The fact that Joe Pesci did this and GOODFELLAS in the same year and won an Oscar for the latter is frankly amazing to me. Probably the greatest one-two punch in terms of acting range in the same year.
You can *see* the gears churning in his head as he tries not to cuss on camera. (Hearing him do the whole Yosemite Sam not-quite-swearing bit under his breath never fails to make me smile.)
@@LeviBoldock Right. 'Cuz there's no meaningful difference between listening to Tommy talk about banging jyu brods and watching Harry do Looney Tunes faces in response to comical booby traps.
The movie made $476,684,675 back in 1990 that's equivalent to $1,150,655,533 in 2024. It only had a budget of $15 million, so yes it was an instant classic
Oh this movie was such an instant hit, within a couple weeks after its premiere they released a whole new set of TV promos centered on asking people how many times they had seen the movie. At the time its run ended it was the third highest grossing film ever.
If you pause just when the milk gets spilled on the passports, you'll see that it was Kevin's passport & ticket that got soaked, and it ended up getting thrown into the garbage. That's one of the reasons why the mom didn't notice Kevin missing on the flight, because she didn't have his passport & ticket with her 🤔
This film was an INSTANT HIT when it first came out... it came out the same weekend as The Rescuers Down Under, and that film underperformed because of Home Alone XD
Marv getting his face full of spider is arguably the best part of the movie. BTW, nice Little Nero's Pizza sweater. And this movie and Harry Potter were made by the same director, Chris Columbus, and both have music by John Williams as well.
Every time I rewatch this movie I discover something new to love, case in point; When Kevin orders the lovely cheese pizza, (just for him), his character must sound insane to the pizza delivery guy ... Even before he pulls out the gun. "What about the money?" "What money?!" "Well you have to pay for your pizza sir." "Is that a fact? How much do I owe ya?" As in the guy just assumed you don't have to pay for pizza.
Yes this movie was an instant classic. It was so popular that Macualey Culkin even hosted SNL not long after the movie was released. He was the second youngest host ever. Drew Barrymore was the youngest.
This film is a part of my DNA, and it makes up a good portion of my childhood! I even own a TalkBoy from the second movie when they started selling it during that time period!
23:20 Marv's fall down the steps is classic. You see his feet slip on the ice, then they show his face...a little delay...THEN he falls. It's very reminiscent of the old Coyote/Road Runner cartoons.
Another great Christmas movie is The Ref, with Denis Leary. He is a burglar on the run, on Christmas Eve, who takes a dysfunctional family hostage, while waiting for a chance to leave the area. And later on the relatives arrive for Christmas dinner... So the poor burglar has to act as some kind of marriage counselor to keep things under control. Kevin Spacey is the husband in that dysfunctional family.
Macaulay Culkin frequently appearing on Red Letter Media is one of my favourite things in the world. He even got to spoon with Rich Evans at one point!
If the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't make you fall in love with pizza as a 90'a kid, this certainly did! I love that John Candy and Macaulay were reunited in this after Uncle Buck. Even though they didn't share a scene together, close enough. The funeral story by Candy was completely improvised, which makes it even more hilarious, rest in peace.. Marv's spider death scream is legit. He really had arachnophobia. The greatest crime committed in this movie is certainly... that Kevin didn't even get to eat his highly nutritious Macaroni and Cheese..He is most known for this but also great in other films. "The Good Son" and "My Girl" I highly recommend. "What, now?" "No tomorrow ya egghead yeah now!" 😂
I mean... it doesn't take a lot of work to make kids love pizza. There's some kind of mental switch that doesn't get flipped off until mid-puberty that makes you only want to eat: French fries, burgers, fried chicken and pizza given the option.
*VERY* popular when it came out, like others have said. I was in college at the time. A guy I think I had had one date with, we were talking about this movie, and he said he didn't like it. I thought, "well, that's the end of that!" Didn't go out with him again.
The part where criminal grabs the hot doorknob is a homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the evil guy grabs the red hot medallion and then runs out into the snow to cool his hand.
I'm delighted to see this! My favourite Home Alone related thing is that Hitman World of Assassination's Paris location has a Christmas mission... Featuring these two bumbling thieves.
You know the crazy fan theory is that some believed that Kevin grows up to become Jigsaw the serial killer from the Saw movies because of the traps he sets up
The musical score and the director are the same as Harry Potter. You have to love the combination that John Williams and Chris Columbus make. Magic. And yes Addie. This became a Christmas classic the instant it came out.
I love this movie so much. I was 19 when this came out and saw it four times at the theater. Lot of great people in this movie. I loved Roberts Blossom as Old Man Marley; he is no longer with us and was quite the character actor. I have seen him in more than a few movies. He was in two movies directed by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Always. He also had a role in the John Carpenter film Christine, based upon the book by Stephen King.
