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Home Alone

  • Rated PG
  • 1hr 43m
  •  (14)
  • 63

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  • Official Trailer: 25th Anniversary Edition
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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Chris Columbus

Producer:

Tarquin Gotch, Mark Levinson, Scott M. Rosenfelt

Writer:

John Hughes

Release Date:

Nov 16, 1990

Runtime:

1hr 43m

Synopsis

An eight-year-old trouble-maker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Cast

  • Macaulay Culkin
  • Joe Pesci
  • Daniel Stern
  • Catherine O'Hara
  • John Heard
  • Roberts Blossom
  • John Candy
  • Angela Goethals
  • Devin Ratray
  • Gerry Bamman

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Metacritic

63
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Based on 9 Critics
8.2

USER SCORE (600)

Universal acclaim based on 600 Reviews
67

Home Alone is the apex, the pinnacle, the culmination of every bad bit Hughes has ever written or directed. It overflows with primitive, disastrously unfunny sight gags and neo-hateful familial humor.

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Metacritic review by Marc Savlov
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
63

All plausibility is gone, we sit back, detached, to watch stunt men and special effects guys take over a movie that promised to be the kind of story audiences could identify with.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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