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Home Alone 3

1997, Kids & family/Comedy, 1h 42m

25 Reviews 250,000+ Ratings

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Macaulay Culkin's precocious charisma is sorely missed in this hollow sequel, which doubles down on the broad comedy while lacking all the hallmarks that made the original a classic. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

When an inept group of criminals tries to get a stolen top-secret computer chip through airport security, it ends up in a toy car in the luggage of the elderly Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes). Unable to promptly retrieve the chip, the felons follow Hess and the car to her neighborhood. After she gives the toy to young Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz), who is home sick from school, he becomes the target of the criminals. However, the precocious kid is on to their schemes and ready to fight the thieves off.

Rating:

PG
Genre:

Kids & family, Comedy
Original Language:

English
Director:

Raja Gosnell
Producer:

Hilton A. Green, John Hughes
Writer:

John Hughes
Release Date (Theaters):

Dec 12, 1997 original
Release Date (Streaming):

Oct 16, 2007
Box Office (Gross USA):

$30.7M
Runtime:

1h 42m
Distributor:

20th Century Fox
Sound Mix:

Surround, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio:

35mm

Cast & Crew

Alex D. Linz
Alex Pruitt

Olek Krupa
Peter Beaupre

Rya Kihlstedt
Alice Ribbons

Lenny von Dohlen

Lenny von Dohlen
Jernigan

David Thornton
Earl Unger

Haviland Morris

Haviland Morris
Karen Pruitt

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Critic Reviews for Home Alone 3

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Full Review… Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY)

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Full Review… Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)

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Audience Reviews for Home Alone 3

Dec 23, 2015

RIP - Funniness from the first movie. May it rest in peace.

EpicLadySponge t Super Reviewer
Apr 29, 2012

Stupid, poorly acted, and poorly written, Home Alone 3 has got to be the worst installment in the series. Sure it was better than the 4th one, but that doesn't say much. It had it's funny moments here and there, so that's why I give it 1 1/2 stars. It makes me feel said how John Hughes would write a movie like this one. I hated every minute of it. More like a spinoff if you ask me. Looks like hollywood really did sold him out during this time. Roger Ebert was wrong about this one saying, "it's better than the first two." To me, it just sounded rediculous. The first two will always be better than this nonsense.

Giovanni C Super Reviewer
Jan 07, 2012

Gosh, this is real bad, only watched it because of Lenny Von Dohlen. The choice of songs were bad, acting was bad, plot was bad, script was bad, camera work was bad, trap design was bad, actors looked bad. nothing good came out of this film, a pure time waster.

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Dec 22, 2011

Home Alone 3 steers clear of the mistakes of the previous films, and makes all new ones. Whereas 2 went too dark and violent, 3 goes too cartoonish and slapstick. Where the first film thought small, with just a pair of common burglars, 3 goes big, with a team of international terrorists. Still, the film's beginning shows some cleverness in setting up a new, original home alone situation, but it quickly devolves into garbage. The main problem with Home Alone 3 is that it's so pacified that it doesn't have the darkness or edginess needed to believe that these are real characters, or that this situation is dangerous.

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