Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
	File:HomeAlone2.png Home Alone 2: Lost in New York DVD cover
Directed by	Chris Colombus
Written by	John Hughes
Produced by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin; Joe Pesci; Daniel Stern
Running time	120 min.
Language	English

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the highly successful 1990 film Home Alone, produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Dana Ivey, and Brenda Fricker co-star.

Veteran Hughes actor Eddie Bracken, "Brat Pack" actress Ally Sheedy, and real estate mogul Donald Trump make cameo appearances. The movie was filmed in Winnetka, IL, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was star Culkin's hometown at the time).

Plot

Template:Spoiler Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, who once again is separated from his family during a Christmas vacation trip. This time his family travels via Chicago to Miami, Florida, Kevin ends up losing his dad in O'Hare International Airport and gets on a different flight to New York City via LaGuardia Airport. In New York City, Kevin befriends the owner of a toy store and a homeless pigeon lady who looks frighteningly like Kingsway Olympic coach Graham Wilson(played by Brenda Fricker). Kevin uses his dad's credit card to check into The Plaza Hotel.

The hotel's concierge (played by Tim Curry) gets suspicious about Kevin's origins, and finds out that Kevin has committed credit card fraud. When Kevin learns that his nemeses (formally know as the "Wet Bandits", and now known as the "Sticky Bandits") from the first film, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), have escaped from prison and plan to rob the toy store, he knows he must stop them. In the end, the McCalister family had a vacation in New York, and Kevin's brother shouts, "Kevin! You spent $967.00 on room service?"

The traps Kevin uses on the bandits are more elaborate and the scene of all of them was at a renovated apartment. Harry tries to jump on a high ladder but slips off of it and lands on his back because the rungs are coated in liquid soap. He then has tools dropped on his head from an overhead bag after he opens a door. Then he gets his hair on fire( again) and tries to douse it in the toilet not knowing there was kerosene in it. After trying to climb another ladder it falls down taking Harry with it because Kevin sawed part of it. Along with Marvy Harry ducks some paint cans but is knocked down into the basement by a large metal pipe. The pipe is cut down by Kevin and it rolls down the stairs and lands on the two. Harry and his partner are crushed between a door and a wall after a big tool chest rolls down the penthouse stairs and bashes through. Finally after trying to climb down a rope outside, Kevin lights it up for it was also doused in kerosene. Frantically climbing up, the two bandits fall down and break through some floorboards which launch barrels of turpentine into the air and on them.

While alone, Marv suffers several staples fired into him from a staple gun hidden behind the front door every time he pulled the door knob, falling through two floors into the basement, slipping on soap and sliding into shelves with various paint cans, near-lethal electrocution, and a bag of cement falling on his head. He climbs out of the basement just in time to see Harry and the ladder fall down.

Even though the two capture Kevin, the pigeon lady rescues Kevin by throwing bird seed on the crooks which stick to the turpentine, and dozens of pigeons swarm the two frightened men. Kevin calls the cops and the "Sticky Bandits" are arrested.

Popular New York City landmarks featured include the Statue of Liberty, the World Trade Center towers, the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, Chinatown, Radio City Music Hall, Carnegie Hall, Times Square, La Guardia Airport, and Rockefeller Center.

Home Alone 3 followed in 1997 without Macaulay Culkin or much of the original cast. Home Alone 4, a TV movie, was released on DVD in 2003.

Taglines

He's up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.
Yikes! I did it again!
First, he was home alone, now he's lost in New York.

Video games

As with the first Home Alone movie, video games based on the sequel were released for such systems as Sega Genesis, NES, SNES, Game Boy and PC, mostly in late 1992.

A separate hand-held game was released by Tiger Electronics.

Trivia

The "Talkboy" hand-held tape recorder used by Kevin was specially designed for the movie. After its success at the box office, Tiger Electronics sold a retail version of the Talkboy tape recorder; several versions of the device followed suit, including a pink-colored "Talkgirl", a "Talkboy" pen, and "Talkboy, Jr.," a pocket-sized version of the recorder.
The green slime that Kevin purchases at Duncan's and utimately uses to foil the Wet Bandits, was marketed after the film was released.
Donald Trump makes a cameo appearance. He is the man giving Kevin directions when he first enters the Plaza Hotel.
Angela Goethals, who played Kevin's sister Linnie is the only member of the original cast not to appear in Home Alone 2.
Kevin's room number is 411.
When Kevin is watching "Fly Bait" he comments "She's Rat Bait!" instead
Like the film Angels With Filthy Souls in the first film, Kevin's hotel video rental Angels With Even Filthier Souls is not a movie but rather specially-created footage. Both movies were an homage to the 1939 film Angels With Dirty Faces.
The 1-800 number featured in the film is the actual direct line to the Plaza Hotel's reservations desk.
Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the scene in which Kevin visits the World Trade Center was removed from many television broadcasts of the film, presumably to avoid creating painful memories that would subtract from the otherwise cheerful montage.

