Home Alone Movie Review 1990

Eight-year-old Kevin is accidentally left behind when his entire (and large) family makes a frantic rush for the airport. That's the plausible part. Alone and besieged by burglars, Culkin turns into a pint-sized Rambo defending his suburban castle with the wile and resources of a boy genius with perfect timing and unlimited wherewithal. That's the implausible part. Pesci and Stern, the targets of Macauley's wrath, enact painful slapstick with considerable vigor, while Candy has a small but funny part as the leader of a polka band traveling cross-country with mom O'Hara. The highest-grossing picture of 1990, surpassing "Ghost" and "Jaws."

Distribution

Reader's Digest Home Video, Reader's Digest Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570, Phone: (914)234-9000, Toll-free: 800-304-2807, URL: http://www.readersdigest.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 105 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Slapstick Comedy, Christmas, Home Alone, Top Grossing Films of 1990, Highest Grossing Films of All Time, Chicago, Disorganized Crime, Childhood Visions, Burglars, Strained Suburbia, Vacations, Family Ties

Screenplay

John Hughes

Cast

Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, John Candy, Billie Bird, Angela Goethals, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin

Cinematography

Julio Macat

Director

Chris Columbus

Music

John Williams

Other

Raja Gosnell, Dan Webster

Producer

John Hughes, Mark Levinson, 20th Century-Fox