One of the best Christmas movies of all time

Rating: 10/10 (18 November 2013)

Home Alone is a fun family comedy starring Macauley Culkin as young Kevin, who accidentally gets left behind, when his family and extended family leave on a hasty departure for Paris for the Christmas season. Before this happens, he and his mom (Catherine O'Hara), have an argument and she is terrified when she finds out her little boy has been left behind while in mid-flight.
Home Alone is a little boys journey of being alone at home, learning how to survive in the big world and having to fight off a couple of house robbers (the Wet Bandits). Culkin is brilliant in Home Alone. He sets booby traps, such as shaded mannequins he makes dance on strings behind the picture window curtains to fool the robbers into thinking there is someone home, and continues to set booby traps until "Old Man" his next door neighbour, who he initially was very scared of, intervenes.
Home Alone led to four more sequels and three video games. Culkin won several awards including Best Young Actor Starring in a Motion Picture, the American Comedy Award and Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) in 1991. Cast includes Culkin (Kevin), O'Hara (Kevin's mom Kate), John Heard as Kevin's father Peter, Joe Pesci as Harry and Daniel Stearn as Marv. Pesci and Stern were the Wet Bandits. Home Alone is pretty much one of the best Christmas movies out there.