The family McCallister are gathering in preparation of spending Christmas in Paris, at Peter (John Heard) and Kate's (Catherine O'Hara) home in a suburb of Chicago.
On
the night before their flight their eight-year-old son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin)
is sent to the third-floor bedroom of the house as punishment for fighting with
his brother.
While
in solitary confinement he wishes his family would disappear.
During
the night a power cut resets all the alarm clocks and causes the entire group
to oversleep.
In
the resulting panic and confusion of the rush to make their flight their
youngest son Kevin is left home alone.
Its
only when the family are airborne that they realize and immediately on arrival
in Paris they desperately try to book a flight home.
Kevin
is overjoyed to find that his wish came true when he wakes up to find everyone
gone and the house to himself and able to do anything he wanted.
The
downside to all this are The Wet Bandits, Harry Lyme (Joe Pesci) and Marv
Merchants (Daniel Stern), who are planning to break into vacant houses in the
neighbourhood.
There
is also another danger that of Old Man Marley (Roberts Blossom) who Kevin
believes murdered his whole family.
The
story follows the bad guy’s attempts to rob the house and Kevin’s efforts to
thwart them while Kate takes extreme measures to get home.
There
is slapstick galore, humour in abundance, sentimentality, and a happy ending.
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