I love how the film has grown into this meme of equating little Kevin to Rambo setting traps and picking off the bad guys one-by-one. For some, the nostalgia of sitting in the theater watching a small kid take down grownups with a variety of diabolical traps is well worth revisiting. From the moment Harry and Marv first attempt to enter the house and plunder the riches, they'll be subjected to a painful fiery hell at the hands of a tiny psychopath where they'll be lucky to survive until Christmas morning.Īs I wrote for the Ultimate Collector's Edition set in 2015, there's not a whole lot to say about this movie that hasn't already been said. Harry and Marv soon learn why Kate (Catherine O'Hara) and her husband Peter (John Heard) "accidentally" left their demon child Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) home while they skipped off to Paris. They thought they had it made until they targeted the wrong home - the McCallister's. At the end of their ropes, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) have turned to burglarize the rich homes of a Chicago suburb while families are away on their Christmas holiday vacations to get by. ![]() ![]() Two working-class guys are just trying to earn a little extra scratch for the holidays.
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