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For the video game based on this film, see Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (video game).
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone, and the second film in the Home Alone series. Home Alone 2 was written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Dana Ivey, and Brenda Fricker co-star. The film was rated PG for comic action and mild language Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks and Donald Trump make cameo appearances. The movie was filmed in Winnetka, Illinois, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was star Culkin's hometown at the time). Also, the film became the second most successful film of 1992, earning over $173 million in revenue in the United States and over $358 million worldwide. Home Alone 3 followed in 1997, and Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House followed in 2002—both without Macaulay Culkin in the lead roles.
[edit] PlotMacaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, who is once again separated from his family during one of their Christmas travels. This time, the family is going to Miami, Florida for Christmas, one year after the events of the first movie. The film begins as the family prepares by packing their things the night before and Kevin is getting dressed for his school choir concert while telling his mother Kate (Catherine O'Hara) that it's weird going to Florida for Christmas because there aren't any Christmas trees. However, the concert does not go well. During Kevin's solo, his older brother, Buzz, plays a prank (which Uncle Frank finds hilarious) by placing two candle flashlights behind Kevin's ears to make them look like they are glowing, making the audience laugh; Kevin responds by pushing him down, which knocks down the entire choir group and knocks the cardboard Christmas tree onto the piano, causing the lady playing it to make her fall. Furious, Kate screams "KEVIN!" and the curtains close. At home, Buzz apologizes to his family for his, as he puts it, "immature and ill-timed" prank. However, he then calls Kevin a trout sniffer while no one is looking, which leads Kevin to snap. He calls Uncle Frank a cheapskate and retreats upstairs to the third floor in his attic bedroom; refusing to apologize to Buzz and to the rest of the family and reiterating his disgust with the family's decision to travel to Miami for Christmas as well as seeing no Christmas trees there. When Kate reminds him of what happened last time, he responds by telling her that if he had his own money he'd go on his own vacation, by himself, and that he'd have the best time of his life. Kate then tells him that he got his wish last time and maybe he'll get it again this time, to which Kevin replies "I hope so!". When airport buses come, the McCallisters find that they are late again (as Peter unplugged the alarm clock and forgot to reset it when he plugged it back in), and make the mad dash getting ready, as in the first film. Kevin makes it to O'Hare International Airport, but loses sight of his family while trying to get batteries for his Talkboy out of his father Peter (John Heard)'s bag. Seeing a man that is wearing the same coat as his father, he follows him toward a flight to LaGuardia Airport in New York City and doesn't realize where he is until the plane lands. While in New York, he decides to make the most of, as he puts it, "the greatest accident of my life". Along the way Kevin meets several people, including a lady (played by Brenda Fricker) who enjoys caring for pigeons, but creeps Kevin out at first. While Kevin did not make it to Miami, his luggage did. Peter pulls Kevin's bag off the carousel and passes it down the line to his cousin, Fuller, who realizes that Kevin did not embark on the flight to Miami. The bag is then passed back down the line to Kate, who doesn't immediately realize that Kevin isn't there but faints upon doing so. The Miami Airport security staff decides to call O'Hare in hopes that Kevin is still in the airport. After they find out he isn't, everyone starts to wonder where he could be. After being asked to see a recent photo of their son, Peter realizes that he doesn't have his wallet on him. Peter realizes that because his wallet was in his bag and Kevin took it as they were going into the airport, Kevin now has the wallet. Since Peter's wallet has credit cards in it, security informs him that Kevin can be tracked when and if he uses one of the cards. Meanwhile, Harry and Marv (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern), the "Wet Bandits" from the first film, arrive in New York via a fish truck, having escaped from prison in Chicago during a riot, and immediately begin seeking a new target to regain their fortune. Marv also comes up with a new nickname for the duo, the "Sticky Bandits," based on his new ability to steal things by covering one of his hands with double-sided masking tape (which he coined after managing to swipe 14 cents from a Santa Claus on the street). In New York, Kevin decides he needs a place to stay. He goes to the Plaza Hotel (after hearing about it