When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry, madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys--armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and booby traps.

This is a wonderful, funny and heart felt film that follows the plight of young Kevin, who has been left behind when the family goes on holiday to New York. Columbus initially hoped to have Bruce Broughton score the film, and early posters listed him as the composer. The film is a comedy, the action takes place, as it is clear, on Christmas Eve, the idea is quite original, the actors also did their job well.

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.

In 'Home Alone 3' (1997) a band of hi-tech thieves have stolen a top-secret computer chip, and placed it inside a toy car. The house is being used by a royal heir and Kevin (in his usual style) manages to see off potential kidnappers whilst also making sure his parents get back together. 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. Films such as Home Alone and Die Hard (1988) 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.Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. 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.

million Poles were watching Home Alone on Christmas Eve; [120] by 2017, about four million people (11.

million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing live-action comedy until the release of The Hangover Part II (2011), and made Culkin a child star.

Kevin makes it seem like the house is not empty and fills the house with a collection of homemade booby traps. Kevin inadvertently ruins the family dinner after a scuffle with his oldest brother Buzz, in which Kevin's airplane ticket is unknowingly thrown away, resulting in Kate sending him up to the attic. 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".Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was released on the Super NES, NES, and Game Boy in 1992, and the MS-DOS, Sega Genesis, and NES in 1993. But this Christmas, Kevin (Michael Weinberg) is really in hot water again, and so are Marv (French Stewart) and his sidekick (Missi Pyle), who are trying to rob Natalie's house. 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". Ralph Foody, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern also appear in their Home Alone roles via archival footage. Michael Walsh of Nerdist noted the church scene as "One of the best, most touching scenes [in the film]".