Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara. It premiered on November 10, 1990, in Chicago, and entered wide release in the United States on November 16, 1990. With a total gross of USD 476. 7 million, it held the record for the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever, until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011. Home Alone spawned a successful film franchise that started with the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2.
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Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas family comedy film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O’Hara. The film follows Kevin, an eight-year-old boy, who must defend his home from two burglars, Harry and Marv. It premiered on November 10, 1990, in Chicago, and entered wide release in the United States on November 16, 1990. With a total gross of USD 476. 7 million, it held the record for the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever, until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011. Home Alone spawned a successful film franchise that started with the 1992 sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, which is the only Home Alone sequel to have most of the original cast reprising their roles. It was originally meant to be distributed by Warner Bros., but was transferred to 20th Century Fox when Hughes exceeded the USD 10 million limit that had been imposed on the film’s budget by Warner. The film received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or comedy for Culkin. It also received two Academy Award nominations for Best Original Score, which was composed by John Williams, and Best Original Song for \”Somewhere in My Memory\”. The film was filmed between February and May 1990 in a variety of locations throughout Illinois, including Chicago, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Milwaukee.
The movie was released in the U.S. in November 1990, and in the UK in November 1991, but not in Australia or New Zealand. The sequel, Home Alone 2, was released on November 25, 1992, in Australia and the UK on November 26, 1992. It is the first of two sequels to the film, the other being Home Alone 3: The Last House on the Left, which came out in March 1993. The second sequel, Home Alone 4: is released on December 25, 2012. The third sequel, Home Alone 5: the sequel to Home Alone 6, is scheduled for release on December 26, 2013. The fourth sequel,Home Alone 6: The Final Chapter, is due out on December 28, 2013, and is expected to be released in Australia on December 29, 2013 and in Europe on December 30, 2013; it is not scheduled for U.K. release in Canada or the UK. The last sequel is Home Alone 7: The Last Episode, which opens on December 31, 2014, and comes out in Australia the following day. The first sequel is called Home Alone 8: The New Beginning, and it is about Kevin and his quest to find his family after they accidentally leave him behind on a family vacation in Paris, France. In the confusion and rush to get to the airport, Kevin is accidentally left behind. He is overjoyed with his newfound freedom. However, he soon becomes frightened by his next door neighbor, Old Man Marley, who is rumored to be a serial killer who murdered his own family, as well as the \”Wet Bandits\”, a pair of burglars who have been breaking into other vacant houses.
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