on a TV game show the night before), using Peter's credit card to check in. The concierge, Mr. Hector (Tim Curry), is suspicious of him the entire time he sees him there, going as far as sneaking into his room and prove Kevin a fraud. This attempt ends in failure as he is caught by Kevin using an inflatable clown to impersonate Frank McCallister singing in the shower (which Kevin had recorded earlier on his Talkboy). The next morning he apologizes for what he did. That day, Kevin decides to hire a limousine to take him around town and makes a visit at Duncan's Toy Chest, a huge toy store in New York City's Times Square. Duncan is a benevolent philanthropist who tells Kevin about his intentions to donate his Christmas profits to the Children's Hospital. He even allows Kevin to take a gift off the store's Christmas tree just for donating, and suggests a pair of turtledoves, which Kevin gladly accepts. Meanwhile, back at The Plaza, Mr. Hector has his suspicions confirmed--that Kevin has (technically) used a stolen credit card to check in and is a fraud, just as he suspected. Kevin's plan, however, begins to fall apart after he leaves. First, he runs into Harry and Marv on the street outside the store. Harry recognizes Kevin, and a chase subsequently follows, but Kevin thwarts them by making them slip on necklace beads. Kevin gets back to the Plaza Hotel to find Mr. Hector waiting for him and tries to get him to help with Harry and Marv, but Mr. Hector informs Kevin of his discovery about Peter's credit card and begins chasing him through the hotel with several employees and security staff in tow. Kevin is able to escape by employing a trick he used in the first film, playing a gangster movie at full volume to trick the staff into believing that someone is being shot in the room (this time, Angels with Even Filthier Souls, a false sequel to Angels with Filthy Souls in the first movie). Kevin uses the service staircase to escape the hotel, but as soon as he gets out he is intercepted by Marv and Harry in an alley. Marv rips up Kevin's plane ticket to Miami and begins telling Kevin that he and Harry are planning to rob Duncan's Toy Chest, unaware that Kevin is recording the conversation. He is able to escape into Central Park and gets free while riding in the back of a hansom cab. Down in Miami, where the family is staying at a motel that forces them to share one room, Kate takes a phone call from airport security that Kevin has been located in New York. The rest of the family also learn what Kevin has done with Peter's credit card, but is on the run from the police. The McCallisters decide to leave at that moment and head to New York as soon as possible to find Kevin and clear his name. Kevin, meanwhile, finds his Uncle Rob's penthouse, but it's being renovated. He then begins walking through Central Park at night, coming across several homeless people and two prostitutes along the way (as well as a taxicab driver who doesn't think it's any safer in the cab). Scared out of his mind, he then confronts the pigeon lady again, but gets his foot stuck between two rocks when he tries to run away. After she frees him, he apologizes for running and the two go to Carnegie Hall to watch an orchestra play Christmas music from a loft. Kevin learns that the pigeon lady's life has fallen apart because of a lack of trust in people and a lack of friends, and promises to be her friend if she needs one. The pigeon lady, although flattered, tells Kevin not to make promises he can't keep. While on his way he stops at the Children's Hospital and waves to a child watching him from the window. While there he remembers what Mr. Duncan told him earlier, then remembers that Marv had told him about robbing Duncan's Toy Chest earlier that day. Kevin is filled with determination to do a good deed, and he dashes to Uncle Rob's house to begin what he calls "Operation Ho-Ho-Ho," which, while along the same lines as the plan from the first film, feature much more violent booby traps. Once the McCallisters arrive in New York, Peter and Kate confront the staff at the Plaza for letting Kevin get away. The staff offers the McCallisters a complimentary suite as a token of their apology, and Peter decides to go down to the police station to see what they are doing to find Kevin. Kate, however, insists on roaming the streets herself to look for Kevin against the advice of both Peter and the staff; as she does so, the rest of the family and their luggage are taken up to the suite. When Kevin is done booby-trapping the house, he walks over to the store with a wooden plank and a bucket just in time to see Harry and Marv start stealing cash from the store. He takes two pictures of Harry and Marv's crime and then throws a rock with a note he wrote to Mr. Duncan through the window, which triggers the alarm. Kevin uses the plank and bucket to make a makeshift seesaw in front of the store. Harry hits it first and realizes what is about to happen, but before he can warn Marv not to step on the other side Marv does exactly that and sends Harry flying through the air and crashing through the roof of a parked car. The robbers then