Home Alone Wikipedia. Home Alone is a 1. American Christmascomedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin Mc. Callister, a boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for their Christmas vacation. Kevin initially relishes being home alone, but soon has to contend with two would be burglars played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The film also features Catherine OHara and John Heard as Kevins parents. Culkin was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor Musical or Comedy. After its release, Home Alone became the highest grossing live action comedy film of all time in the United States, and also held the record worldwide until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2. It is the highest grossing Christmas movie of all time at the North American box office when adjusted for inflation. Home Alone has spawned a successful film franchise with four sequels, including the 1. Home Alone 2 Lost in New York, the only Home Alone sequel to have the original cast reprising their roles. Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin. If youre in the mood to just listen to Christmas music, you can download it or stream that anytime. Watch Skin Online. FullLength Holiday Movies. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. NOwem/x360-Wrr.jpg' alt='Watch Christmas With The Kranks Download Full' title='Watch Christmas With The Kranks Download Full' />Watch todays Hollywood blockbusters and yesterdays timeless classic movies on FXM and celebrate the artistry of filmmaking. Directed by Joe Roth. With Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh. With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until. The Mc. Callister family is preparing to spend Christmas in Paris, gathering at Peter and Kates home outside of Chicago on the night before their departure. Peter and Kates youngest son, eight year old Kevin, is being ridiculed by his siblings and cousins. A fight with his older brother, Buzz, results in Kevin getting sent to the third floor of the house for punishment, where he wishes that his family would disappear. During the night, heavy winds cause damage to power lines, which causes a temporary power outage and resets the alarm clocks, causing the entire family to oversleep. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind. Kevin wakes up to find the house empty and, thinking his wish has come true, is overjoyed with his new found freedom. However, Kevin soon becomes frightened by his next door neighbor, Old Man Marley, who is rumored to have murdered his family with a snow shovel in 1. Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses in the neighborhood and have targeted the Mc. Callisters house. Kevin tricks the pair into thinking his entire family is home, forcing them to put their plans on hold. Kate discovers mid flight that Kevin is missing and, upon arrival in Paris, the family discovers that all flights for the next two days are booked. Peter and the rest of the family go to his brother Robs apartment in the city while Kate manages to get a flight back to the United States only to get as far as Scranton, Pennsylvania. She attempts to book a flight to Chicago but again, everything is booked. Unable to accept this, Kate is overheard by Gus Polinski, the lead member of a traveling polka band, who offers to let her travel with them to Chicago on their way to Milwaukee in a moving van, which she graciously accepts. Meanwhile, Harry and Marv realize that Kevin is home alone, and on Christmas Eve, Kevin overhears them discussing plans to break into his house that night. Kevin goes to church and watches a choir perform. He meets Old Man Marley, who sits with Kevin and they briefly speak he learns that Marley is actually a nice man and that the rumors about him are false. He tells Kevin he is watching the choir because his granddaughter is singing, but he never gets to see her because he and his son are estranged and have not been on speaking terms for some time Kevin suggests that he try to reconcile with his son. Kevin returns home and rigs the house with numerous booby traps. Harry and Marv break in, springing the traps and suffering various injuries. While the duo pursues Kevin around the house, he calls the police and flees the house, luring the duo into a neighboring vacant home. Harry and Marv manage to catch him and discuss how they will get their revenge, but Marley sneaks in and knocks them unconscious with his snow shovel before they can do anything to Kevin. The police arrive and arrest Harry and Marv, having identified all the houses they burgled due to the latters habit of flooding them. On Christmas Day, Kevin is disappointed to find that his family is still gone. He then hears Kate enter the house and call for him they reconcile and are soon joined by the rest of the Mc. Callisters, who waited in Paris until they could get a direct flight to Chicago. Kevin keeps silent about his encounter with Harry and Marv, although Peter finds Harrys missing gold tooth. Kevin then observes Marley reuniting with his son and his family. Marley notices Kevin and the pair wave to each other before Marley and his family go inside his house. Buzz suddenly calls out, Kevin, what did you do to my room at which point Kevin runs off. ProductioneditHome Alone was initially a Warner Bros. Century Fox took over the project, the budget grew from 1. Columbus work with Home Alone began several years earlier when Hughes helped him secure the directing job for National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. That project ended poorly when a personality clash between Columbus and Chevy Chase led to Columbus leaving the movie. Hughes then gave him the script to Home Alone, which he accepted. Hughes suggested to Columbus that they cast Macaulay Culkin in the main role because of his experience with the child actor while shooting Uncle Buck. Columbus met with other actors for the part, by his count hundreds and hundreds, as he felt it was his directorial responsibility. Columbus finally met with Culkin and agreed he was the right choice for the role. Due to Culkins age, he could only work until 1. PM which created shooting problems for the crew because of the movies many night time scenes. The films stunts also created tension for the crew during shooting. Columbus said, Every time the stunt guys did one of those stunts it wasnt funny. Wed watch it, and I would just pray that the guys were alive. Stunts were originally prepared with safety harnesses, but because of their visibility on camera, the films final stunts were performed without them. Some scenes were shot in a three story single family house located at 6. Lincoln Avenue8 in the village of Winnetka. The kitchen in the film was shot in the house, along with the main staircase, basement, attic and most of the first floor landing. The houses dining room, and all the downstairs rooms excluding the kitchen were duplicated on a sound stage to allow more room for equipment and crew. The house was built in 1. The tree house in the back yard was built specifically for the film and dismantled after filming ended. The scenes inside of the church were shot at Grace Episcopal Church, Oak Park, Illinois. For the film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls, shooting took only one day. To create the illusion that the film was a 1. Johnnys office used authentic items from that era. In May 2. 01. 1, the house was listed for sale at 2. March 2. 01. 2 for 1. The house is promoted as a tourist attraction and cited as an example of How to Get Your Home in the Movies. Initially Columbus hoped to have Bruce Broughton score the films, and early posters listed him as the composer. However, Broughton was busy with The Rescuers Down Under and he had to cancel at the last minute. From there Columbus was able to get in touch with Steven Spielberg who helped him contact John Williams to produce the final score. Christmas songs, such as O Holy Night and Carol of the Bells, are featured prominently in the film, as well as the films theme song Somewhere in My Memory. The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical in cassette on December 4, 1. CD on May 2. 7, 2. ReceptioneditBox officeeditHome Alone grossed 2. United States and Canada and 1. In its opening weekend, Home Alone grossed 1. January 1. 99. 1. Home Alone proved so popular that it stayed in theaters well past the Christmas season. It was the No. 1 film at the box office for 1.