Home Alone (funniest comedy for kids)

Directed by Chris Columbus,Raja Gosnell
Produced by John Hughes
Written     by John Hughes
Release date: November 16, 1990
Running time:    103 minutes

Plot

The extended McCallister family prepares to spend the Christmas holiday in France, gathering at Peter and Kate’s (John Heard and Catherine O’Hara) home in Chicago the night before their flight. Eight year-old Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), Peter and Kate’s son and the protagonist of the film, finds himself the subject of ridicule from the other children. After getting into a fight with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) because Buzz ate Kevin’s cheese pizza on purpose, he is sent to the third floor of the house, wishing his family would disappear. When a power failure causes the McCallisters to wake up late, they accidentally leave the sleeping Kevin behind as they hastily depart to the Chicago O’Hare International Airport, for a flight to Paris-Orly Airport. During the flight, Kate realizes that they have left Kevin behind, and once everyone is in Paris, she immediately tries to book a return trip back to Chicago. Kate manages to fly into Dallas and Scranton, but cannot get a flight back to Chicago. However, she does manage to hitch a ride with a man named Gus Polinski (John Candy) and his polka band, who are driving to Milwaukee after their flight was cancelled.

Meanwhile, Kevin wakes up to find the house empty and is elated that his wish came true. He gets away with taking Buzz’s life savings, shooting with Buzz’s gun, jumping on the bed, watching a gangster film, and eating a large amount of junk food. However, Kevin finds himself scared by the appearance of the Chicago Police Department (called by his parents to check on Kevin via payphone from Paris-Orly), his next door neighbor “Old Man” Marley, who was rumored to have murdered his family many years before, and the appearance of the “Wet Bandits”, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), who are breaking into other vacant houses along the block. On Christmas Eve, Kevin manages to overhear Harry and Marv discuss plans for breaking into his house that night. After conversing with a Santa Claus impersonator and watching a local choir perform in a church in hopes to have his family return, Kevin runs into Marley and comes to realize that the man is quite friendly and that none of the rumors about him are true. Kevin finds out that Marley is estranged from his son and suggests that he reunite with him for Christmas.

His own spirits lifted by encouraging Marley, Kevin returns home to prepare a series of booby traps about the house. Harry and Marv, who were initially fooled by Kevin’s illusions that the house is occupied but now realize that he is home alone, attempt to break in, running into the various traps. After the Wet Bandits spring almost every trap in the house (i.e. Marv losing his shoes and socks to the highly-adhesive tar on the basement staircase, both slipping on the drenched stairs, Harry burning his hand on the heated door-knob (the “M” that was branded on his hand is seen in the second film), and Marv stepping on broken and jagged Christmas ornaments), Kevin flees to the third floor of the house, and dials 9-1-1 from a landline. The Wet Bandits manage to chase Kevin out of the house; he then flees to the vacant neighboring home, which was unlocked and unoccupied. The Wet Bandits trap Kevin when he runs to the top of the stairs connecting the basement and the first floor, but Marley knocks them out with his snow shovel and they are arrested. Additionally, the police were aware of every house the Wet Bandits have hit due to their habits of leaving the household’s water running.

Kevin wakes up the next morning to find that his mother has returned. Shortly afterward, the rest of the McCallisters, having traveled directly to Chicago from Paris, arrive. Kevin keeps silent his encounter with the intruders, but Peter finds Harry’s missing gold tooth where he was hit with a paint can the night before and wonders what it is. Kevin discovers that Marley took his advice and watches from the window as he and his son reunite, smiling. However, Buzz interrupts Kevin’s musings, yelling, “Kevin! What did you do to my room?!”. Immediately following that line, the movie concludes.

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