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Home Alone (1990)

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Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 3

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Average Rating: 3.3/5
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Home Alone is the highly successful and beloved family comedy about a young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) who is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes they've left him "home alone," he learns to fend for himself and, eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin's suburban Chicago neighborhood. Though the film's slapstick

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Comedy, Kids & Family

John Hughes

Oct 5, 1999

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All Critics (41) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (20) | DVD (22)

The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment (1)
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Pic boasts wonderful casting, with Culkin a delight as funny, resilient Kevin, and O'Hara bringing a snappy, zesty energy to the role of mom.

July 6, 2010 Full Review Source: Variety
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[The movie has] an inconsistency of mood not helped by abrupt editing and Columbus' sometimes self-conscious direction.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out
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[A] surprisingly charming film, which may be the first Christmas black comedy for children.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times
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This holiday contender from John Hughes is too crass, too loud and too violent to be added blithely to Christmas viewing traditions. But it is funny.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post
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If Home Alone had limited itself to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten 8-year-old, I think I would have liked it more.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comments (11)
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A better director could have helped the film out considerably, even saved it... But even then, the script is tremendously weak, by Hughes's standards or anybody else's.

November 9, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comments (2)
Antagony & Ecstasy

Straw Dogs lite.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide
TV Guide's Movie Guide

This is engaging and frequently hilarious. But the joke is stretched a bit too far.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Film4
Film4

A hilarious comedy (although not a very believable one -- there can be no eight-year-olds this ingenious) that kids will love and adults won't mind sitting through either.

July 26, 2011 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine
Empire Magazine

A funny, but overrated family comedy

August 9, 2007 | Comments (3)
Cinema Crazed

There are few movies that can be described as never having a dull moment, and Home Alone fits in this small group. It's the perfect family holiday film.

January 25, 2007 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures
7M Pictures

Home has become a Christmas staple, and rightfully so; it's probably the last theatrical film set during the season to get the themes of family and kindness so right.

November 9, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDTalk.com
DVDTalk.com

watching this all again today with a critical eye reveals that Home Alone's prat-fall humor has gotten completely worn out

November 5, 2006 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment (1)
Filmcritic.com

This slapstick is vicious; a family film?

July 17, 2004

Everyone involved ought to be sent home alone -- with no supper.

January 21, 2004 | Comments (2)
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Home Alone

A very good slapstick family film backed up with good performances from the adult cast. Kulkin....not so much. I particularly enjoy the burglars enthusiasm in the film. By no means however one of the most brilliant christmas films out there. Over rated but christmas fun.
September 20, 2011
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If you want some good old fashion family violence...look no further. This is brutal man. Those guys took the beating of a lifetime....And it's funny as hell. Great storytelling....very funny buildup to how they find out he's home alone...and how he finds out they are coming to break in. This was a good year for Pesci. Nothing bas about GoodFellas. But this is what he should have got the Oscar for... (don't poop your pants....it's a joke)...He was really good though...
January 29, 2012
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    1. Marley: You can say hello when you see me. You don't have to be afraid.
    – Submitted by Joe N (49 days ago)
    1. Marv: The window?
    2. Harry: Yeah.
    3. Marv: I'm not going out the window.
    4. Harry: What are ya scared of Marv? Are you afraid?
    – Submitted by Joe N (49 days ago)
    1. Harry: Were did he go?
    2. Marv: Maybe he committed suicide.
    – Submitted by Connor N (4 months ago)
    1. Fuller: Kevin, your such a disease.
    – Submitted by Connor N (4 months ago)
    1. Buzz McCallister: I wouldn't let you sleep in my room, if you were growing, on my ass!
    – Submitted by Connor N (4 months ago)
    1. Kevin McCallister: This is it. Dont get scared now.
    – Submitted by Ronalds J (5 months ago)

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