Home Alone 3
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| Directed by | Raja Gosnell |
| Produced by | John Hughes Hilton A. Green |
| Written by | John Hughes |
| Starring | Alex D. Linz Rya Kihlstedt Lenny von Dohlen Aleksander Krupa David Thornton Haviland Morris Marian Seldes |
| Music by | Nick Glennie-Smith |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Editing by | Bruce Green Malcom Campbell |
| Studio | Hughes Entertainment 1492 Pictures |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | December 12, 1997 |
| Running time | 101 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $32 million |
| Box office | $79 million |
Home Alone 3 is a 1997 American family comedy film written and produced by John Hughes. It is the third film in the Home Alone series and the first not to feature actor Macaulay Culkin or director Chris Columbus. The film is directed by Raja Gosnell, who served as the editor of both original films, and stars Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, a resourceful boy who is left home alone and has to defend his home from robbers. The film was followed by a made-for-television sequel, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, in 2002.
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[edit] Plot
Four internationally wanted criminals named Peter Beaupre (Aleksander Krupa), Alice Ribbons (Rya Kihlstedt), Burton Jernigan (Lenny Von Dohlen), and Earl Unger (David Thornton) who have stolen a valuable missile cloaking computer chip for a North Korean terrorist group. They put it inside a toy remote control car to sneak it past security. At San Francisco International Airport, Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes) accidentally takes the bag with the remote control car in it. The four thieves arrive in Chicago and systematically search every house in Mrs. Hess' neighborhood to find the chip. Eight-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) is given the remote control car by Mrs. Hess for shoveling snow, and soon becomes ill with the chicken pox and must stay home. While at home, Alex sees the thieves through his telescope and calls the police. The thieves leave by the time the police come. After Alex reports the thieves again, they still manage to get away, and the police did not believe him. Alex decides to take matters into his own hands, and mounts a camera on his remote control car and attempt to film some footages of the thieves, who are searching in every house to find the chip. He eventually films Beaupre, but the remote control car is discovered before it can get away and Beaupre takes the tape, leaving Alex with nothing. Wondering what the thieves want with a remote control car, Alex opens it and discovers the stolen chip and immediately calls Chicago's Air Force Recruitment Center and informs them about the chip.
The thieves finds out that Alex has the chip and decides to go after him. They block off the road to the house, and Alice duct tapes Mrs. Hess to a porch chair in her garage and leaves the door open. By this point, Alex has armed his house with more violent booby traps. After several break-in attempts, the thieves pursue Alex. Alex runs to the attic and goes into the dumbwaiter down to the basement, and runs outside and calls to Alice, Jernigan and Unger. They see Alex and notice a trampoline below them. Jernigan and Unger jump, but the trampoline gives way and they fall into a frozen pool. Alice wriggles her way into the dumbwaiter chute, but falls down to the basement. Alex finally rescue Mrs. Hess and is cornered by Beaupre, but scares him off with a fake gun. Meanwhile, the FBI, who has also been tracking the stolen chip, goes to Alex's school after being tipped off by the Air Force. Alex's family brings the agents to their house, where the police arrest Alice, Jernigan, and Unger. However, Beaupre managed to escape and hides in the snow fort in the backyard. Alex's brother Stan's pet parrot drives the remote control car into the snow fort and threatens to light fireworks which are lined around the inside. Beaupre offers a cracker, but the parrot demands two. Since he only has one, the parrot then lights the fireworks, and escapes. Beaupre's cover is literally blown, and the police arrest him.
Sometimes later, Alex and his family celebrate with his father returning. Mrs. Hess, who befriends Alex after he successfully rescue her, is there along with the FBI and the police while Alex's house is being repaired. In the final scene of the film, while the four thieves are having their mugshot photos taken, they are shown to have Alex's chicken pox.
[edit] Cast
- Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, an eight-year-old child with a high IQ living in suburban Chicago.
- Olek Krupa as Peter Beaupre, leader of the four robbers.
- Rya Kihlstedt as Alice Ribbons, sole female of the four robbers.
- Lenny Von Dohlen as Burton Jernigan, one of the four robbers.
- David Thornton as Earl Unger, one of the four robbers.
- Haviland Morris as Karen Pruitt, Alex's mother.
- Kevin Kilner as Jack Pruitt, Alex's father.
- Marian Seldes as Mrs. Hess, Alex's elderly neighbor.
- Seth Smith as Stan Pruitt, Alex's older brother.
- Scarlett Johansson as Molly Pruitt, Alex's older sister.
- Neil Flynn as a Chicago police officer.
[edit] Production
Home Alone 3 was pitched at the same time as Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, and it was planned to produce both movies simultaneously; however, those plans fell through.
The idea for a third Home Alone movie was revived in the mid-1990s; early drafts called for Culkin to return as a teenage version of his character. However, Culkin had dropped out of acting. As a result, the idea was changed to make an entirely new film centering on a new cast of characters. It was filmed in New York City with the airport scenes in the beginning of the film being shot in two different concourses at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.
[edit] Reception
The film grossed $79,000,000 worldwide.[1] Critical reception for Home Alone 3 was generally negative upon release. It holds a 27% "rotten" rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews and was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for "Worst Remake or Sequel."[2] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, however, gave the film a positive review (3 out of 4 stars) and says he found it to be "fresh, very funny, and better than the first two".
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