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Home Alone

Home Alone

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Kid Vs. Burglers! Welcome aboard.
Review: I like this film. I like how this film is funny, and very nice to watch. I like the way the kid comes up with all sorts of boobytraps to defeat the bad guies. Oh yeah! That evil, bad, and nasty Harry and Marve. I also like the quotes from the film. I apparently can't say them all because I don't want to spoil it. I like the way Macaulay Culkin plays Kevin. It's the best film I watched since 1990. Alright future home alone fans. This is a pretty good film for all of you. Buy it and enjoy. You shal love it. Why? It's the holidays! right? Right.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great!!!
Review: Screwball comedy about a small boy who's left behind by his parents at Christmas. Popular farce offers plenty of slapstick and tounge-in-cheek humor for adults and young teens.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Great movie..one of my favorits!
Review: Bought this used and it is slightly, had a few lines go through it but totally watchable, and the shipper shipped it fast!
This movie is soooo awesome. I bought it for myself...been asking for it for xmas for years now and couldn't find it at the stores. I think it's for both adults and children.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 1 of my favs.
Review: i think that homealone is one of the best movies that i have ever seen and belive me i have seen over 1,000 movies not jokeing. but out of all the movie i own that is the best one tha only other movie this compares to is love and basketball that was also one of my favs.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Bumbling Burglars Meet the Kid From Hell
Review: I love films that are hilarious and yet have a message.

In that regard, "Home Alone" has to be one of my all-time favorites.

"Home Alone" is funny and has colorful wintry Christmas scenes of snowy Chicago. A little eight-year-old boy (Macaulay Culkin)gets left behind by a freak oversight when his parents and a multitude of houseguests leave on a trip to Paris. The night before they leave, he gets into a fight with an older brother and is punished, so informs his mother he is sick of his family and wishes he never had to see any of them again. The next morning when he discovers them gone, he thinks his wish has been granted, and is at first happy. Then he begins to get lonely and regrets his wish.

Meanwhile, a couple of incompetent crooks decide to burglarize Kevin's house. Kevin gets wind of the plot, and devises numerous booby-traps and stratagems to defeat them, often with hilarious results. The confrontation with these would-be burglars provides the conflict and humor, without which there would be no story and no fun. However, "Home Alone" shines as a movie because it is more than the numerous belly laughs it produces. The film also has a subtle moral message, i.e., don't take your loved ones for granted.

An old, bearded man lives next door to Kevin, and the popular fiction among the neighborhood children is that he is some kind of "snow shovel murderer." He isn't of course, and after a couple of scary run-ins with the old man, the hero kid, Kevin, meets by chance the old man in a church at night listening to a choir sing Christmas carols. The old man talks to him, tells him misunderstandings between family members are common, and even when loved ones hurt you, you never stop loving them, even when you think you want nothing more to do with them. Then the old man confesses that he has had a dispute with his own son for a couple of years that has prevented him from seeing his own granddaughter. So Kevin advises him to call his son and end the dispute, but the old man says he is afraid to do so. But Kevin tells him the only way to conquer his fear is to just go ahead and do it.

The interesting plot elements here are (1) the old man acts as "the wise old man," the mentor, which is one of the 12 archetypes of myth used so effectively by fiction writers for millennia, and (2)the old man is a mirror of the little boy. It is interesting to see how often a "mirror," i.e., a literary device, is used in fiction, and how effective it is at underscoring the nature of the conflict or the characters.

The film has a happy ending, of course, with the boy and the old man both solving their family problems. They share a common epiphany and resolution as each reunites with his family, a warm and satisfying end to this warm holiday tale.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Modern Holiday Classic!!
Review: Home Alone is a very funny movie it is charming and very appealing! Maculay Culkin is great as Kevin and Daniel Stern and Joe Peschi are wonderful as the bumbling crooks Marv and Harry, they are hilarious! I highly recommend this video!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Holiday classic, but not perfect
Review: I was 8 years old when this movie debuted, and needless to say, I loved it. Especially the 30 minute sequence that climaxes when the burglars (Pesci and Stern, both playing their over the top characters with a great zeal) have to deal with Kevin's boobytraps.
However, in retrospect as an almost 20 year old, that sequence is the one thing that holds back this movie from reaching the heights of, say A Christmas Story. The rest of the movie is excellent, taking the simplistic themes of childhood abandonment and family...and squeezing the utmost honesty and laughter out of each scene. Try not to let your inner child giggle with excitment as the young protagonist gleefully jumps on his parents bed WHILE eating popcorn, or going grocery shopping by yourself, and getting anything you want.
Culkin couldn't have done a better job capturing the little kid that can irritate you to no end, but you deeply adore.

My sister(a senior in high school) and I (a sophomore in college) make it a point to watch this after every Thanksgiving dinner, kicking off the holiday season. This movie will most likely become a similiar tradition in your household, if two grown up kids love it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great movie for the family.
Review: I absolutely loved this move, as well as my husband. It seems like everytime it's on we watch it. We think the best part is how he accomodates himself to being alone, like going to the grocery store and to the drugstore to buy a toothbrush. We also like the part where he befriends the neighbor who everyone thinks is crazy and wicked when he really is just lonely. We have friends whose 4 year old watches this movie at least three times a week and practically knows all the words by heart. So this makes it a very great family film and great to watch at family get-togethers or over the holidays!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Home Alone is great
Review: Home Alone is one of the best comedy movies ever.Better than 3 of course.Kevin is left alone after his family forgets him.He's having the time of his life alone,until trouble finds him.2 crooks Harry and Marv want to rob his house.With the booby traps Kevin is ready to send those crooks on a ride they wont forget!Very Recommeded!!! 1st one rulz,2nd one is great,3rd one is ok but not that good.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: What's the matter with you!
Review: I seen that video Home Alone with Kevin McCallister {Macaulay Culkin} and when they ate pizzas at night for dinner Buzz ate Kevin's pizza on purpose and Kevin's brother Buzz told him to get a plate and he was running mad and knocked the milks on the family's passports and Kevin's mother Kate {Catherine O'Hara} yelled, "What's the matter with you!" "Kevin Upstairs," Peter McCallister {John Heard} Kevin's dad yelled. They left without him on a family vacation to Paris on an airplane.


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