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Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Dec
17
Description:
After a fight with his older brother, Buzz, over pizza, Kevin McCallister (Culkin) gets sent to the attic bedroom, where he wishes that his family would simply disappear. An electrical line failure during the night resets all the alarm clocks, so the next morning the rest of the family, who have overslept, rush to leave to go on a Christmas vacation to Paris, France. During the confusion, Kevin is accidentally left at home and experiences what it is like to be independent for the first time. At the same time two intruders, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), plan to break into the (almost) vacant home. Kevin musters up a plan not only to stop the burglars but also to punish them through different boobytraps set around his house, which include flying paint cans, a BB gun, and a doorknob heated with an electric charcoal lighter.
Cast:Macaulay Culkin, Alex D. Linz, Mike Weinberg
Watch It Now – Home Alone
Dec
17
Description:
Kevin McCallister and his family are taking another Christmas vacation, this time to Miami, Florida. During the chaos at the airport, Kevin gets separated from his family and accidentally gets on a plane to New York City. After enjoying himself there for a while, he runs into Harry and Marv from the original film, who have escaped from prison. Marv, the tall robber is essentially the “Lackey” and follows Harry’s orders into their demise.
Cast:Macaulay Culkin, Alex D. Linz, Mike Weinberg
Watch It Now – Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Dec
17
Description:
The film does not revolve around Kevin but centers on Alex Pruitt, a young boy who is home alone with the chickenpox. At this time, four burglars working for a North Korean terrorist group are sent by their boss to obtain a top-secret microchip that can act as a cloaking device for a missile. They succeed in retrieving the chip and hide it in a remote controlled car, but due to a luggage mix-up at the airport with the Pruitts’ neighbor Mrs. Hess, the car lands in the hands of Alex who lives across the street from her. The four burglars, three men and one woman, know the car is on Alex’s street. So they search every house on the street. But Alex uses the car to get a video of them. After that, they both prepare for a small battle, Alex prepares the house, and the burglars prepare to break into the house. The burglars fall for all the traps and Alex captures three of them. The fourth burglar nearly gets away, but Alex’s brothers’ parrot reveals him, by blowing up the igloo he is hiding in.
Cast:Macaulay Culkin, Alex D. Linz, Mike Weinberg
Watch It Now – Home Alone 3
Dec
17
Description:
The fourth and final installment of the series, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, premiered as a television movie on ABC on November 3, 2002. Mike Weinberg takes over the role of Kevin McCallister and French Stewart replaces Stern as Marv Merchants. In the film Kevin’s parents have divorced and he lives with his mom. He decides to go spend Christmas with his dad and his rich girlfriend, Natalie, but finds himself having to deal with his old nemesis Marv, and his new sidekick, Vera (played by Missi Pyle). Directed by Rod Daniel, it was shot in Rondebosch, a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.[1] It was released to Region 1 DVD on October 20, 2003.
Cast:Macaulay Culkin, Alex D. Linz, Mike Weinberg
Watch It Now – Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House
Dec
17
Description:
Bruno is an 8-year-old boy growing up during World War II in Berlin. He lives in a huge house with his parents, his 12-year-old sister Gretel and servants. His father is a high-ranking official who, after a visit from the “Fury” (Hitler), is promoted to ‘Commandant’, and to Bruno’s sadness the family has to move away to a place called Auschwitz.When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick after leaving behind his home, grandparents, and his three best friends. He is unhappy with his new home. It only has three floors and there are always soldiers coming in and out of the house. Bruno is lonely and has no one to talk to or play with. However, one day while Bruno is looking out of his window he notices a bunch of people all wearing the same striped pajamas. As he is a curious child, Bruno asks his father who these people are, but gets a rather unusual answer. His father tells him that these people are not people at all. They are rather just manual labor.
