🏠🎄 Home Alone (1990)

Let’s start by showing y’all the trailer 📽️

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Non-Spoiler Plot Rundown

It’s Christmas time in Chicago, and the McCallister family is heading to Paris for the holidays. But thanks to a chaotic morning and a string of unlucky coincidences, 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is left home alone. At first, Kevin revels in the freedom — eating whatever he wants, watching R-rated movies, and making a general mess of the place.

Unfortunately, two bumbling burglars — Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) — target the McCallister house. What follows is a masterclass in improvised booby traps, slapstick comedy, and creative pain distribution.


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Pros 👍

Macaulay Culkin’s iconic performance as Kevin 🎯

Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern as one of the funniest villain duos in film history 😂

The booby trap sequence is still one of the most brilliantly staged comedic finales ever 🪤

That warm John Williams score that feels like Christmas 🎶


Cons 👎

If you think too hard about the police response time… yeah, don’t



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Final Thoughts 💭

This is a Christmas classic that balances slapstick chaos with genuine heart. Kevin’s journey from bratty to brave is timeless, and Pesci/Stern’s over-the-top pain acting is comedy gold.

Rating: 10/10 🎄🎁


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🚨 Spoiler Breakdown 🚨

The first act shows Kevin’s wish to have no family around for Christmas — and the universe delivers in a way that would horrify most kids. Once the “Wet Bandits” begin casing the neighborhood, Kevin’s initial fear turns to resolve.

The third act is where the movie cements itself in Christmas movie history. Kevin’s traps — heated doorknobs, tar-covered stairs, paint cans to the face — leave Harry and Marv battered, burned, and humiliated. By the time they finally catch him, old man Marley swoops in with his snow shovel to knock them out cold.

The ending sees Kevin reunited with his mom and family, a little wiser — and possibly a budding engineer with a dark sense of humor.