Fun story: We watched this movie last Christmas year for the very FIRST TIME in our lives. And when it came to the booby trap scene, my mom said she was laughing SO HARD that she thought she was going to *pee* her pants! 🤣🤣🤣
I saw the trailer for this in the theater before Child’s Play 2 came on. A whole theater full of people came to watch a horror film and laughed for 2 minutes solid during the commercial for this. If that doesn’t give you an idea of how popular this film was from the start, I don’t know what will
It's probably the most well-liked Christmas movie among families who watch it because the comedy lands with almost everybody -- but A Christmas Story and/or A Christmas Carol are the most Christmas-y Christmas movies. (Ralphie is every selfish child at Christmas, Scrooge is every curmudgeon who regrets not having cultivated more close bonds with people in hindsight. They bookend the experience of Christmas perfectly.)
Yep, this was a Christmas classic from the get-go. It was the biggest box office hit of its year. From Wikipedia: Home Alone was the number-one film at the box office for 12 consecutive weeks, from its release weekend of November 16-18, 1990, through the weekend of February 1-3, 1991[...] After over nine months into its run, the film had earned 16x its debut weekend and ended up making a final gross of $285,761,243, the top-grossing film of its year in North America. The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever and held the record until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011
Fuller, Kevin's cousin who drinks all the soda and wets the bed, is played by Macaulay Culkin's brother Kieran, who played Scott's gay roommate Wallace in _Scott Pilgrim vs. The World_ .
I dont know if you knew this or not. But the scream when the tarantula was put on Daniel Sterns face was done in post production, so as not to scare the spider. ❤
Since you asked, at least here in Greece this movie was a big hit. I watched it in the cinema as a kid and everybody who watched it loved it. I know there were many people who watched it more than once at the cinema. I think I did too. I watched it with friends at least two times, yeah! Then I remember after a year or two it was on TV and ever since it was always at least once on TV. Having said that, one bit of info you might not know. Here in Greece the whole Santa bringing gifts is more of a January 1st thing than a Dec 25th. Because our "Santa" is based (though not by looks any more lol) to a Greek Orthodox Saint who is celebrated on the 1st of January. Obviously with American culture so powerful many people slowly also give gifts on Christmas, but usually it is mostly for Christmas meals and getting together, than anything else. Unfortunately as my bday is close by I was often given only a single present for both, some times none lol. Anyway, that's another story. Great reaction and I know what you mean, the older I get the more I find these movies, touching.
This was one of the first movies I saw in theaters and is one of my go to movies every Christmas. But did we ever find out what Kevin’s parents did to be able to afford that house and the trip to Paris?
One of the best christmas movies around. Definitely a Classic! The physical comedy bits are funny... even now! Peshi and Stern are hilarious as the wet bandits! Thanks for sharing Addie & Merry Christmas 🎅🌲☃️
8:23 Apparently Buzz’s gf is the art director’s son in a wig. The art director didn’t think it would be good to take a picture of a little girl just to be made fun of.
If you ever watch the movie Uncle Buck (John Hughes movie), keep an eye out for the single scene that gave Chris Columbus (director of this) the idea behind Home Alone.
22:4222:5222:5625:18 lol hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Joe Pesci wasn’t allowed to curse like he usually would, but he improvised by spouting cartoony gibberish. His New Jersey accent made it even funnier. Daniel Stern also had me laughing with Santa Claus and his elf (I can actually see that) as well as the chicken joke.
Hello Addie!😊 Macaulay Culkin's little sister Quinn Culkin, briefly appears in the airport scene. The film was an instant classic with a mere $18 million budget, grossing $476 million. Great reactions to the original Home Alone, Addie!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Since you mention Harry Potter, it's worth pointing out that John Williams did the music for Home Alone and all the Potter movies, while Chris Columbus directed Home Alone and the first two Potter movies, so there will be certain similarities...
No, it was a MASSIVE movie from the time it came out, and I'm only a year younger than Macaulay and I was once a fairly little blond-haired child, so it was pretty relatable, despite the fact that my mother and I were near the opposite end of the socio-economic spectrum from the McCallisters.
Probably one of the reasons Home Alone and Harry Potter have similar vibes is Chris Columbus directed Home Alone and the first few Harry Potter films. And then of course John Williams is the composer for both.
This movie was and still is crazy popular. At least my generation. The second one is just as good. This movie series is like the Grinch Half to watch it at least every couple of years.
I wish I had the wisdom he has in this movie when I was his age. Also have you ever heard the movie theory of Candy being the devil because doesn’t she say she would give her anything to get back to Kevin then he appears?
"When I grow up and get married, I'm living alone!"
I don't think he understands how marriage works.
The fact that Joe Pesci did this and GOODFELLAS in the same year and won an Oscar for the latter is frankly amazing to me. Probably the greatest one-two punch in terms of acting range in the same year.
The timing is what makes his character even more hilarious in this
You can *see* the gears churning in his head as he tries not to cuss on camera.
(Hearing him do the whole Yosemite Sam not-quite-swearing bit under his breath never fails to make me smile.)
Playing two barely-different criminals is range? 😆
I cannot believe that!
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Right.
'Cuz there's no meaningful difference between listening to Tommy talk about banging jyu brods and watching Harry do Looney Tunes faces in response to comical booby traps.
I’m a 46 year-old straight man, and I cry like a little girl at the end of this movie when the old man is greeting his granddaughter.
If you don’t, you’re not human
9:52 "Oh it is not the same thing at all! You're not helpful!"
