Home Alone Movie Review - Starring Macaulay Culkin - Joe Pesci - and Daniel Stern

By David Terr

"Home Alone" is a hilarious comedy starring 10-year-old Macaulay Culkin as a boy who's family accidentally forget to bring him along for Christmas vacation. Macaulay does a superb job in the movie, which is thoroughly entertaining, especially the part in which he foils two burglars who attempt to rob his house.

Kevin McCalister (Culkin) is the youngest of several kids of a large family in Chicago. Kevin is frustrated because he older brother continuously picks on him and he gets a lot of grief from his parents and the rest of his siblings. After getting into a fight with his mother, Kevin tells her that he wishes he'd never see any of them again.

The next morning, Kevin gets his wish as his family accidentally leave him behind as they leave for Paris. After realizing that his family is missing, he thinks he'd made them all disappear. Although a bit disturbed at first, he soon becomes overjoyed, realizing he's now free to do whatever he wants.

Kevin proves to be very resourceful, shopping and cleaning for himself. However, he has to deal with some big fears of his, including the heater in the basement and a scary neighbor Marley (Heard), whom he believes to be a killer at first.

Kevin's biggest problem turns out to be two burglars (Pesci and Stern), who are attempting to rob every home in the neighborhood. They prove no match for Kevin, however, who does everything he can think of to protect the house, including making the doorknob red hot, dropping a hot iron on one of their heads, and dousing the other one with glue and feathers. In the end, once the burglars capture Kevin, Marley rescues him by knocking them both on the head with a shovel. Macaulay calls the police on the burglars from his tree house and they soon come to arrest the burglars.

Kevin begins to miss his family, but they soon return and he becomes happily reunited with them.

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