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Join us after the Grand Illumination for this classic Christmas caper!

When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O’Hara) 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 (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.

Image credit: Criterion

Did you know?

  • John Candy filmed his part in only one day, albeit a twenty-three-hour day. Almost all of his dialogue was improvised. His part was potentially partly inspired by the character he played in Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), also written and produced by John Hughes.
  • The boy who played Kevin’s cousin Fuller is Macaulay Culkin’s brother Kieran Culkin in his feature film debut.
  • When Kate is on the phone at the beginning of the movie, she can be heard saying that the family put their dog in the kennel for their vacation, explaining why their house has a doggy door (though the dog is never shown and isn’t mentioned in the sequel).

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