michael C. Maronna as Jeff
• Kristin Minter as Heather
• Daiana Campeanu as Sondra
• Jedidiah Cohen as Rod
• Kieran Culkin as Fuller
• Senta Moses as Tracy
• Anna Slotky as Brooke
• Terrie Snell as Aunt Leslie
• Jeffrey Wiseman as Mitch Murphy
• Virginia Smith as Georgette
• Matt Doherty as Steffan
• Ralph Foody as Gangster Johnny
• Michael Guido as Gangster Snakes
• Ray Toler as Uncle Rob
• Billie Bird as Woman in Airport
• Bill Erwin as Man in Airport
• Gerry Becker as Officer #1
• Victor Cole as Officer #2
• Porscha Radcliffe and Brittany Radcliffe as The Cousins
• Clarke Devereux as Officer Devereux
• Dan Charles Zulcoski as Pizza Boy
• Lynn Mansbach as French Woman
• Peter Siragusa as Lineman
• Alan Wilder as Scranton Ticket Agent
• Hope Davis as French Ticket Agent
• Dianne B. Shaw as Airline Counter Person
• Tracy Connor as Check Out Girl
• Jim Ryan as Stock Boy
• Ken Hudson Campbell as Santa Claus impersonator
• Sandra Macat as Santa’s Elf
• Mark Beltzman as Stosh
• Ann Whitney as Drugstore Clerk
• Richard J. Firfer as Store Manager
• Jim Ortlieb as Herb the Drugstore Clerk
• Kate Johnson as Police Operator
• Michael Hansen and Peter Pantaleo as Airport Drivers
• Jean-Claude Sciore as French Gate Agent
• Monica Devereux as Flight Attendant

Deleted scenes

• Paula Newsome as Shopper

Edited for Television

Whenever it has aired on Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, NBC, AMC, FOX, or ABC Family/Freeform, some scenes were edited like:

• When Kevin asks Buzz if he could sleep in his room to avoid sleeping with Fuller (who wets the bed when given a lot to drink), Buzz usually says «I wouldn’t let you sleep in my room…if you were growing on my ass!«, but in some instances, he will say «I wouldn’t let you sleep in my room…if you were growing on my butt!«.
• The line “Fuller! Go easy on the Pepsi!” was removed due to national television staff finding it offensive to diabetic people.
• Kevin would then say, «Down here, you morons!» and «Down here, you idiots!» instead of «Down here, you big horse’s ass!»
• In the scene where Kevin watches Angels With Filthy Souls, it would delete «ya filthy animal«. He would then say, «Keep the change«. It would then cut to Kevin who was yelling «Mom!» However, in later airings on Freeform, «ya filthy animal» was reinstated.
• In the scene where the cop is sent to check on Kevin, the part where says “There’s no one home, the house looks secure, tell her to count her kids again” is cut. Instead, when he gets on his walkie talkie, it’s cuts to a commercial break.
• At the end, Buzz said, «Kevin, what in the world did you do to my room!?» instead of «Kevin, what did you do to my room!?«
• When Marv drops his shoe through the doggy door, he does not say, «Shit!».
• The entire movie is in a lower pitch when aired on AMC or its affiliated channels.
• However, in later airings, Freeform restored all of the original scenes unedited.

Trivia

• The title of the Buzz’s Playboy Magazine, Broadcast Nudes: TV Newscaster Bares All, as well as its cover is a play on James L. Brooks’ 1987 movie Broadcast News, which was also distributed by Home Alone distributor 20th Century Fox.
• Even though Frank is acting mean when he says to Peter, «you be positive, I’ll be realistic», since their plane leaves in 45 minutes, he is actually right; it takes at least 30 minutes to get from Winnetka to O’Hare and they had fifteen people trying to make an international flight.
• Harry and Marv’s van is a grayish bluish van made by Dodge.
• When Kevin zip lined across his yard, it was clearly a stunt double.
• When Marv was walking through the snow, Daniel Stern was wearing rubber feet.
• Also, when Marv stepped on the ornaments, the ornaments were made out of glass candy.
• There is a cut scene were Rob and Georgette are welcoming the family with a poster, only for the clan to rush through the sign, ripping it.
• When it shows Kevin on a sleigh about to ride out the front door, it is obvious that the angle Kevin is at should make him crash into the wall.
