Home Alone

[Moliphino]

WOW. Now that's incredible!!! I cannot even fathom that.

I thought that, then realized my grandmother had 8 in 10 years before 35, which is pretty close.

 

[Cadiewampus]

The house that the McCallister's lived in and the fact that they were able to afford a family vacation to Paris makes a lot more sense to me now that I recently learned that Home Alone took place and was filmed in Winnetka, Illinois, which is one of the wealthiest areas of the US in terms of household income.

Yikes I just looked up homes for sale in Winnetka, Illinois. Some nice shacks there

 

[PrincessShmoo]

if Buzz is 16,
Megan is 15 (Megan is somewhat younger than Buzz but not too much)
Linnie is 13
Jeff "You're such a disease" is 12
Kevin is 8.
That seems like a lot of kids in a short amount of time. Maybe that just seems odd to me.

Hmmm....well, my oldest is 18 months older than my second. Third pregnancy put that kid 2 years later. And kid #4 was 2 1/2 years later.

Yeah, it's "a lot" but do-able.

 

[firefly_ris]

Yeah I have 3 kids, first and second are 18 months apart and second and third are 20 months apart. So I didn't have 5, but, plenty possible in an 8 year span.

 

[TheIncredibles!]

What are your thoughts/theories/missives/comments about his holiday classic?

Will we ever learn what Peter Mccallister does for a living?
How did a mid-thirties Catherine O'Hara have so many teenagers - when did she start having kids?
Is Old Man Marley really a Kevin from the future who has returned to 1990 to alter his own tragic childhood?
When Catherine O'Hara's character says that she'll sell her soul to the devil himself to get home to Kevin and then Gus (John Candy) appears, is Gus the devil?

If you like Home Alone, what are your thoughts on these matters?

Maybe the Mrs was where the $$ was at....

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I have yet to watch Home Alone this year, but it is on my watchlist. I will be knocking that out in the next few days. I absolutely love it, this one is definitely on my must see list every year.

There are definitely a lot of question marks about where all that money and all those kids came from.

Maybe there is something to that Kate selling her soul to the "devil himself" that I never considered.

If you recall Planes, Trains, and Automobiles a short time before..... did John Candy not look like the devil in the one scene??

*for the record I absolutely LOVED John Candy, he was one of my favorite actors of all time!

 

[Diznygrl]

I remember reading somewhere that Peter is a stockbroker and Kate is a fashion designer (hence all the mannequins in the basement and master bedroom). Just another theory though probably.

Freeform airs a "pop-up video" version of the first movie (don't know why they never made one for the second) and one of the pop-up facts stated that in 1990 11 coach and 4 first class tickets from Chicago to Paris would have cost over $43,000.

 

[mjkacmom]

Yeah I have 3 kids, first and second are 18 months apart and second and third are 20 months apart. So I didn't have 5, but, plenty possible in an 8 year span.

I had my 5 in 6 1/2 years, started at 29 though.

 

[tvguy]

Which then brings us back to the issue of when Kate McCallister started having children.

While it is a movie and pure fiction, I find having five children over 8-9 years entirely believable. Financing such expensive travel for a family that size is not within my life experience, so less believable.
I am my mom's only child. Her older sister has six kids over 10 years. Her younger sister had five kids over 10 years. Her older brother and his wife had five kids over 10 years. But all my Aunts and Uncles were far less affluent. Family gatherings were always in their home cities.....in Canada......because they couldn't afford to travel with all the kids they had. It was just easier and cheaper for my dad, mom and I to travel there, and after my dad passed, just my mom and I.

 

[QueenIsabella]

My mom had 4 kids before her 5th wedding anniversary, so I find that totally believable. I used to work with a guy who had 4 kids in less than 2 years (by a day), but his last 2 were twins.

The house and travel, while very nice--well, some people can afford to do that.

Overall, though, the OP seems to be reading way too much into a movie. I don't think there's a movie out there that you couldn't nit-pick at.

