In 1990, director Chris Columbus and screenwriter John Hughes he had one of the biggest hits of his life with the holiday comedy alone at home.
This is the movie he made Macaulay Culkin a star in turn as an eight-year-old boy, Kevin McCallister.
Audiences loved how he tormented two thieves, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), the Wet Bandits, when they dared to enter his house.
alone at home has become a perennial favorite over the past 35 years. And now, we’ll tell you where you can see it in 2025.
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Where is ‘Home Alone’ playing this holiday season?
Although alone at home was produced and released by 20th Century Fox in 1990, it is now and forever a Disney film. That’s because Disney bought all of Fox’s entertainment assets in 2019. Consequently, alone at home it has a semi-permanent streaming home on Disney+.
If you have cable, there will be multiple screenings alone at home on Freeform, a channel that is also owned by Disney. However, streaming will always be the best option simply because it allows you to make your own schedule.
alone at home it’s streaming Disney+ i Hulu.
Where can I watch the “Home Alone” sequels?
all six yes six— alone at home movies are streaming on Disney+. The sequels are listed below:
- Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Home alone 3
- Home alone 4
- Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
- Home Sweet Home Alone
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York it was a direct sequel to the first film and was a box office hit. It was not as successful as the first one. Home alone 3 it hit theaters with a new cast and characters, but audiences didn’t take to it. The next sequel, Home alone 4made for TV and recast with Kevin McCallister Mike Weinberg on paper But you can’t really replace Mac, and that was the last time anyone tried.
Disney+ actually happened Home Sweet Home Alone as an independent sequel that appeared Devin Ratray reprising his role as Kevin’s older brother, Buzz McCallister. On the other hand, it has a completely new cast, including Archie Yates, Rob Delaney, Ellie Kemper, Allied Maki, Kenan Thompson, Chris Parnell i Pete Holmes. This is a very talented lineup for a straight movie.
What is the best “Home Alone” sequel?
In the second, Home Alone 2: Lost in New YorkChris Columbus and John Hughes returned to direct and write the screenplay, respectively, with all the main cast members reprising their roles. Unlike all the other sequels that came after, Home alone 2 He actually tried something different by getting Kevin out of the house and into the big city alone.
It takes many coincidences to bring Kevin back into the orbit of the Wet Bandits, Marv and Harry. But it’s great fun watching Kevin outsmart them and brutally mutilate them in PG-appropriate ways. The best new addition to the cast was Tim Curry like the concierge at Kevin’s hotel, who was rightly suspicious of his presence there. Home alone 2 it borrows many of the same story beats as the first film, but it’s not the weak xerox copy that its successors were.
Home alone 2 it’s streaming Disney+.