• When Kevin speeds out the front door on the sleigh, there is no way he can get a lot of elevation since the stairs leading up to the front door are very small.
• Catherine O’Hara revealed in 2014 that Macaulay Culkin still calls her «Mom.»
• The picture Kevin finds of Buzz’s girlfriend was a picture of a boy made up to look like a girl because director Chris Columbus thought it would be too cruel to tease a girl in that manner. The boy that was used in the photo was the art director’s son.
• The movie that Kevin watches on video tape is not a real film, but footage specially created. It was called Angels with Filthy Souls Along with other similar era references in the movie, this is a play upon the movie Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) starring James Cagney. Kevin uses it on the pizza boy and later Marv. Both times, Kevin was successful in scaring them away.
• John Candy improvised all of his lines.
• Marv’s lines «Why the hell are you dressed like a chicken?» and «Maybe he committed suicide.» were improvised by Daniel Stern.
• During rehearsal for the scene where Harry attempts to bite off Kevin’s finger, Joe Pesci actually bit Macaulay Culkin, leaving a small scar.
• Joe Pesci kept forgetting that he was filming a family movie during his character’s on-screen outbursts, so director Chris Columbus advised him to say «fridge» instead of the f-word.
• When Marv drops his shoe through the back door of Kevin’s house while Kevin’s washing dishes, he says a swear word «shit.» In the original script, Buzz McCallister, Harry, and Marv were supposed to swear a lot more frequently. For example, when Rod asks Buzz who will feed his tarantula, he says in the script: «He just ate a shitload of mice guts.» When Kevin enters the room, he originally called him «dick rash» instead of «phlegm wad.» In an alternate version of the deleted scene «Sleepless in Paris,» Buzz claims that Kevin acted like an asshole instead of a jerk. It is not known if any of these instances were filmed and then reshot.
• The microwave macaroni and cheese that Kevin gets from the grocery store asking the cashier if it’s any good and is almost about to eat which he doesn’t is Kraft Dinner.
• All of John Candy’s scenes were filmed in 23 hours.
• Director Chris Columbus auditioned over 200 kids to play the role of Kevin, because he didn’t want to use the first kid in front of him, which was Macaulay Culkin who was requested by Writer John Hughes. However, he saw that no other kid has as much talent as Macaulay, so Columbus gave Culkin the role.
• The nail Daniel Stern stepped on was actually made of rubber because he could actually crush it with his foot and feel no pain.
• At the beginning of the film, the 1964 Rankin/Bass special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is playing on the TV.
• During the police department scene, a piece of the donut fell on the phone receiver, because of that the producers had to film every take with the donut still on the receiver until it fell off because of continuity reasons.
• This is the only Home Alone movie to use the short version of the 1981 20th Century Fox logo.
• When Kevin crosses himself before his macaroni and cheese dinner, he goes from right shoulder to left shoulder. Orthodox go from right to left. Catholics left right.
• John Heard and Catherine O’Hara both played supporting characters in the 1985 film After Hours, sharing a brief scene together.

Goofs

• When Aunt Leslie says «Fuller! Go easy on the Pepsi«, it is quite clearly a close-mic voiceover recorded off set (most likely in post-production), as the rest of the dialogue has a completely different natural reverb to this line.
• When Kevin arrives home after speaking to Old Man Marley at the church, he runs right in the house without unlocking the front door — he left his house unlocked even though he knew that there were burglars in the area.
• In the battle plan, on one side of the house, there are Christmas ornaments, while the other side has glue on plastic wrap, a fan, and feathers. Harry and Marv meet each other on one side, but when Kevin says «Come and get me,» they come from both sides to the foot of the stairs.
• Buzz tells Megan that they live in the most boring neighborhood in America where nothing dangerous will ever happen. However, earlier in the movie he seemed to really think that Old Man Marley was a real serial killer living there, although he could have just been trying to scare Kevin and his cousin.
• When Tracy asks Heather if she ordered the pizza, Tracy calls Heather «Tracy» by mistake.
• When Kevin is shooting at the toys that fall down the laundry chute, he is closing the wrong eye for aiming a rifle.
• In the church, Old Man Marley’s granddaughter is seen with red straight hair. However, when Kevin looks out his window on Christmas Day and sees Old Man Marley hugging his granddaughter, she has brown curly hair instead of the appearance in the church.
