The family McCallister are gathering in preparation of Christmas in Miami, at Peter (John Heard) and Kate's (Catherine O'Hara) home in a suburb of Chicago.
Ten-year-old
son Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is unimpressed with the prospect of Christmas in
Miami and on the night before their flight after a family argument he storms
off to the third-floor bedroom of the house where he wishes he had his own
money so he could go on his own vacation.
Peter unknowingly resets the family's alarm clock, which
causes them to oversleep.
In
the resulting panic and confusion of the rush to make their flight their
youngest son Kevin gets on the wrong flight and is bound for New York.
It’s
only when the family arrive in Florida that they realize Kevin is missing.
Kevin
meanwhile is touring New York is checking into the Plaza Hotel.
In Florida, the McCallister's discover Kevin has been
found using Peter's credit card in New York so the family flies to New York and
Kate desperately tries to find her son.
Sadly, after visiting Duncan's Toy Chest Kevin crosses
the paths of The Wet Bandits,
Harry Lyme (Joe Pesci) and Marv Merchants (Daniel Stern), who are planning to
break into Duncan's
Toy Chest and steal the proceeds
which are due to go to a children’s charity.
The
story follows the bad guys attempts to rob the Store and Kevin’s efforts to
thwart them while Kate takes extreme measures to find him.
There
is slapstick galore, humour in abundance, sentimentality and a happy ending.
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