Home Alone

Macaulay Culkin: Kevin McCallister
Joe Pesci: Harry Lime
Daniel Stern: Marvin " Marv " Merchants
John Heard: Peter McCallister
Roberts Blossom: Old Man Marley
Catherine O'Hara: Kate McCallister
Angela Goethals: Linnie McCallister
Devin Ratray: Buzz McCallister
Gerry Bamman: Uncle Frank McCallister
Terrie Snell: Aunt Leslie McCallister
Hillary Wolf: Megan McCallister
Larry Hankin: Sergeant Larry Balzak
John Candy: Gus Polinski
Senta Moses: Tracy McCallister
Daiana Campeanu: Sondra McCallister
Michael C. Maronna: Jeff McCallister

Kevin - Home Alone (Original Title: Home Alone ) is a comedy from John Hughes in 1990, in the Chris Columbus directed. The film is about an 8- year-old boy named Kevin, who lives with his parents and four siblings in a suburb of Chicago, is to forget Christmas at home and defended the parental home against two burglars. The film is considered together with his successor Kevin - Alone in New York in 1992 as the biggest success of lead actor Macaulay Culkin, who to this since then was not able.

Action

On the day before leaving for the Christmas holiday to Paris there is a dispute between the eight -year-old Kevin McCallister and his brother Buzz. Kevin, who feels wronged by his family, at dinner caused a huge chaos and become a punishment for sleeping sent to the attic. Furious, he expresses his mother against the desire to never see his family again.

During the night a violent storm rages. A umstürzender tree damaged the power line to the house, so that the application for the departure alarm clock does not work and slept through the McCallisters. In the hustle and bustle of adventitious neighbor boy Mitch Murphy is accidentally counted, and the supposedly full complement of family rushes to the airport. It was only during the flight noticed Kevin's mother his absence. Meanwhile, alone at home watching this on and notes that his family " disappeared ". First, the joy is great, because he remembers the harassment by his siblings.

No sooner landed in France is Kevin's mother all the stops to immediately get back home to her son. In the meantime, should a police officer to check on him, but Kevin is hiding at this time just in the house, because he because of fears about these circulating rumors in front of his neighbors Marley. As the next day he finally ventured out and even goes shopping, he realizes on the way home the seated in a van crook Harry again, who before leaving his family even as a police officer dressed up the day for appearance after the welfare of the neighborhood informed during the holidays. As a result, Kevin can finally several times to prevent the two gangsters Marv and Harry go into his house until they finally find out that they were " ripped off by a kindergarten child " were. The two then talk about how to proceed in earshot from Kevin: You have before, so break on Christmas Eve nine clock in the house.

More and more Kevin wishes his family now but back again; but at the same time he makes the decision to defend his home against the bad guys. When they want to gain access to the house at the agreed time, Kevin is finally prepared: With the help of numerous traps he can offer the burglars Paroli. These have then more and more the desire to get back at the little Kevin, and discard their original plan to try to rob the house. Instead they follow Kevin continues through the house and fall into a trap to the other. Meanwhile, Kevin agreed the police - but he calls a neighbor's house as the scene of the burglary because he wants to lure the two crooks at the end there. This follow him also, but they do not torture yourself through the basement but catch him off in the apartment where the tide seems to have turned.

Then suddenly enters the "old Marley ," which Kevin has previously made known in the nearby church, the house and sets both scoundrels with his snow shovel out of action. The police arrives and arrests the "wet bandits " Marv and Harry. The next morning, finally hits first Kevin's mother at home, which has a true odyssey, and a little later the rest of the family, which just took the next available flight. The family members get none of it to hear what had happened in their absence in the house. On the question of what Kevin did for the whole time, he replies tersely that he had " just bored ".

Music

For the soundtrack to the film, the American composer John Williams is responsible. Besides the well known main theme called Somewhere in my memory, which occurs at the beginning and during the film in fragments, the score is mainly characterized by a variety of different Christmas carols. The soundtrack was nominated for an Oscar in 1991.

Locations

The locations for the film were, inter alia, the city Winnetka, Illinois, the Chicago Airport and Paris-Orly Airport.

The film played at a cost of 15 million U.S. dollars worldwide about 476.7 million U.S. dollars and is since 2009 as the most successful comedy film of all time.

Running gags and Trivia

A running gag in the film is the statue in front of the entrance of the house, which is rammed and overturned several parked cars.
Both Kevin - Home Alone and in the continuation Kevin - In New York alone to see the rest of the family in their vacation home Is not life beautiful? in on television, which runs in Paris in French and in the second part in Miami in Spanish.
Both parts end with someone yelling at Kevin because he has done something wrong. In the first part of Buzz's room is trashed, in the second he has spent $ 967 for room service.
The black -and-white movies that Kevin looks at in two parts, called Angels with Filthy Souls and in the sequel Angels with even filthier Souls. This footage was filmed specifically for use as a film within a film and to be a reference to the movie Angels with Dirty Faces in 1938.
The embodied by Joe Pesci character named Harry Lime is an allusion to The Third Man (1949 ), in which an important figure bears this name.
Jeffrey Wiseman, who plays the role of the boy next door, with Kevin is confused in the count, spoke of the role of Kevin before.
The DVD cover shows Culkin screaming with his hands on his face. An allusion to the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch.
Robert De Niro turned down the role of Harry.
The Litte Nero is an allusion to the Little Caesar's Pizza chain.
Daniel Stern agreed to let this put in the face for a take exactly the tarantula.
Several family members of director Chris Columbus have brief appearances in the film: his daughter, his mother, his wife and his father.

Synchronization

Reviews

" An eventful comedy with a number of loans from the cartoon slapstick; Pace and wit make, however, until the end of one, before the inevitable family reconciliation. "

"Whether Kevin's defense methods are pedagogically justifiable is debatable, but the young hero makes his fantastic ideas for delicious entertainment. "

Awards

Kevin - Home Alone was awarded in 1991 Academy Award nominations for John Williams (music) and for the song " Somewhere In My Memory ". In the same year the film for the Golden Globe in the category Best Actor ( Macaulay Culkin ) and Best Picture nominee. Macaulay Culkin was awarded the Young Artist Award.

Continuations

So far, followed by four sequels. In part two again took over the director Chris Columbus, Raja Gosnell directed part three. Kevin - Alone against all been produced directly for the U.S. television, Rod Daniel directed the film. While in part three of the character Kevin is not mentioned, this is in part four again the main character. The fifth film was directed by Peter Hewitt directly for television. Here the character of Kevin does not matter again. The film Career Opportunities 1991 awakened by its German title Kevin's cousin in the supermarket to be the impression that part of the series alone. In fact, we find in it no reference to Kevin - Home Alone.

Imitations

2008: Hari Puttar - A Comedy Of Terrors

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