 

[DodgerGirl]

I saw Home Alone when it first came out on video and I had a big crush on the character Kevin McCallister and it thought it was so funny. But one thing I have never figured out and still can't figure out about Home Alone is when the McCallisters eat pizza and then it turns into a pizza fight all because Kevin accused Buzz of eating his pizza and I think Buzz should've gotten in trouble and not Kevin because I think Buzz was trying to think of a way to bully Kevin because if you remember when the movie began Kevin asked Buzz if he could sleep in his room because he didn't want to sleep with his cousin and Buzz said no but when the pizza fight started Buzz should've taken the blame. But what I think they should've not done was make Home Alone 3 and left it at Home Alone 2 because I think Home Alone 3 was not the same and I think they mainly wanted to introduce the new character Alex Pruitt to the series to make it more watchable

 

[TCRAIG]

My parents were both 24 when they married and had 6 of us 7 kids by age 36…

 

[pinkxray]

I’ve always wondered what the parents did for work since they seem pretty well off. Fashion designer makes sense for the mom since not many people have a bunch of mannequins in their house.

I never really thought about the mom being too young to have teens. I saw the home alone movies as a kid in the theaters. I am a little younger than Kevin so in my mind the mom was ancient, as adults were when you are a kid. Watching now, I just figured she was supposed to be late 30’s. So if they wanted her to be 39/40 that would put her having Buzz after college.

My main question was always who decided to only order 1 cheese pizza with a house full of people. I would think with that crowd you would get like 4 to 5 cheese pizzas and maybe a couple with toppings

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I saw Home Alone when it first came out on video and I had a big crush on the character Kevin McCallister and it thought it was so funny. But one thing I have never figured out and still can't figure out about Home Alone is when the McCallisters eat pizza and then it turns into a pizza fight all because Kevin accused Buzz of eating his pizza and I think Buzz should've gotten in trouble and not Kevin because I think Buzz was trying to think of a way to bully Kevin because if you remember when the movie began Kevin asked Buzz if he could sleep in his room because he didn't want to sleep with his cousin and Buzz said no but when the pizza fight started Buzz should've taken the blame. But what I think they should've not done was make Home Alone 3 and left it at Home Alone 2 because I think Home Alone 3 was not the same and I think they mainly wanted to introduce the new character Alex Pruitt to the series to make it more watchable

In my opinion, Home Alone an Home Alone 2 are the only ones that exist

Also... I believe that Buzz should have been in more trouble than Kevin, in BOTH movies.

 

[Tink-osophy]

Why did Kevin leave it so late to heat up his mac & cheese?!

 

[bennifer]

My question is: How do you leave your baby home? Middle children, sure, oldest, maybe, but you would think you always know where the youngest is.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

My question is: How do you leave your baby home? Middle children, sure, oldest, maybe, but you would think you always know where the youngest is.

Well if it makes you feel any better, Frank forgot his reading glasses.

 

[Minnesota!]

My favorite Christmas movie (#2). Love #1, too! But now, I am going to scrutinize it each time on what I think they do to afford it...

My coworker used to throw in my face (when I would have had a long night with my kid/s) how she had 4 kids in a span of 2.5 years and she survived the sleepless nights just fine.

Yeah, well that is when you could give them whiskey to shut up, Nancy..

 

[Diznygrl]

Why did Kevin leave it so late to heat up his mac & cheese?!

LOL, this has always bothered me. Like, you know the bad guys are coming at 9:00, WHY are you just taking your mac&cheese out of the microwave at 8:57?? And even lighting candles for it! I guess you just have to assume he really wasn't paying attention to the time at that point even though the microwave clock was staring him right in the face?


I think the biggest question is, how the heck did Kevin clean up all that catastrophic mess in what appears to be just a few short hours, if that. I mean, those feathers in the dining room???

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

He only forgot to clean Buzz's room