Quotes

Gangster Johnny on TV: Hold it right there!
Girl Gangster on TV: It's me, Johnny.
Gangster Johnny on TV: I knew it was you. I could smell you getting off the elevator.
Waiter: Two scoops, sir?
Kevin: Two? Make it three. I'm not driving.
Girl Gangster on TV: Gardenias, Johnny. Your favorite.
Gangster Johnny on TV: You was here last night, too, wasn't you?
Girl Gangster on TV: I was singing at the Blue Monkey last night.
Kevin: She was not. She was smooching with your brother.
Gangster Johnny on TV: You was here, and you was smooching with my brother.
Girl Gangster on TV: That's a dirty lie!
Kevin: See.
Gangster Johnny on TV: Don't give me that. You've been smooching with everybody! Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff...I think I could go forever, baby.
Girl Gangster on TV: You have me all wrong.
Gangster Johnny: All right, I believe you, (grabs Tommy gun) but my Tommy gun don't!
Girl Gangster on TV: Johnny... You're the only duck in my pond.
Gangster Johnny on TV: Get down on your knees, and tell me you love me.
Girl Gangster on TV: Baby, I'm over the moon for you.
Gangster Johnny on TV: You gotta do better than that!
Girl Gangster on TV: If my love is in the ocean, Lindy will have to take two airplanes to get across.
Gangster Johnny on TV: Maybe I'm off my hinges, but I believe you. That's why I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna give you til' count of three to get you lousy, lyin', low-down, four flushing carcass out my door.
Kevin: She's rat bait
Gangster Johnny on TV: 1... 2...
(fires Tommy gun, and kills the gangster girl)
Gangster Johnny on TV: 3. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. (fires again) And a Happy New Year. (fires again)

Frank McCallister: (after Kevin sees him laughing) Get out of here, you nosey little pervert, or I'm gonna slap you silly!

Gangster Johnny on TV: Hold it right there!
Mr. Hector: This is the concierge, sir.
Gangster Johnny on TV: I knew it was you. I could smell you getting off the elevator. You was here last night, too, wasn't you?
Mr. Hector: Yes, sir. I was.
Gangster Johnny on TV: You was here, and you was smooching with my brother.
Mr. Hector: (smiling) I'm afraid you're mistaken, sir.
Gangster Johnny on TV: Don't give me that. You've been smooching on everybody. Snuffy, Al, Leo, Little Moe with the gimpy leg, Cheeks, Boney Bob, Cliff
(everyone stares at Cliff) Officer Cliff: No. It's a lie.
Gangster Johnny on TV: I think I could go forever, baby.
Mr. Hector: I'm terrible sorry, sir, but I'm afraid you're mistaken. We're looking for the young man.
Gangster Johnny on TV: All right, I believe you, (grabs Tommy gun) but my Tommy gun don't. Get down on your knees, and tell me you loved me.
Mr. Hector: On your knees. I love you!
Gangster Johnny: You gotta do better than that!
Mr. Hector, Mrs. Stone, Cedrick, Cliff, and Security Guard: I love you!
(Kevin leaves the room)
Gangster Johnny on TV: Maybe I'm off my hinge, but I believe you. It is why I'm gonna let you go. I'm gonna give you til' the count of three to get you lousy, lyin', low-down, four flushing carcass out my door. 1...
(Everyone tries to get away)
Gangster Johnny on TV: 2... (fires the machine gun, and everyone ducks the attack.) 3. Merry Christmas, you filthy animal. (fires again) And a Happy New Year. (fires again)
Mr. Hector: Stay in your rooms! This is an emergency! There's an insane guest with a gun!
Kevin: (After realizing he is in NYC) "Oh my God, I did it again!"

New York Sights

The following landmarks and other New York City points of interest are seen in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York:

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