• The night Harry and Marv break in to the house Kevin sits down and blesses his macaroni and cheese dinner just before the stroke of nine. This draws obvious attention to his plate. Later just before Harry is covered with feathers you can see a completely different plate with three sections of food on it.
• Kevin has a pizza delivered to the house even though the phones are supposed to down. There is never any indication of if or when the phones were restored, but in the preceding scene, Kevin’s father was trying to reach Kevin.
• When Harry grabs the heated doorknob with the «M» engraved on it, he grabs it with his knuckles at 9:00, facing left. After he puts his hand in the snow to cool it, he looks at it and sees the «M» upright on his hand.
• When Kevin goes across the street to his neighbors house entering through the flooded basement his clothes are soaked as he rushes up the stairs. In the next scene where he goes through the door to run into Harry and Marv his clothes are dry.
• Just before Marv and Harry step into the small pile of toy cars and slip up at the bottom of the stairs, Harry had been covered in feathers. In the next shot, there are no feathers on him at all, which mysteriously disappear.
• Towards the end of the movie, Kevin calls the police from his parents’ bedroom. This should be impossible, as the phones are out, which is why his parents could not reach him.
• Harry is seen wearing a wedding ring in the shot where Marv tries to kill the spider that is on Harry’s chest. Later in the movie Harry is no longer wearing the wedding ring.
• The stained glass window in the church is different in the interior and exterior shots. Seen from outside, it has four panels, while inside it has seven.
• When the characters are in the upstairs hallway, the walls change back and forth from being covered with a hunt club green wallpaper to being painted in a shade of green slightly different from the wallpaper. This is because some of the scenes were recreated on a sound stage at New Trier High School and they had to try and match the colors as best they could.
• Immediately after landing in Paris, Peter McCallister leaves a message on the Murphys’ answering machine while Marv and Harry are burglarizing it. The phones are still supposed to be down, and since the Murphys live across the street from the McCallisters, their phone service should be down as well.
• Kevin purchases a large bottle of laundry detergent at the grocery store. While walking home, the two plastic grocery bags he is carrying burst spilling their contents. The bottle of detergent is not among the contents that spill.
• While setting traps in preparation for the burglars, Kevin douses all the stairs outside his house with water. They freeze in a short time, indicating it to be quite cold. However, later when we see Kevin running across the Murphy’s driveway, not only are there visible liquid puddles, but he runs at a full sprint without so much as a slip.
• When Kevin is at the top of the stairs getting his sled ready one shot shows him throw his scarf over his right shoulder and it slips down his arm. In the next shot, from behind, the scarf is clearly thrown behind his shoulder.
• When Kevin and Buzz are first seen fighting over the pizza Kate rushes over to break it up, in the next shot when Peter is throwing away the napkins Buzz is seen running his hands through his hair, and Kate is calmly speaking with Kevin, and in the next shot after Aunt Leslie asks Fuller if he’s okay, Kate is seen attempting to break up the fight again and yells at Kevin.
• When Peter calls the Murphy home while Harry and Marv are robbing it, Marv picks the entire phone off the table. At this point a receiver is visible on the phone. In the next shot of Marv, it is gone. If it was, in fact, supposed to fall off, the answering machine would have been cut off anyway.
• The Christmas ornaments Kevin places by the tree under the window change positions repeatedly.
• After the McCallisters realize they’ve overslept and are frantically running around the house, Heather goes up the same set of stairs twice.
• When the McCallisters take off for Paris Orly from Chicago O’Hare, they are on board a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10, a tri-jet. When they land in Paris, they are on board a Boeing 757, a twin jet. Given that flight appears to be non-stop, the fact that they took off in a plane with three engines and landed in a plane with two engines is an error.
• The blind spot mirrors on the burglars’ van change positions and sometimes disappear between shots.
• When Kevin walks up to the church at night, there is a door clearly in the very center of the building. When Kevin is shown inside the church, there is a baptistery in the center where the door was on the outside.
• When Marv goes to look and see if anyone is home, Kevin is washing up and has his sleeves rolled up. He plays Angels with Filthy Souls and gets fire crackers out. He reaches into a drawer to get a lighter and we only see his arms where his sleeves are down. When you see a full view of him, his sleeves are rolled up again.
• Kate tells the pizza boy that her brother-in-law drove in from Ohio earlier that day with his family, yet later in the film only Kate and Peter’s cars are seen in the garage. There is no other vehicle parked anywhere near the house.
