Home Alone

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Home Alone

PG

1990

1h 42m

Kids & Family

Holiday

Comedy

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When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

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Critics Consensus

Home Alone's uneven but frequently funny premise, stretched unreasonably thin, is buoyed by Macaulay Culkin's cute performance and strong supporting stars.

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Catherine Dunphy

Toronto Star

Nov 30, 2023

This is going to be a big hit with the kids. Word will get out in the schoolyard that Home Alone is really funny. Just don’t let the kids near the iron after they’ve seen it.

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George Landau

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Nov 29, 2023

Home Alone isn't high art, but it's a swell gift to movie-going families.

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Lynden Barber

Sydney Morning Herald

Nov 29, 2023

Using split-second editing, playfully choreographed violence and exaggerated responses such as the bug-eyed double take, director Chris Columbus has created a live action comedy in the style of a Warner Bros cartoon.

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Alan French

Sunshine State Cineplex

Dec 15, 2025

8/10

Home Alone earns every laugh and with Hughes’ sweet screenplay, leaves enough heart to keep us coming back.

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Ellie Lucas

From the Front Row

Dec 14, 2023

This film truly captures something enduring about what it's like to be a kid, and it continues to speak to that child in all of us.

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Marylynn Uricchio

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Nov 30, 2023

B-

Without being the least bit schmaltzy or cloying, Home Alone manages to impart the holiday spirit. Its saving grace is an unexpected vein of irreverent humor that verges on the black.

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Robert P

@Superbad 1 day ago

Home Alone = a *4* star Movie

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TexasRose Y

@TEXASYellowRose Sep 2, 2026

I have watch this movie 2-3 time each year on Christmas season, sometimes more since it was released. It's 2026 September and I am watching 👀 it again. At 77, Still MY FAVORITE.

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Jasmine W

@jasniquejewels Aug 31, 2026

truly a christmas classic.

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Pat B

@RT67592582 Aug 28, 2026

How does this movie not get 100% from critics and the audience? I grew up on this movie, watching it even before I was Kevin McCallister's age. Of course it has flaws, but it is so much fun to watch incredible performers like Catherine O'Hara, John Candy, and Joe Pesci bring this thing to life. To have as serious an actor as Pesci wailing while his head is blowtorched is just the coup de maître. My favourite scene, though, is when the church bell strikes unexpectedly, prompting Kevin to run back to defend his home while Carol of the Bells takes it up a notch. Well-played from Culkin and Columbus.

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Musa A

@doodleflame Aug 14, 2026

The best movie of all time. LITERALLY.

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John M

@RT43922091 Aug 13, 2026

Best movie of all time. But how does it only have a 66 on rotten tomatoes. That’s all

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Synopsis

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

Director: Chris Columbus
Producer: John Hughes
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: 20th Century Fox, Hughes Entertainment
Rating: PG
Genre: Kids & Family, Holiday, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 16, 1990, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 1, 2013
Box Office (Gross USA): $281.5M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby, Surround

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