When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.
The Home Alone theme is also part of BSO’s Holiday Magic concert repertoire!
BSO concert-goers receive a $1 ticket discount by entering the promo code BSOHOME on the payment screen at Pickford’s online checkout or by using it in person at the box office. Discounts are also offered to anyone with a ticket stub from our recent Decmeber 7th concert.
Snow was not in the film's budget — but then a blizzard happened. The producers really couldn't afford it, but after snow covered the entire set on the second day of shooting, they had no choice but to call in the snow machines for the remainder of the film's production.
Catherine O'Hara didn't always deliver her dialogue to Macaulay, due to restrictions on the working hours of child actors. "We'd shoot a scene with one of the kids; then, as late as one in the morning, we'd shoot my close-ups," she recalled. "They'd have a tennis ball on a stand, the height of the kid's head, and the script supervisor would read the children's lines."
The blowtorch scene has a small flub. The iconic scene was done using an illusion called "Pepper's Ghost." The fire is actually pointing at a pane of glass, and is being fired at a fake head sculpture. If you look closely, you can see the fake head. .
This year marks the 35th anniversary for the film.
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