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Home Alone is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise , the film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, a young boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him ...
Home Alone [a] is a series of American Christmas family comedy films originally created by John Hughes. Chris Columbus directed Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Raja Gosnell directed Home Alone 3 (1997), Rod Daniel directed Home Alone 4 (2002), Peter Hewitt directed Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) and Dan Mazer ...
Nov 16, 1990 · Home Alone. Comedy. 103 minutes ‧ PG ‧ 1990. Roger Ebert. November 16, 1990. 3 min read. “Home Alone” is a splendid movie title because it evokes all sorts of scary nostalgia. Being left home alone, when you were a kid, meant hearing strange noises and being afraid to look in the basement – but it also meant doing all the things that ...
- It Is One of The Highest-Grossing Comedies Ever.
- It Also Dominated at Theaters For Longer Than Most Blockbusters Do
- Its Success Inspired A Verb
- It Was Born as A Result of John Hughes’ Travel Anxiety
- Chris Columbus Directed Home Alone Instead of Christmas Vacation
- Culkin’s Role in Uncle Buck Basically Got Him The Lead in Home Alone
- Chris Farley Auditioned For The Role of Santa Claus
- Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern Were Friends Long Before Being Cast in Home Alone
- Robert de Niro Turned Down The Role of Harry
- Stern Faked His “Tarantula Scream”
To date, Home Alone has made $476.7 million dollars. That’s a lot for any movie, and it’s particularly a lot for a comedy, since the movies that Americans find funny don’t necessarily translate well overseas. Bonking burglars in the head with paint cans, however, is a universal language. The Hangover Part IIdid better – $586 million to date – but i...
It opened at No. 1 and then stayed there for 12 weeks – until Feb. 10, 1991, long after most people had taken down their Christmas decorations. The Julia Roberts star vehicle Sleeping with the Enemyfinally knocked it out.
According to William Goldman’s 2001 collection of essays, The Big Picture, “to be Home Aloned” – Hollywood jargon as an expression – means to have the financial success of a given movie impaired by the inexplicable continued success of another film.
Chicago Magazine recently collected an oral history of Home Alone, and an intro by James Hughes, son of the legendary writer-director, explains that the film originated as a stray thought his father had during a family trip to Europe in 1989: “What if one of the kids had been accidentally left behind?” He wrote the script two weeks after returning ...
As Columbus told Chicago Magazine, he’d always wanted to direct a Christmas movie and was up to direct National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – until he met Chevy Chase. “To be completely honest, Chevy treated me like dirt,” Columbus said. “There’s no way I can do this movie. I know I need to work, but I can’t do it with this guy,” Columbus recalled...
Hughes had directed Culkin in 1989’s Uncle Buck. “I think John knew all along that he wanted Macaulay in the movie I thought he was great in Uncle Buck, but I owed it to myself as director to see other child actors. John said, ‘Okay, take your time, do what you need to do,’ ” Columbus recalled. “I ended up seeing 200 other kids, looked over hundred...
Ken Hudson Campbell, the actor who got the role, recalled to Chicago Magazinehow the Saturday Night Live legend tried out for the part. “Apparently, he was out all night and had just been dropped off after a night of shenanigans, shall we say. Farley was kinda making catcalls to the girls who worked in the office. I was thinking, ‘Oh, boy!'” he sai...
Stern told Chicago Magazine that they’d previously shared screen time in the the 1982 Jill Clayburgh film I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can. “Everyone assumed we were thrown together for the first time on Home Alone, but we’d made each other giggle on the set in another movie years before that we were both cut out of: I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can. We pl...
Of course, it’s hard to imagine anyone other than Joe Pesci playing the role, but according to Mental Floss both De Niro and Jon Lovitzpassed on playing the angrier of the two burglars.
Because actually screaming wouldn’t have frightened the tarantula, Stern had to mime the scream – and then scream his lungs out in post.
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Nov 16, 2015 · Home Alone isn’t really about meting out cartoonish violence to prospective burglars. It’s about a child proving his worth as leader of the family home.
May 1, 2018 · Home Alone strikes a balance between slapstick comedy and heartfelt moments, resulting in a film that appeals to both children and adults. The screenplay by John Hughes expertly blends humor and sentimentality, highlighting the importance of family, love, and the holiday spirit.
Nov 16, 1990 · Home Alone: Directed by Chris Columbus. With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard. An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
