If we talk about Christmas classics, the name of alone at home It won’t take long to appear. The title that propelled Macaulay Culkin towards a celebrity as moving as it is ephemeral has grossed nearly 500 million dollars in cinemas around the world and brings together an equivalent number of people in front of the television each year. In Spain, alone at home can be seen on Disney+.
Directed by Chris Colomb, alone at home, even though we remember it so recently, will be 35 years old in 202510 fewer than Macaulay Culkin. Maybe this Christmas you’ll especially want to stay exactly 100 minutes in the abandoned McAllister house. If so, we will tell you five curiosities about this film, ranging from Macaulay Culkin’s (ir)rational hatred of him to… Friends.
Macaulay Culkin, protagonist and “hater”
Maybe it’s because he’s seen it too many times or because it’s a painful reminder that not long ago he was the most promising actor in the world. In any case, Macaulay Culkin confessed that over time he developed an increasing rejection of alone at home and he never saw her again. What’s more, he also avoids leaving the house at Christmas (what he calls “Macaulay season”) and is not happy about being asked to reproduce Kevin McAllister’s famous scream.
Joe Pesci didn’t trust the film
He was without a doubt the most prestigious actor on set. Shortly after filming alone at home, Joe Pesci I would be one of us and would win an Oscar for which he had already opted, also under the direction of Martin Scorsese, with wild bull. So the story of a rich boy abandoned by his parents who stood up to thieves didn’t particularly grab his attention, except to pay the bills. He and Daniel Stern doubted it alone at home was going to go very far, so they admitted to having put in so little effort that they openly chose to do too much.
A shared phobia
The scenario of alone at home it is not the work of Chris Columbuswhich does not prevent the fact that in its plot there is, by chance, an autobiographical component: the director of the first two parts of Harry Potter As a child, he feared house thieves. The idea of his house being broken into at night terrified him, so as soon as he heard this film was being made, he wanted to be involved. No one would understand Kevin McAllister better than Chris Columbus.
A cruel but thoughtful joke
You’ll have seen it in more than one movie: an overweight or unattractive child becomes the butt of jokes, sometimes in a light-hearted way and other times with the aim of denouncing his bullies. The two options converge into one: a casting director deemed it appropriate to choose a particular child so that the other characters would make fun of his appearance.
In alone at homeThis happens with Buzz’s (Kevin’s brother) girlfriend, who appears in a photo. So that, indirectly, no one makes fun of a real person, Colomb chose a boy (son of his artistic director) and dressed him as a girl.
Chandler is home alone
For years, this was a theory comparable to that which asserted that Break the bad It was a dream of Bryan Cranston’s character in Malcolm in the Middle. However, one authoritative voice finally verified it: the house Monica and Chandler move into in the final season of Friends is that of the McAllisters in alone at home.
The artistic director of Friends He agreed with an Instagram post that speculated on this and explained that because Chandler’s house was a stage, the exterior that suited him best was the one seen through the windows of alone at home. So they projected it as is.
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