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Home Alone
	; The 1st Home Alone movie poster. (Poster includes the Ontario Film Review Board classification)
Directed by	Chris Columbus (Home Alone 1&2); Raja Gosnell (Home Alone 3); Rod Daniel (Home Alone 4)
Produced by	John Hughes
Written by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin; Alex D. Linz; Mike Weinberg
Release date(s)	1990 - 2002
Running time	414 minutes (all 4 movies)
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$70,000,000 (1-3)
Gross revenue	$914,762,040 (1-3)

This article is about the film series. For the first film in the series, see Home Alone (film). For the video game based on the 1st film, see Home Alone (video game). For the video game released only in Europe, see Home Alone (2006 game).

Home Alone is a movie series that was based on the adventures of a boy named Kevin (with the exception of the third film which focuses on a child named Alex Pruitt). The term usually refers to the first film in the series, which at the time was the third highest grossing film yet, making a major star of lead actor Macaulay Culkin.

[edit] Home Alone

Main article: Home Alone (film)

After a fight with his older brother, Buzz, over pizza, Kevin McCallister (Culkin) gets sent to the attic bedroom, where he wishes that his family would simply disappear. An electrical line failure during the night resets all the alarm clocks, so the next morning the rest of the family, who have overslept, rush to leave to go on a Christmas vacation to Paris, France. During the confusion, Kevin is accidentally left at home and experiences what it is like to be independent for the first time. At the same time two intruders, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), plan to break into the (almost) vacant home. Kevin musters up a plan not only to stop the burglars but also to punish them through different boobytraps set around his house, which include flying paint cans, a BB gun, and a doorknob heated with an electric charcoal lighter.

The movie is set around Christmas 1990 and launched a series of sequels and a career for Culkin.

[edit] Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Main article: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Kevin McCallister and his family are taking another Christmas vacation, this time to Miami, Florida. During the chaos at the airport, Kevin gets separated from his family and accidentally gets on a plane to New York City. After enjoying himself there for a while, he runs into Harry and Marv from the original film, who have escaped from prison. Marv, the tall robber is essentially the "Lackey" and follows Harry's orders into their demise.

[edit] Home Alone 3

Main article: Home Alone 3

The film does not revolve around Kevin but centers on Alex Pruitt, a young boy who is home alone with the chickenpox. At this time, four burglars working for a North Korean terrorist group are sent by their boss to obtain a top-secret microchip that can act as a cloaking device for a missile. They succeed in retrieving the chip and hide it in a remote controlled car, but due to a luggage mix-up at the airport with the Pruitts' neighbor Mrs. Hess, the car lands in the hands of Alex who lives across the street from her. The four burglars, three men and one woman, know the car is on Alex's street. So they search every house on the street. But Alex uses the car to get a video of them. After that, they both prepare for a small battle, Alex prepares the house, and the burglars prepare to break into the house. The burglars fall for all the traps and Alex captures three of them. The fourth burglar nearly gets away, but Alex's brothers' parrot reveals him, by blowing up the igloo he is hiding in.

[edit] Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House

The fourth and final installment of the series, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, premiered as a television movie on ABC on November 3, 2002. Mike Weinberg takes over the role of Kevin McCallister and French Stewart replaces Stern as Marv Merchants. In the film Kevin's parents have divorced and he lives with his mom. He decides to go spend Christmas with his dad and his rich girlfriend, Natalie, but finds himself having to deal with his old nemesis Marv, and his new sidekick, Vera (played by Missi Pyle). Directed by Rod Daniel, it was shot in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.^[1] It was released to Region 1 DVD on October 20, 2003.

[edit] Reception

Film	Release date	Box office revenue			Box office ranking		Budget	Reference
Film	Release date	United States	Foreign	Worldwide	All time domestic	All time worldwide	Budget	Reference
Home Alone	November 16, 1990	$285,761,243	$190,923,432	$476,684,675	#38 #36^(A)	#78	$18,000,000	^[2]
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York	November 20, 1992	$173,585,516	$185,409,334	$358,994,850	#137 #138^(A)	#151	$20,000,000	^[3]^[4]
Home Alone 3	October 27, 1997	$30,882,515	$48,200,000	$79,082,515	#1,807		$32,000,000	^[5]
Total		$490,229,274	$424,532,766	$914,762,040			$70,000,000
List indicator(s) ^(A) indicates the adjusted totals based on current ticket prices (calculated by Box Office Mojo).

[edit] References

^ http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=522&art_id=ct20020902105658763F450588&set_id=1
^ "Home Alone (1990)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone.htm.
^ "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone2.htm.
^ "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Production Budget". The- Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1992/0HML2.php.
^ "Home Alone 3 (1997)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone3.htm.

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[1] "Home Alone (1990)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone.htm.

[2] "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone2.htm.

[3] "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Production Budget". The- Numbers. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1992/0HML2.php.

[4] "Home Alone 3 (1997)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=homealone3.htm.

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