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Mood:
- HumorousExciting
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Plot:
- Mischievous ChildrenYoung HeroesCrime Gone AwryNothing Goes RightChild in DangerWhen the Parents Are AwayCrimesDanger more...
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Genres:
- ComedyFamilyHollywood Tone
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Time/Period:
- 20th Century80s
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Place:
- IndoorsSuburbsChicago
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Audience:
- Family OutingKids
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Praise:
- Award WinnerBlockbusterModern Classic
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Humor:
- SlapstickSilly Humor
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousRealisticFast
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Home Alone, 1990
English
USA
Profile of Home Alone
Home Alone can be described as exciting and humorous. The plot revolves around what happens when the parents are away, a child in danger, and mischievous children. Its comic aspect comes from slapstick humor and silly humor. Home Alone's main genres are comedy and family. In terms of style, it has a Hollywood tone. In approach, it is not serious and realistic. Home Alone is fast paced. It is set, at least in part, indoors and in the suburbs. It is located in Chicago. Home Alone takes place in the 1980s. The movie has received attention for being a modern classic, a blockbuster, and an award winner. It is well suited for kids and a family outing.
Summary of Home Alone
Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. Ultimately, Kevin learns the importance of family during the holidays in a touching reunion with his clan that is highlighted by the film's amazing original score, which was nominated for an Academy Award.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 16 November 1990 |
| Runtime: | 103 min |
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as Kevin McCallister
as Harry
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Critics Reviews
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Even though Macaulay Culkin's alternately muggy and inexpressive lead performance hasn't worn well, the supporting turns by Catherine O'Hara and John Candy are especially crackerjack, as is John Williams' buoyantly cartoony score.
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- by: Noel Murray
TV Guide
The first half of Home Alone features the sugar-coated sentimentality that can usually be found in a Hughes film, while the second half is full of unanticipated sadism.
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- by: Staff (Not Credited)
Users Reviews
and brings up good '90 memories (:
- 27.October.2008
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- by: Noa
- Noa rated this movie
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great to watch together. the little boy that his family left him alone,and his fight to keep two thieves from breaking to the house
- 31.August.2008
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- by: nevgauker
- nevgauker rated this movie0/10
