The first film of the legendary family franchise "Home Alone" was released in 1990 and won the hearts of the audience with a kind and funny plot in the best traditions of the cinema of the nineties, a charming main character performed by Macaulay Culkin and of course, the unique spirit of Christmas. Eight-year-old Kevin McAllister, accidentally forgotten at home when his extended family flew to Paris for the Christmas holidays, and managed to repel the robbers, quickly became a favorite of adults and a role model for many children.
The sequels following the second film, including the 2021 reboot, were received rather cool by critics, especially if they told about completely different characters or the action in them did not take place around Christmas. However, outside of this franchise, there are many more good movies like the classic Home Alone movies, and each of them is able to give the viewer vivid emotions and pleasant impressions.
Million for Christmas
Director: James Orr
Genre: Comedy, Family, Crime
Year of issue: 2007
Good and bright cinema in the best traditions of Christmas comedies. Family is at the center of events Sanderswho were unlucky this year: after the dismissal of the head of the family, they are forced to move from Los Angeles to a small Canadian town, and their mother has to stay in the same place. To entertain the children, the father arranges for them big trip to the local supermarket. And who would have thought that there guys find a bag with a million dollars.
While the children are deciding how to dispose of the wealth that has fallen on them, the real owners of money suddenly appear - these are bandits who announce the hunt for kids. But the younger generation of the Sanders family is also not going to give up so easily. I wonder what the police inspector is playing here Tim Curry, familiar to many for the role of the evil concierge from Home Alone 2.
[webnavoz_rating id=88320]3615 code of Santa Claus
Directed by: René Manzor
Genre: action, thriller, horror
Year of issue: 1989
Can you imagine the movie "Home Alone" not as a good comedy, but as tense thriller and drama? However, due to the release date - 1989 - this French film is unlikely to really scare, and thanks to the Christmas theme, you can still watch it on New Year's Eve. The story begins when psychopath dressed up as Santa Claus, infiltrates the home of a precocious boy, Thomas, and his grandfather.
The boy's grandfather is almost blind and has diabetes, so the child has to fight off the criminal on his own, while also protecting the old man. Fortunately, Thomas is a real prodigy who, dressed as Rambo, is preparing to fight back an intruder, inventing sophisticated traps throughout the great mansion. True, unlike Kevin McCallister, our hero did not know about the attack in advance, so he has to invent methods of protection literally on the go.
[webnavoz_rating id=88321]Dennis the Tormentor
Directed by: Nick Castle
Genre: comedy, family
Year of issue: 1993
A sparkling family comedy based on the comics of the same name. Main character - XNUMX year old Dennis, which is a real punishment for everyone around. Unlike the same Kevin, who deliberately developed traps for bandits, this kid just wants to earn the attention of adults, but with his tricks he brings even more trouble to himself. He gets especially hard neighbor, Mr Wilson.
And how can films like Home Alone not be without a dangerous criminal? In this story, he is also a thug named Sam played by Christopher Lloydstealing young children. But the maniac did not even suspect what grief in the face of Dennis he had brought upon himself.
[webnavoz_rating id=88322]How to deal with your father
Directed by: Howard Deutsch
Genre: Comedy, Family, Crime
Year of issue: 1994
And in this film, the main role is played by himself Macaulay Culkin, and although this is not the brightest film in his career, he still has a good message and also deserves attention. Like "Home Alone", the film also has a tie around criminal topics. 11-year-old Timmy was raised by an aunt, his mother died, and his father spent a long time in prison for robbery. When he is finally released, the aunt, who is about to get married, hands over the boy to the careless father.
Timmy witnesses another robbery. The hero of Kalkin shows miracles of ingenuity here too, hiding the loot and setting a condition for his father and his accomplices: he will return everything, if the father spends more time with him, takes to museums, to baseball and so on. Meanwhile, a police officer begins to follow the robbers.
