Home Alone (1990)
Directed by Chris Columbus
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
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If you are John Hughes, the answer to these questions hinges on the phrase, "pre-teen Straw Dogs ", which is either proof of his audience-pleasing genius, or proof that he'd finally given up trying, depending upon your feelings about the film.
Indications of Pee-wee’s superior ability to capture the childhood experience can be found in details like this, particularly when compared to other childhood films of the era—take Home Alone, for example, where we inexplicably see every room in the house but Kevin’s.
History will show that “Ghostbusters” went on to become, until “Home Alone,” the highest grossing comedy of all time, earning $13 million in its opening weekend, which I’m sure Columbia put towards the box office bomb that was “The Razor’s Edge.”