Home Alone
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| Home Alone | |
 The 1st Home Alone movie poster. (Poster includes the Ontario Film Review Board classification) |
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| Directed by | Chris Columbus (home alone 1&2) Raja Gosnell (home alone 3) Rod Daniel (home alone 4) |
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| Produced by | John Hughes (director) |
| Written by | John Hughes (director) |
| Starring | Macaulay Culkin Alex D. Linz Mike Weinberg (all play main character) |
| Release date(s) | 1990 - 2002 |
| Running time | 414 minutes (all 4 movies) |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
Home Alone is a movie series that was based on the misadventures of a boy named Kevin (with the exception of the third film which focuses on a child named Alex Pruitt). The term usually refers to the first film in the series, which by the end of its run was the third highest grossing film of all time, making a major star of lead actor Macaulay Culkin.
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[edit] Home Alone
After a fight with his older brother, Buzz, over pizza, Kevin McCallister (Culkin) gets sent to the attic bedroom, where he wishes that his family would simply disappear. A power line failure during the night resets all the alarm clocks, and the rest of the family rushes the following morning to leave to go on a Christmas vacation to Paris, France. During the confusion, Kevin is accidentally left at home by himself and experiences what it is like to be independent for the first time. At the same time two intruders, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), plan to break-into the (almost) vacant home.
The movie is set in Christmas 1990.
[edit] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Kevin McCallister and his family are taking another Christmas vacation, this time to Miami, Florida. During the chaos at the airport, Kevin gets separated from his family and accidentally gets on a plane to New York City. After enjoying himself there for a while, he runs into his intruders from the original film, Harry and Marv, who have escaped from prison.
[edit] Home Alone 3
The film does not revolve around Kevin but centers on Alex Pruitt, a young boy who is home alone ill. At this time, four terrorists working for a North Korean terrorist group are sent by their boss to obtain a top-secret microchip that can act as a cloaking device for a missile. They succeed in retrieving the chip and hide it in a remote controlled car, but due to a luggage mix up at the airport with the Pruitt's neighbor, Mrs. Hess, the car lands in the hands of Alex who lives down the street from her. The four terrorists, three men and one woman, know the car is on Alex's street. So they search every house on the street. But Alex uses the car to get a video of them.
[edit] Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.
[edit] Box Office
| Title | Original Release Date | Director | Time Length | Worldwide Gross |
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| Home Alone | November 16, 1990 | Chris Columbus | 103 minutes | $476,684,593 |
| Home Alone 2: Lost In New York | November 20, 1992 | Chris Columbus | 120 minutes | $358,994,790 |
| Home Alone 3 | December 12, 1997 | Raja Gosnell | 102 minutes | $79,082,516 |
| Home Alone 4: Taking Back The House | November 3, 2002 | Rod Daniel | 89 minutes | n/a (television movie) |
| Total Films 1-4 | 414 minutes | $914,761,898 | ||
[edit] Reception
| Film | Rotten Tomatoes | Metacritic | Yahoo! Movies | |
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| Home Alone | 47% | N/A | 63/100 | 4 1/2 * |
| Home Alone 2: Lost In New York | 18% | N/A | N/A | 4 1/2 * |
| Home Alone 3 | 24 % | N/A | N/A | 4 * |
| Home Alone 4: Taking Back The House | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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