Chris Columbus' 1990 comedy film "Home Alone" owes a great deal of its massive success to its brazen, little-kid wish-fulfillment premise. The young Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) lives in a large, expensive home with a retinue of siblings so large that he rarely seems to be acknowledged. Thanks to the chaotic bustle of a large-scale family trip, paired with a brief nighttime power-out, Kevin oversleeps and his entire family makes it onto a plane to Paris without him. Kevin is initially frightened that he is home alone but soon learns to take advantage of the situation, eating junk food and watching rubbish on TV to his heart's content. One can assume most children had similar fantasies, and families flocked to theaters in droves. Even not accounting for inflation, "Home Alone" made 476 million worldwide.
Families came for Kevin's rule-breaking but stayed for his capacity for mayhem. The 9-year-old noticed that a pair...
Families came for Kevin's rule-breaking but stayed for his capacity for mayhem. The 9-year-old noticed that a pair...
- 11/30/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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