chase Kevin back to the penthouse where Harry tries to make a deal with Kevin to give him the camera. Kevin responds by throwing several bricks off the roof of the penthouse at Harry, but every brick he throws hits Marv instead as Harry ducks out of the way. Eventually both of the Sticky Bandits reach Kevin in the house, but not before dealing with several of the booby traps along the way (which include another meeting between Harry and a blowtorch-which ends with him dipping his head into a toilet full of paint thinner and nearly causing the house to explode, as the explosion itself could be seen from outside the house--and Marv falling through a hole in the floor and being electrocuted with an arc welder). Shortly after Harry and Marv reach each other in the house, they go through a set of three traps together. They find Kevin at the top of a set of stairs. Remembering what happened the last time, where they were bombed with paint cans, both of them fake running up the stairs as the paint cans come flying. After eluding both, they head up, only to find a heavy swinging pipe coming at them. They're both hit and fall through the giant hole in the floor, and for good measure Kevin cuts the rope holding the pipe and sends it bouncing down the stairs and through the hole, nearly crushing them. The second involves a piece of string, a doorknob, and a heavy tool chest. Kevin ties the tool chest to the doorknob with the string, and when Harry pulls the doorknob, he doesn't know he pulled the string; nonetheless, the tool chest begins bouncing down the stairs, forcefully taking the door off its hinges and rolling the pair into the wall behind them. The third and final trap Kevin sets involves a kerosene soaked rope that he sets on fire as Harry and Marv climb down it, which forces them to let go of the rope and fall down sending a few dozen cans of varnish into the air as they land, which then comes down and submerges them. Kevin escapes into the park and calls 9-1-1, but just as he is about to continue running he slips and falls on a patch of ice, which allows Harry and Marv to catch up with him. The burglars confiscate the tape and photos, and Harry pulls out a pistol. While threatening to shoot Kevin, the pigeon lady returns. Harry's attention turns to her, allowing Kevin to escape; and he tries to shoot her, but because his pistol is covered in varnish, he's unable to pull the trigger. The pigeon lady then throws her bucket of birdseed on Harry and Marv, turning the two into giant bird feeders as the seed sticks to the varnish, and the pigeons attack them. Kevin then sets off some fireworks, which he bought earlier, to signal the police. They arrive, and as the thieves are arrested, the police come across Kevin's photos and tape, further incriminating the Sticky Bandits. Furthermore, the cash they stole is recovered and the employees of Duncan's Toy Chest are notified. Mr. Duncan then receives Kevin's note and is relieved that Kevin had done what he had to do. Meanwhile, Kate is frantically searching New York City for Kevin. She stumbles across two police officers in Times Square, and while talking to them she states that Kevin deserved to be at home, with his family, around a Christmas tree. Suddenly remembering what Kevin had said earlier about Christmas trees, Kate deduces that Kevin must be at Rockefeller Center, and asks the policemen to take her there. Her intuition proves correct, as Kevin is standing near the center's Christmas tree, wanting to at least see his mother so he can apologize to her. The two embrace and apologize to each other, then head back to the hotel. The next morning, Christmas Day, Mr. Duncan sends a whole truckload of presents to Kevin and his family at the Plaza Hotel as a reward for Kevin's role in the apprehension of Harry and Marv. His older brother Buzz suggests that had it not been for Kevin getting on the wrong plane, they would not be in the suite with the Christmas tree and gifts in the first place, and thinks it's only fair that Kevin get to open up the first present. While everyone else is opening their presents, Kevin notices that his turtledoves are on the room's Christmas tree and decides to head across the street to the park. He finds the pigeon lady feeding her pigeons and gives her one of the turtledoves, which serves as an affirmation of his promise from earlier. The pigeon lady is grateful for the gift and shares a hug with Kevin. While all of this is going on, Kevin's room service bill from his first stay at The Plaza, totaling $967.43, is delivered to the McCallisters' room. Buzz receives it and passes it along to Peter, who screams at Kevin from the hotel, "Kevin! You spent $967 dollars on room service?!" The film ends with Kevin running back to the hotel. [edit] Cast
