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Home Alone 3: Directed by Raja Gosnell. With Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen. Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off four international criminals who are seeking a top-secret microchip in his toy car.
- (128K)
- Action, Comedy, Crime
- Raja Gosnell
- 1997-12-12
Home Alone 3 is a 1997 American family comedy film directed by Raja Gosnell in his directorial debut, written and co-produced by John Hughes, and starring Alex D. Linz and Haviland Morris.
Down with the chickenpox, smart eight-year-old Alex Pruitt finds himself home alone with his new toy: a radio-controlled car crammed with highly classified government secrets. Before long, a ruthless quartet of inept international spies, who desperately want the car back, break into the vacant house bent on retrieving the encrypted information.
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Terrorist plot
In Hong Kong, a mob boss for a North Korean terrorist organization hires participants and reveals a plan to steal a U.S. $10 million missile cloaking microchip. One of the participants, prolific criminal Petr Beaupre (Krupa), forms a quartet of associates; Earl Unger (Thornton), Burton Jernigan (Dohlen), and Alice Ribbons (Kihlstedt), for this mission. Beaupre flies to the United States and arrives in Silicon Valley, California, where he meets his associates. A man arrives from AXUS Technolog...
Luggage mix-up
The criminal quartet arrive at the airport and check in for their flight, with time to spare. However, extra security screening procedures result in a luggage mix-up, causing a Chicago-bound elderly passenger named Mrs. Hess (Seldes), who is carrying loaves of sourdough bread in an identical Parisian shopping bag, to inadvertently take the criminal quartet's bag containing the remote control car. Alice does not realize this until she discovers the sourdough packages in Mrs. Hess' bag. Splitti...
The Pruitt family introduced
8-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) is given the remote control car by Mrs. Hess for shoveling snow, but she lectures him for scratching numerous itches. After returning home, Alex undresses to discover that he is ill with chickenpox and therefore, must stay home from school. At the same time, the thieves arrive at Mrs. Hess' neighborhoodlate at night in a rented minivan, wherein they vow to return in the morning. Alice later acquires a house nearby and the thieves use it as their hideout,...
Alex D. Linz as Alex PruittOlek Krupa as Petr BeaupreRya Kihlstedt as Alice RibbonsLenny von Dohlen as Burton JerniganThe film 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 Alonemovie 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 ac...
The film grossed $79,000,000 worldwide. Critical reception for the film 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." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, however, gave the film a positive review (3 out of 4 sta...
Home Alone 3 is the only film in the franchise to not take place leading up to or during Christmas; instead, it takes place weeks after Christmas. This is proven by the following factors:It was originally going to have Macaulay Culkinreturn as Kevin and he would face a new pair of burglars, however, Macaulay Culkin got tired of the role and was now a teenager.This film, along with Home Alone 2, are the only two movies that showed the villains with firearms. Two minor differences should be noted:After filming concluded, David Thornton (Earl Unger) got a very short haircut. This was why his character appeared in the picture of the back of the VHS/DVD case with short hair.9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip.
- Raja Gosnell
- PG
- Alex D. Linz
Dec 12, 1997 · This movie follows the exact formula of the first two, but is funnier and gentler, has a real charmer for a hero, and provides splendid wish fulfillment and escapism for kids in, say, the lower grades. There is even a better rationale for why the hero is left home alone.
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Summary: Alex D Linz assumes the Culkin mantle to take on four high-tec industrial spies who have hidden a microchip in a remote-control toy car. Alex inadvertantly gets...
