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DVD Home Alone - Family Fun Edition
Now and forever a favorite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realizes he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries the film. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. --Tom Keogh
This special edition includes extra footage which I believe may affect its rating, particularly a sequence in which Macaulay Culkin does a provocative dance with only a hand towel wrapped around his waist. I really did not think this added anything to the movie and I suspect it was just thrown in to court controversy.
classic fun
My kids and I still love watching this one every year. I still wince at the same crude humor every year. The actors are great and we laugh very hard, especially at the tarantula on Marv's face.
Review Home Alone? Why not...
Ok, I thought long and hard about this review, and there are so many things to say about the movie. As a matter of fact, you could read other reviews, and get the jest of it, but perhaps you're reading mine for sheer entertainment. For whatever reason you chose, my review is up to you. I have mixed feelings about this movie. I love the movie because, of Christmas. I am in favor of Christmas, and the fact that it takes place in my dream house, on the very same street I dream of having it in. However tt has a lot of overdone bad acting, but stays giggle funny. Definitely a kid's movie or a parent with a child at heart. I hold this movie kind of special to me, because I saw it in the theatre on a date. It was my first real serious relationship, and brings back memories. The morals of the movie are pretty standard, but most of all, it's just a funny, feel good holiday movie. If you really just moved to this planet and have not ever seen it, check this out with the family. You should, enjoy it, that is of course your not desensitized by the remakes and multibillion dollar crap they show now a days. And by some EXTREAMLY slight chase you don't somewhat like it... You can get the F&%K out!
This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster Home Alone revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 05 October 1999 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Divorced toy company executive Scott Calvin (Tim Allen of Home Improvement and the Toy Story movies) is pleased to have his son Charlie for Christmas, though the boy himself isn't happy about it. But when Santa Claus accidentally topples off the roof of the house and falls with a thud in the snow, Scott finds himself taking the merry old elf's place and earning new respect in his son's eyes. When the night ends, the reindeer take them to the north pole, and Scott discovers that by donning the fabled red suit, he's inadvertently agreed to become the next Santa Claus. The next morning he wakes up in his own bed and thinks it's all a dream--only Charlie remembers it with crystal clarity. Scott now has to deal with his suspicious ex-wife (Wendy Crewson, Air Force... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Tim Allen - Judge Reinhold DVD Release Date: Released the 29 October 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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You know exactly what you're getting in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation: another goofball, slapstick comedy of chaos and catastrophe with Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) and family. This time, there's no traveling involved: Clark and Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo) prepare for a nice Christmas with the kids (played by none other than Juliette Lewis and Roseanne star Johnny Galecki), when their home is invaded by backwoods cousin Eddie (Randy Quaid) and his brood, along with assorted other crazy and/or stuffy relatives. Complications, of course, are inevitable. The film is preceded by National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) and National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985) and followed by National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation (1997). Directed by Jeremiah Chechik, who... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Jeremiah S. Chechik DVD Release Date: Released the 07 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Here's a perfect movie for kids, who never seem to tire of John Hughes's sure-fire slapstick formula. Working yet another variation on his mammoth 1990 hit, writer-producer Hughes (regarded by many as Hollywood's antichrist) strands a youngster in his own home with the chicken pox in this 1997 retelling. While his parents go to work, he sees a team of burglars invading the neighborhood houses; in fact, they're spies, looking for a toy containing a stolen microchip. The inevitability of the finale--one kid holding off four professionals with toys and garden tools--will do nothing to lessen the amusement of youngsters, who love to see the bad guys get creamed. Adults may pause at the sadistic nature of some of Hughes's pranks, but kids will eat up the image of one of their own outwitting... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Alex D. Linz Director(s): Raja Gosnell DVD Release Date: Released the 16 October 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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A Christmas Story is on its way to becoming an annual holiday classic, one to keep on the shelf with It's a Wonderful Life, the puppet-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. It may have been directed by Bob Clark (responsible for the Porky's pictures), but it's based on the childhood memoirs of humorist Jean Shepherd (from his hilarious book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash). And it is Shepherd's wry, deadly accurate and gently nostalgic comic sensibility that shines through in this kid's-eye-view of an all-American Christmas in the 1940s. All little Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants under the tree on Christmas morning is a Daisy Brand Red-Ryder BB rifle. He not only wants it, he's consumed with an aching... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Billingsley DVD Release Date: Released the 07 October 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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