• While Kevin is in the kitchen with the whole family. Buzz is clearly stuffing the last piece of Kevin’s pizza in his mouth. In the next shot he is shown with half a piece of pizza in his hand and his mouth is not stuffed.
• After Harry touches the heated doorknob and Kevin flees from the door at 80:48-80:51 on the DVD, the charcoal lighter cord runs out of the foyer into the next room from which the camera is shooting. Later, when Harry and Marv are hit with paint cans at 84:18, the door and the red-hot charcoal lighter can be seen in the background, but its cord does not leave the foyer.
• When Kate is losing her temper with the desk agent in Scranton, her coat changes in how open or closed it is between shots.
• When Marv is trying to enter the basement, there’s snow on each side of the entryway. When the camera angle changes to show him from inside the basement, the snow is gone.
• When Harry and Marv are in the van and Harry is listing the automatic light cues, when Harry lists #671, the McCallisters’ house, we can see the lights turn on in their reflection on the van’s windshield. However, in the next shot, which is of the house, we can see the lights turn on again.
• When the cop starts to chase Kevin for stealing the toothbrush, they run past a woman in a red coat with a skate on her shoulder twice.
• When Harry and Marv follow Kevin in their van, they initially stop when they are slanted on the road. After the stop for when Kevin turns around to look at them, they are fixed perfectly against the curb.
• When Kevin first uses the BB gun to shoot the figurines down the laundry chute, he pumps the rifle forward and then back at 23:21 on the DVD. Later in the film when he prepares to shoot Harry and Marv through the dog door, he pumps the rifle back and then forward at 76:12.
• During most of the film, the pictures hung on the wall going up the main staircase are consistently fifteen in number, with Peter and Kate being the lower-most bottom-row photos, and Kevin being the one at the very top end, by itself. However, in a couple of scenes there are only 14 pictures — no Kevin up top; completely different non-closeup photos where Peter and Kate should be; and several other pictures are different too. The scenes are: When Kevin is crazily running around celebrating his newfound freedom at 22:22, and later when he is running upstairs screaming after seeing Old Man Marley in front of the house at 32:07.
• When the shopping bag bursts while Kevin is walking home from the store, the milk carton rolls a couple of times on the sidewalk. Realistically, a full carton of milk would just fall flat and not roll, due to the weight, making it appear that the carton was empty and not heavy, thus was able to roll a bit upon hitting the sidewalk.
• When Harry slips down the stairs while trying to go in through the front door, he drops his crowbar and doesn’t pick it up, but in the next long shot the crowbar is no longer on the ground right next to the steps.
• When Kevin is watching TV in the kitchen, there is a gingerbread house next to the TV in shots directly facing the TV. But when the shots are from the side (on Kevin watching TV), the gingerbread house is not there.
• When Kevin accidentally steals a toothbrush from a drug store, the cop who chases him falls on the ice after getting hit by a hockey player. He lands on his back and his hat starts to fall off his head and his arms are pushing the hat back on his head, but when the cop looks up and sees that Kevin got away, he is lying on his stomach and his hat is off his head.
• When Kevin is rifling through Buzz’s trunk, a box of Junior Mints moves around between shots.
• We see Kevin purchase and use a big bottle of laundry detergent. Yet at the end of the film, he tells his family that he bought «fabric softener».
• When the crime-boss in the «Angels with Filthy Souls» movie shoots Snakes with the Thompson gun, it makes just a few brief thin-sounding bursts of rapid-fire. Yet when Kevin is playing back his «clipped/rearranged» version of the movie to scare away the pizza-delivery guy, the gunfire is much deeper-toned and lasts a lot longer, and the individual ammo-round-discharge sounds are slower and more spaced out.
• Right after Marv hits Harry with the crowbar, due to the tarantula being on his chest, the Michael Jordan poster can be seen in Buzz’s room on the door all intact. However, Kevin had previously cut the poster out to make him look like a person at the party the previous night and had him going around on a train.
• Harry protects his burnt hand with a handkerchief when he climbs along the rope towards the tree house, but alternating shots show the tail of the handkerchief either sticking out or not.
• After Kevin steals the toothbrush, he slides between a hockey player’s legs. The hockey stick was between the player’s leg in the first shot, the next shot when Kevin slides through the player’s legs the stick is off to the player’s side.
