FAME READS / SCREEN NOTES
Home Alone
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Scores
- Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer67%as of 2022-11-29
- Rotten Tomatoes average5.8/10as of 2021-10-05
- Metacritic63/100as of 2025-06-16
What it is
Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.
At a glance
- Genres
- Comedy / Adventure
- Original language
- English
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