Home Alone (Blu-ray) Blu-Ray DVD

A Family Comedy Without the Family.

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly. Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!

Editor's Note

Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. Ultimately, Kevin learns the importance of family during the holidays in a touching reunion with his clan that is highlighted by the film's amazing original score, which was nominated for an Academy Award.

Features

Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Foxvideo
	Release Date: 10/9/2012
	Running Time: 103 minutes
	Original Release Date: 1990
	Catalog ID: 2256252
	UPC: 00024543562528
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
	Available Subtitles: English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin
	Video: Color
Aspect Ratio

Cast & Crew

	Kristin Minter
	Joe Pesci
	Daniel Stern
	Catherine O'Hara
	John Heard
	Macaulay Culkin
	Raja Gosnell - Editor
	John Hughes - Producer
	Julio Macat - Director of Photography
	John Hughes - Screenwriter
	John Muto - Production Designer
	John Williams - Composer
	Chris Columbus - Director

Plot Summary

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister is accidentally left home alone by his family while they fly off to France for Christmas vacation. Kevin loves his freedom, delightedly gorging himself on sweets and staying up late -- until he is forced to defend his home from a team of burglers. But Kevin learns that self-defense can be fun too, as he goes about flying to defeat the bumbling thieves.

Professional Reviews

USA Today
"...Macaulay Culkin is the star atop this comedy tree..." 11/16/1990 p.4D

New York Times
"...Played with great glee by Macaulay Culkin....Endearing, up-to-the-minute..." 11/16/1990 p.C12

Entertainment Weekly
"...A live-action cartoon....[Culkin sets] the movie's overall tone..." -- Rating: B 12/16/1994 pp.80-1

Los Angeles Times
"...The ways in which its characters collide and carom off the walls are strictly funny-pages stuff....Macauley Culkin has the kind of crack comic timing that's missing in many an adult star..." 11/16/1990 p.F6

Premiere
"[I]t's not just the cartoonish slapstick that made ALONE one of the most successful comedies of all time: It's the sweet heart and courageous tenacity of the kid himself." 04/01/2004 p.54

Total Film
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] slapstick kiddie fantasy about an abandoned boy and some bumbling burglars." 02/01/2007 p.128