Only in the 90s

Rating: 8/10 (2 October 2018)

I guess back in 1990, if you left your eight year old son home alone for almost a week, children services wouldn't get involved. My, how times have changed. Now, you leave your kid alone for five minutes and children services and the media grill you on the five o'clock news! However, Home Alone had a good premise I suppose; a boy defending his home against burglars over Christmas break.
What could possibly go wrong? Almost everything that could possibly happen, that's what! MacCaulay Culkin plays Kevin McAllister, who gets left home alone. That's when the antics start. Chris Columbus did a great job directing the film from a story by John Hughes.
Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern costar as the bad guys who call themselves the 'wet bandits'; a duo who bumble and burglarize. In the end though, good wins out over evil. And Kevin is reuinted with his family.