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    Home Alone (1990)

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    This story of a young boy outwitting a duo of bungling burglars with an intricate series of booby traps turned child actor Macaulay Culkin into one of Hollywood’s highest-paid stars.

    The McCallister clan gather in Peter and Kate’s Chicago home prior to flying off to spend Christmas in Paris.

    In the chaos of leaving they overlook 8-year-old Kevin (Culkin). Once in the air, his absence is noted but snowstorms prevent his distraught mother (Catherine O’Hara) from getting back to him.

    Kevin can’t believe his luck. He watches forbidden videos, eats his favourite junk food, rifles through his brother’s things and sleeps in his parents’ bed. He does get scared, though, and when two burglars, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) decide to break into the house he gets really scared.

    However, courage and resourcefulness come to the fore as he devises elaborate and painful booby traps to deter them.

    homealoneCulkin had already appeared in a couple of films, but his extraordinarily self-possessed and all-encompassing performance in Home Alone launched him into child superstardom. He earned $100,000 for this film, and by the time he made Home Alone 2 in 1992 he commanded $5 million.

    John Hughes (who had already snared the teenage market in the 1980s) both wrote and produced this massive Christmas hit. Home Alone made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the Highest Comedy Box Office Grosser with international earnings of $533 million.

    Kevin McAllister
    Macaulay Culkin
    Harry
    Joe Pesci
    Marv
    Daniel Stern
    Peter McAllister
    John Heard
    Kate McAllister
    Catherine O’Hara
    Marley
    Roberts Blossom
    Linnie
    Angela Goethals
    Buzz
    Devin Ratray
    Uncle Frank
    Gerry Bamman
    Megan
    Hillary Wolf
    Gus Polinski
    John Candy
    Officer Balzak
    Larry Hankin
    Jeff
    Michael C. Maronna
    Heather
    Kristin Minter
    Sandra
    Daiana Campeanu
    Rod
    Jedidiah Cohen
    Fuller
    Kieran Culkin
    Tracy
    Senta Moses
    Brook
    Anna Slotky
    Aunt Leslie
    Terrie Snell
    Mitch Murphy
    Jeffrey Wiseman
    Georgette
    Virginia Smith
    Steffan
    Matt Doherty
    Johnny
    Ralph Foody
    Snakes
    Michael Guido
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    Ray Toler
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    Clarke Devereux

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