• When Marv grabs Kevin by the leg as Kevin attempts to run up the stairs and into the attic. Kevin puts Buzz’s tarantula on Marv’s face in order to force Marv to let go of his leg. Kevin was carrying Buzz’s rifle on his back and it hadn’t occurred to him to whack Marv with it which could have knocked out Marv or hit him in the arm, which the pain would have forced Marv to let go.
• While Kevin is holding shears to cut the rope in the tree house, a few inches ahead of where he is to cut you can see something that looks like fishing line that is holding up the rope. This line is visible twice, as he appears with the cutters and again just as he is cutting the rope.
• When Kevin walks into Buzz’s room looking for his family after being left alone, on the bottom right of the frame, you can see a crew member’s leg.
• When the female police officer transfers Mrs. McCallister to Sgt. Balzak in the Crisis Center, a crew member’s reflection is seen in the glass just above the stenciled word «center.»
• When the police officer is chasing Kevin, the shadow of the camera is briefly visible on Kevin’s back.
• When Kate phones the Chicago Police from France, she calls them on a payphone that is a BT model that would not be seen in France.
• When the whole family arrives in Paris (which is really the underground walkway under the O’Hare Airport Hilton, that connects the terminals at O’Hare, and looks like it may include parts of the old Terminal 4), Kate uses a public phone to call home. But this device could not be French, because all phones available in France in the 90s required telephone cards and we clearly hear an operator instructing Kate to insert coins.
• When the plane takes off from Chicago, it is morning. It takes about seven or eight hours to fly from Chicago to Paris, and Paris time is seven hours ahead of Chicago time. That would put them in Paris around one or two in the morning. Yet when the plane arrives in Paris, it is already broad daylight.
• As the family bids farewell to Mom at the Paris airport, tail colors of an Eastern Airlines jet are visible outside the gate window. Eastern was a domestic U.S. airline and would not have serviced Paris.
• When Kate calls the police from France, the woman answers the phone «Village Police Department,» but when the officer goes to the McCallister home, he clearly has a City of Chicago flag on the right shoulder of his jacket.
• American Airlines has never flown a morning flight between Chicago and Paris.
• The plane shown landing at the Scranton Airport is a McDonnell Douglas DC-10. The Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Airport has never had regular service from a DC-10 by any airline. The largest planes to land at Scranton are Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s. DC-10s are far too large to be accommodated by the airport for non-emergency situations.
• The plane in the movie is a McDonnell-Douglas DC-10-10, which was flown by American Airlines, however it was only used for domestic flights due to its limited range of 3500 miles. There was a long range version used for intercontinental flights, the DC-10-30, but that one had three sets of rear landing gear. It is clearly visible during the takeoff scene that this one only has two sets of rear landing gear, so it is definitely a DC-10-10 which could have never made the trip from Chicago to Paris.
• When Marv picks up the answering machine while Peter is leaving a message the phone comes off the hook which would have affected the answering machine message being recorded.
• The Daisy BB gun shown on Buzz’s wall is used as a pump-action; however, the real model is lever-action.
• Kevin manages to set up all of his traps in less than an hour. Several of those traps would take at least an hour to do by themselves. For example, the water on the porch and basement steps would not freeze into a thick layer of ice within an hour.
• Kevin’s Daisy Red Ryder air rifle (notable by the distinctive shape of its trigger-guard and lever), has an additional pump-action mechanism which The Daisy Red Ryder has never had, and which would be unnecessary besides, due to the lever.
• When Kevin finally gets caught by the burglars at the neighbor’s house, they pick him up and hang him from a door hook in the kitchen by his sweater. If this was a regular knitsweater, Kevin’s body weight would cause the sweater to constrict into his neck and in effect strangle him. But it does not, revealing it to be that a brace is present or that it is a specially rigged sweater.
• Aside from Megan (Kevin’s elder sister) and to a lesser extent Kate, the rest of the family does not seem to be concerned about Kevin’s welfare while abroad.
• As Harry is driving down the driveway after a burglary he is wearing his black knit cap. Just after he hits the brakes to avoid hitting Kevin he pokes his head out to tell Kevin to be more careful and his cap is missing. However, he can clearly be seen removing his hat as he is winding the window down to speak with Kevin, which is why he is not wearing it in subsequent shots.
• On the phone with the French operator, Peter yells «I am looking for my son! Do you know where he is?» This seems a silly question since Peter should already know that Kevin is at the house, but in an earlier scene a police officer goes to the McCallister house and does not receive a response to repeated knocks and bell-ringings. It is likely that the police would have relayed this information back to the McCallisters and that this would explain Peter’s frantic mood.