[webnavoz_rating id=88323]Rich Richie
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Genre: comedy
Year of issue: 1994
Last child role Macaulay Culkin before a 9-year hiatus from his acting career. Everyone who watched this film as a child probably dreamed of the same thing that the protagonist had. Richie - a billion dollar fortune, cars, own amusemyont park and even your own personal McDonald's in a separate room. At the same time, Richie is an ordinary, not too spoiled boy who has have everything except one - friends. Fortunately, one day he still manages to make friends with the guys who become his faithful comrades.
But even here it is not complete without confrontation with the villain: insidious swindler set up a plane crashto destroy Richie's parents and take their fortune for himself. The film also has a sequel, Richie's Strange Christmas, albeit with different actors and on a smaller scale.
[webnavoz_rating id=88324]Christmas present
Director: Brian Levant
Genre: comedy, family
Year of issue: 1996
Another good comedy with the spirit of a real Christmas, produced by Chris Columbus, director of the first two parts of Home Alone. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays here in the comedic role of the unlucky father-clerk Howard Langston, who, due to work, spends too little time with his wife and son Jamie. To make amends, he promises to bring his son for Christmas the most popular toy - Turboman.
Yes, here's the problem: Turbomen are already sold out everywhere, and in order to find it in the city, Howard will have to try very hard, and even enter into a confrontation with a competitor - the postman Myron Larabee, who also promised this toy to his child as a gift.
[webnavoz_rating id=86400]Difficult child
Directed by: Dennis Dugan
Genre: comedy, family
Year of issue: 1990
Another hilarious comedy in the spirit of Home Alone, in which the little fidget is again at the center of events. Seven-year-old Junior is a real imp, who lives in an orphanage, but because of his terrible character, the boy has already been returned several times by foster parents. It seems that the leadership of the boarding school no longer has any hope of getting rid of the bully, but at this time he is adopted by a modest sporting goods store salesman Ben Healy and his selfish wife Florence.
At first, Junior gives Ben too much trouble, but later the man realizes that the boy simply lacks love and attention. The situation heats up when the stage also enters prison escapee known as the "Butterfly Killer", from which Junior took an example.
[webnavoz_rating id=88325]Baby on a walk, or crawling from gangsters
Directed by: Patrick Read Johnson
Genre: Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Year of issue: 1994
As can be seen from this selection, among the comedies of the nineties, which to this day evoke nostalgic feelings in us, there were quite a few films built according to the scheme: bandits, a child opposing them, and endless amusing torture of the unfortunate who dared to challenge him. In this film, the main character is much younger than Kevin McAllister and other "colleagues": this baby binkwho comes from a wealthy family for the purpose of ransom kidnapped by a trinity of bandits-losers.
However, the criminals did not expect that the baby would cause them so much trouble. And while they are escaping from the troubles that have piled on them, Bink travels all over the city, exploring the world, like the hero of his favorite children's book.
[webnavoz_rating id=88326]Curly Sue
Director: John Hughes
Genre: comedy, family
Year of issue: 1991
The last directorial work of John Hughes, who worked on many American family comedies with the participation of children, including the three parts of Home Alone. In this film, he took a familiar classic story created by Charlie Chaplin - Tramp and Baby, rejected by the whole world, travel, gradually finding a family and shelter. Here these images are presented by a charming baby Sue and her swindler father Bill.
Bill and Sue make a living from petty scams. One day fate brings them together with a divorce lawyer Gray Allisonwho takes a liking to them and wants to help. But her boyfriend Walker, holding a grudge against them, tries to prevent this.
[webnavoz_rating id=86403]mouse hunting
Directed by: Gore Verbinski
Genre: comedy, family
Year of issue: 1997
And in this stunning comedy, the two unfortunate main characters are rebuffed not by a child, but by a mouse, but builds traps no less sophisticated than in Home Alone, providing viewers with hilarious scenes and fun. Brothers Lars and Ernie Schmuntz they inherit from their father not only a twine factory, but also an old mansion on the outskirts of the city. The stakes rise when it turns out that this house can be very profitable to sell at auction.
There is only one problem - the mouse that lives there, who does not want to leave her shelter, but the brothers just need to get rid of her. What at first seemed like a child's game, gradually turns into a battle not for life, but for death.
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