I'm not saying that in a couple of decades it will be the new It's A Wonderful Life, but it will be remembered fondly at the very least. There are some movies that work best at Christmas and this is one of them. Although this is not the only point of the film, there is an important message that family is what really matters to a child, or to anyone, and having them home for the holidays is better than wandering a huge house all by yourself. Their idiot-proof determination proves to be their downfall, as they are tortured and torn-up upon entering Kevin's domain. Using whatever tools are at his disposal (rusty nails, blow torches, Micro Machines) he sets up a labyrinth of booby traps, so that the Wets can't break in. And seeing that he's man-of-the-house now, he HAS to defend it.

The Wet Bandits, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), are on the prowl and have knocked off every other house in Kevin's street. With the rest of the MacCallisters in Paris, Kevin runs wild doing whatever he wants, eating whatever he wants and watching whatever TV show he wants. It's hard for him to get this when living in a house with seven other people(the exact same house from Planes, Trains And Automobiles, don't you know0. He is an eight-year-old kid who wants nothing better than a peaceful Christmas and some time to himself. Damn! In a mad rush to the airport one morning, the MacCallister family forget one little thing.Kevin (Culkin). It was nominated for an Academy Award, along with the Christmas carol Somewhere In My Memory, but lost to John Barry's Dances with Wolves. The second is John Williams's magical score, which elevates the movie way above slapstick family fare to something more serious and regarded. The first is that it's about a kid who outsmarts grown-ups, something that happens every day, only there's a worldwide conspiracy of silence. There are two reasons why Home Alone was such a big success. Who would have known that this and its sequel would go on to become two of the biggest hits of all time? Both Hughes and Chris Columbus seem to prefer setting their movies during the holiday season (Gremlins, Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Christmas Vacation) and manage to pull them off without too much sentiment, or sickening amounts of gooey love.

This inspired Hughes to write a whole new movie.

Quite rightly, as most of them were seriously funny - I'm DEFINITELY not referring to Curly Sue, so relax! In one particular scene from Uncle Buck, Macaulay Culkin interrogates a babysitter through the letterbox to make sure she's not a baddie. In the Eighties, John Hughes churned out a handful of movies and scored many, many hits.

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