Home Alone as everyone knows and as the Derann label points out was one of the most successful films of 1990. It must be about the most perfect kids' film ever made. Macauley Culkin having been left behind when the rest of the family leave for a European trip, has the house to himself and gets to inflict a serious of cartoon like violent attacks on a couple of Larcenous oafs played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern in his bid to thwart their plans to burgle him. Not only that but it all happens over Christmas.
The film was produced by Twentieth Century who picked up the option when Warners who had been a bout to start filming it, reckoned up the cost and decided that there was no money to made in a kiddie film. 1 wonder how many heads rolled after that stroke of genius. The trailer itself follows the plot chronologically and is almost a mini-mini-cutdown of the film itself. We see the parents waking up on the morning of the trip having overslept and making a mad dash to the airport. It isn't until they are safety aboard the plane in mid-air that the mother, superbly played by Catherine 01Hara, realizes that they have forgotten something but she can't quite remember what.
Cut back to the family home where the sudden realization that he has been left behind prompts the first of many yells from Culkin. Enter the villains and we are treated to a quick succession of some of the worst indignities they are subjected to by the wily Culkin. It's a first class, fast moving trailer with almost a laugh a second when it moves up into high gear. The print I viewed was a little dark but it didn't affect my great enjoyment of this great trailer.
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