• When Kevin is having a flashback of his family tormenting him, we see Linnie turn around and go down the stairs. When this actually happens, we don’t see her turn around at all. However, the other flashback visions were also not shown exactly as they had happened earlier in the film. They were all a little exaggerated as usually happens in a kid’s mind.
• When Kevin is at the counter of the grocery store, the clerk scans a bag of toy soldiers and looks at Kevin. He says, «It’s for the kids«. But when the clerk asks, «What about your brothers and sisters?» Kevin replies, «I’m an only child.» While this seems that Kevin is stumbling over his lies, he is not. He is at the grocery store alone, buying «grown up» things like orange juice, milk, bread, toilet paper, and laundry detergent. He is also reading a tabloid and discussing the quality of microwave dinners just as an adult does. When the cashier scans the toy soldiers she looks at him questioningly. Kevin makes a joke saying they are «for the kids» referring to his own children. Obviously he does not have children, but his purchases and actions make him seem grown up.
• When Kevin calls 911 to report that robbers are in his house, he uses a phone that says «Pacific Bell,» which isn’t available in Chicago. They would not receive service from Pacific Bell, but Pacific Bell does sell phones which can be used anywhere with any service.
• There is no explanation about why Old Man Marley had a bloody rag on his hand while in the store or a Band-Aid on his hand when he and Kevin shake hands in the church. However, the novelization by Todd Strassman explains that when he was in the store, he accidentally cut his hand on the blade of his shovel. Even without the novelization’s explanation, it is still likely that he had blisters on his hand caused by shoveling snow which burst, necessitating the bandage.
• The house loses power in the night from the falling tree branch. This causes them to oversleep. The power gets restored before they leave, obviously, because we see the parents’ alarm clock showing 12:00. The timers for the lights would be affected, and the lights would not turn on at the same time that the burglars were expecting. However, Kate asks Peter on the plane if they set the timers on the lights. Peter says «I did.» This indicates that they did in fact reset the timers.
• When the pizzas arrive, the guy says the cost will be $122.50. In the kitchen, however, Peter says «Ten pizzas times twelve bucks.», which would indicate the pizzas would cost $120.00. For the pizzas to cost $122.50, they would need to cost $12.25 each. However, the extra $2.50 was most likely added as a delivery charge, or an automatic gratuity considering the size of the order.
• In the beginning of the movie after Peter realizes he will not be able to shave in Paris without a power adapter, Kate tells him to grow a goatee. This would be impossible, since a goatee would still require shaving part of your beard. However, it seems like Kate is merely making a sarcastic joke while Kevin is bothering her.
• When Kevin makes the sign of the cross before eating his dinner, he makes it what would appear as wrong, touching his right shoulder first — however, some eastern Catholics, such as Byzantines, bless themselves in this manner.
• When the alarm clock turns off because of the power loss, we can clearly see that this Panasonic clock has a battery back-up feature, which means that even after the blackout, it should have still worked. However, a battery may not have been installed or may have been dead.
• Kate was unaware Kevin was missing until the family are in midflight on the plane. Given the family would have to go to the flight desk then security, Kate should have discovered Kevin was missing at the airport. But Peter threw away Kevin’s ticket along with the paper towels (they were red, like the ticket) in the kitchen scene, so there are 10 kids and 10 tickets.
• Before Kevin’s family goes to France, a repair man tells Kate the phone lines will take a few days to get fixed yet Kate manages to phone the police when the family arrive in Paris which should be impossible. The police Kate phones was probably located some distance from their home, and the phone lines there were not damaged.
• In a scene where a police officer arrives to pick up Kevin and bring him to his family, he kept knocking until he decided no one was home. In reality, a police officer would not assume anyone is home when Kevin was in the house as they would actually get him to come out of the house so that they could bring him to his family.
• When Kevin is sliding down the steps the toboggan is lined-up with the stairway, when he goes out the door, the toboggan is now lined-up with the doorway. He should have just crashed into the wall and not gone out the door.
• After Marv is hit with an iron, a wrinkle can be seen in the mark on his face revealing that the iron print was actually a plastic sticker. It can also be seen later when Kevin puts the tarantula on Marv’s nose.
• When the McCallisters are leaving in the morning and the neighbor boy is speaking with the van driver, he is mouthing the driver’s lines (the first time the driver speaks).