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[edit] Score albumIn addition, a CD with excerpts from the score by John Williams was issued in 1992[1]. The track listing is as followed: 1. Somewhere In My Memory 3:49 2. Home Alone 2:01 3. We Overslept Again 2:46 4. Christmas Star 3:18 5. Arrival In New York 1:41 6. Plaza Hotel And Duncan's Toy Store 3:45 7. Concierge And Race To The Room 2:04 8. Star Of Bethlehem 3:28 9. The Thieves Return 4:35 10. Appearance Of Pigeon Lady 3:19 11. Christmas At Carnegie Hall (O Come All Ye Faithful / O Little Town Of Bethlehem / Silent Night) (5:02) 12. Into The Park (3:49) 13. Haunted Brownstone (3:01) 14. Christmas Star And Preparing The Trap (4:17) 15. To The Plaza Presto (3:22) 16. Reunion At Rockefeller Center (2:36) 17. Kevin's Booby Traps (3:41) 18. Finale (3:55) 19. Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas (2:51) [edit] Special Edition AlbumOn the film's tenth anniversary, Varese Sarabande released a two-disc special edition soundtrack, containing the previously noted cues along with additional compositions that were left out from the final film.[2] The complete track listing is as follows:[2] Disc One
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[edit] Box officeThe movie opened to $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, averaging $14,008 per site.[3] While it started off better than the original, the final box office gross was much less.[4] $173,585,516 was taken in domestically and $185,406,165 overseas. The film leaves with a total of $358,991,681 worldwide. [edit] ReactionThe movie was generally poorly received by critics. Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times commented that the film's gags were overly cartoonish and too sadistic. He also stated that "Cartoon violence only works well in cartoons, which makes it funny only in cartoons. Most of the live-action attempts to duplicate animation have failed, because when flesh-and-blood figures hit the pavement, we can almost hear the bones crunch, and it isn't funny." Another critic called the film "Money grubbing sequilitis at its most pathetic." One critic went so far as to say that Kevin was the true villain of the film, and that Harry and Marv were the victims. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an 17% "Rotten" rating with Critics, and a 62% rating with Users. [edit] Tie-ins
As with the first Home Alone movie, video games based on the sequel were released by THQ for such systems as the Sega Genesis, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and personal computers, mostly in late 1992. A separate hand-held game was released by Tiger Electronics. The Talkboy handheld tape recorder that Kevin used in the film was actually a non-working prop. A huge letter-writing campaign by young fans of the film led Tiger Electronics to produce a fully functional retail version of the recorder in 1993, when the film was first released on home video. As they had in the first film, American Airlines also had very prominent product-placement in Home Alone 2, with Kevin and his family completing their respective plane trips on AA flights. [edit] Angels with Even Filthier Souls
Angels with Even Filthier Souls is a sort of "sequel" to the clip used in the first film, Angels with Filthy Souls, and both pay homage to the 1938 film Angels with Dirty Faces. [edit] PlotJohnny's girlfriend, Susie, enters his room. He tells her he knows it was her because he can smell her getting off the elevator. She said it's his favorite perfume, Gardenias. He asked her if she was in his room the previous night. She told him she was singing at the Blue Monkey. He accuses her of cheating on him (or "smooching") with several people, including his brother, which she denies, claiming she loves him. Johnny then takes out his Tommy Gun and told Susie to get down on her knees and told Johnny that she loves him. Johnny claimed that he believes her, but his tommy gun doesn't, and tells Susie to get out before he counts to three, but he when he reaches two, he guns her down where she stands. The clip ends with him saying, "Three! Merry Christmas, you filthy animal!" and "And a Happy New Year!" over the sound of several gunshots. [edit] Use in pranking the staff of the Plaza HotelKevin uses the clip to trick the Plaza Hotel staff when they attempt to confront him about his stolen credit card, fooling the staff into thinking there's a real adult in the room. When Johnny starts accusing his girlfriend of cheating on him, the hotel staff think that he is accusing Mr. Hector (Tim Curry); Cliff the security guard is taken aback at having his name mentioned and says that it is a lie. Mr. Hector informs him that he's apparently mistaken, and that they are looking for a young man. He believes him but then takes out his Tommy Gun. Eventually the entire staff gets down on their knees to tell "him" that they "love him." When Johnny starts shooting at Susie, the staff believes they are real bullets and evacuate the hotel room. Other guests hear the "gunfire" as well and peek out of their rooms with cautious curiosity. When Johnny finishes shooting, Kevin lip syncs his lines: "Merry Christmas, you filthy animal!" and, "And a Happy New Year!" as he heads down the staircase. The hotel staff then crawl their way to the elevators, while Mr. Hector informs the guests to stay in their rooms, claiming "This is an emergency! There's an insane guest with a gun!" [edit] Characters
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