• The iron Marv pulls down has round holes, but the imprint it leaves on his face has rectangular ridges rather than round. Since the ridges on his face are caused by the holes in the iron, the shapes should match.
• When Marv slips at the bottom of the stairs near the basement door, the «ice» moves underneath, being a sheet of Plexiglas.
• As Kevin flies through the air outside the front door after he sleds down the stairs, you can see the rollers on the bottom of the toboggan.
• When Kevin cuts the rope in the treehouse, the rope clearly has far too much slack for even a single person, let alone Harry and Marv, to hang from it.
• Harry’s stunt double can be seen when he first slips off Kevin’s front steps. It is also the same stunt double in the behind shots as he holds onto the side railing while trying to climb the steps.
• Obvious stand-in for Harry as he walks towards the front door in the side-on shot. This person is much taller than Joe Pesci.
• While Jeff is zipping up his bag as Kevin tells him he never packed a suitcase, you can clearly see a newspaper protruding out.
• When Old Man Marley hits Marv with the shovel, it shows that Marv’s body is a mannequin.
• When Kevin is shooting the toys by the rifle into the laundry chute, you can see that the third bullet doesn’t hit the mark (the toy) but clearly passes above it (can be seen as a small dot of somewhat metallic color) and yet the toy falls down the chute.
• On the grocery store cashier’s register monitor, no changes whatsoever occur during the transaction.
• When Marv is hit in the face with the iron, if you look closely before he falls down you can see that the iron hits him on the forehead, but when he sits up, the iron has left an imprint that covers his entire face.
• Obvious stunt double in the long shots of Kevin swinging across to the treehouse.
• Each time that Kevin leaves his home and returns, he only turns the knob to enter the home. Clearly, he never uses a key. When he knew that the burglars would be coming back at 9:00 pm, he leaves the church, arrives home and runs directly into the house indicating it was already unlocked.
• When Marv and Harry are arguing in the van, they realize they are about to hit Kevin and screech to a stop. But the distance they had to stop was not enough time to avoid hitting Kevin. Nor did the distance shown at first match the next scene.
• When Harry and Marv are climbing across the rope and Harry tells Marv to go back, we see them from behind, then when it cuts to the shot facing them front-on, Kevin can be seen in the background about to cut the rope. If you look closely this is not Kevin, it is his stand-in.
• When Marv is climbing the basement stairs, his bare foot comes down on a nail which then makes him fall off the stairs. However, the shadow of his foot appears next to the nail rather than over it.
• Near the end of the film, as Kevin looks out of the window to see Marley reunited with his son, a hand holding a camera is clearly visible.
• When Marley is shown hitting Harry and Marv with the shovel, it is a double swinging the shovel.
• In the film that Kevin is watching, Angels with Filthy Souls. Johnny shoots Snakes with a Thompson machine gun. Snakes is standing in front of a door with a glass window. At the short range that Johnny shoots him, at least some of the bullets would have gone right through Snakes and broken the window.
• When Kevin almost gets hit by Harry’s Van, Harry tells him he needs to watch out for traffic. However, Harry is in the wrong here because one of the rules about driving is «always yield to the pedestrian, they have the right-of-way.»
• When Harry and Marv look around for Kevin at the church, the camera is in Harry’s view for 2 seconds, he can be seen wearing his beanie, but in the next shot, he is not wearing his hat.
• When Kevin is running home to prepare for Harry and Marv’s arrival, he runs from the church in green pants, but when it cuts to him making it home, his green pants turned into jeans, then when Kevin is setting up the micro-machines, he’s wearing green pants again. That’s because this scene was filmed in more than one day.
• On AMC (TV Channel) airings, the closed captions misinterpret Chuck Berry as «Chuck Berring».

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External links

• Home Alone at the Internet Movie Database

Home Alone franchise
Films	Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Home Alone 3 • Home Alone 4 • Home Alone: The Holiday Heist • Home Sweet Home Alone
Novelizations	Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Todd Strasser) • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (A.L. Singer)
YouTube	:DRYVRS: Just Me In The House By Myself • Home Alone Wet Bandit Resurfaces and Responds to Kevin McCalister’s Threatening Video • Home Alone Again with the Google Assistant
Soundtracks	Home Alone • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York • Home Alone 3
Video games	Home Alone • Home Alone 2 • Home Alone (2006)