The movie made $476,684,675 back in 1990 that's equivalent to $1,150,655,533 in 2024. It only had a budget of $15 million, so yes it was an instant classic
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Oh this movie was such an instant hit, within a couple weeks after its premiere they released a whole new set of TV promos centered on asking people how many times they had seen the movie. At the time its run ended it was the third highest grossing film ever.
To expand on this, it such was a massive phenomenon that Macauley Culkin hosted SNL on the back of this movie at the age of 11!
If you pause just when the milk gets spilled on the passports, you'll see that it was Kevin's passport & ticket that got soaked, and it ended up getting thrown into the garbage. That's one of the reasons why the mom didn't notice Kevin missing on the flight, because she didn't have his passport & ticket with her 🤔
The real question is why were the ticket and passport on the table to begin with. 🤔
6:30 if you watch REALLY closely, the person doing the counting actually counts herself twice.
Funny thing about the inside of the McCallister house is that it was all built in a high school gym.
Saw this in theaters with my whole family and everyone was in pain afterwards from laughing so hard, the second one is even better too
This film was an INSTANT HIT when it first came out... it came out the same weekend as The Rescuers Down Under, and that film underperformed because of Home Alone XD
That is the best shirt ever, the Little Nero's gags are my favorite
Marv getting his face full of spider is arguably the best part of the movie. BTW, nice Little Nero's Pizza sweater. And this movie and Harry Potter were made by the same director, Chris Columbus, and both have music by John Williams as well.
Every time I rewatch this movie I discover something new to love, case in point;
When Kevin orders the lovely cheese pizza, (just for him), his character must sound insane to the pizza delivery guy ... Even before he pulls out the gun.
"What about the money?"
"What money?!"
"Well you have to pay for your pizza sir."
"Is that a fact? How much do I owe ya?"
As in the guy just assumed you don't have to pay for pizza.
18:40 It's Del Griffith! He got Neil home in time for Thanksgiving and now he's going to save Christmas.
Sold me some nice shower curtain rings.
Yes this movie was an instant classic. It was so popular that Macualey Culkin even hosted SNL not long after the movie was released. He was the second youngest host ever. Drew Barrymore was the youngest.
This film is a part of my DNA, and it makes up a good portion of my childhood! I even own a TalkBoy from the second movie when they started selling it during that time period!
Why are you saying DNA?
@serendavies7375 it's a saying at least where am from ,means he's seen it that much it's part of his makeup,
@@Hopz47 oh all right.
My favorite Christmas movie ever! Macaulay Culkin made this movie famous! Happy Holidays Addie.
23:20 Marv's fall down the steps is classic. You see his feet slip on the ice, then they show his face...a little delay...THEN he falls. It's very reminiscent of the old Coyote/Road Runner cartoons.
It's amazing how Christmas movies evolved over the decades. The evolution has been a joy to watch.
“Keep the change, ya filthy animal.” Best line ever 😆
This movie was so iconic that the music instantly became part of the US pantheon of Christmas Classics, alongside Bing Crosby and Burl Ives.
One of my favorite Daniel Stern roles is this film, City Slickers and Diner.
Diner is my personal favorite.
"Always leaving the water running. Now we know each and every house that you've hit."
This is my favorite Christmas movie. I can't wait to watch it again after I watch you watch it again LOL
The original theatrical run for the movie was about 7 months. People were still watching it from Thanksgiving to late Spring.
Another great Christmas movie is The Ref, with Denis Leary. He is a burglar on the run, on Christmas Eve, who takes a dysfunctional family hostage, while waiting for a chance to leave the area. And later on the relatives arrive for Christmas dinner... So the poor burglar has to act as some kind of marriage counselor to keep things under control. Kevin Spacey is the husband in that dysfunctional family.
Why, every year, does the McCallister family put a tree up and a million lights and decorations on the house just to then go on vacation?
Macaulay Culkin frequently appearing on Red Letter Media is one of my favourite things in the world. He even got to spoon with Rich Evans at one point!
Yes this was an instant classic right away. My family has watched it every christmas since its release.
I just realized unless it's Christmas there's only like 4 people living in that big ass house
Even if we watched this movie again and again, it’s the Perfect movie to have a good evening 😊
Merry Christmas 🎅🏻
Home Alone was always one my favorite childhood Christmas movies! Especially Harry and Marv!🤣🤣🤣
At 18:25, it's an SCTV reunion between Catherine O'Hara and John Candy. I loved them both on that show.
If the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles didn't make you fall in love with pizza as a 90'a kid, this certainly did! I love that John Candy and Macaulay were reunited in this after Uncle Buck. Even though they didn't share a scene together, close enough. The funeral story by Candy was completely improvised, which makes it even more hilarious, rest in peace.. Marv's spider death scream is legit. He really had arachnophobia. The greatest crime committed in this movie is certainly... that Kevin didn't even get to eat his highly nutritious Macaroni and Cheese..He is most known for this but also great in other films. "The Good Son" and "My Girl" I highly recommend. "What, now?" "No tomorrow ya egghead yeah now!" 😂
I mean... it doesn't take a lot of work to make kids love pizza. There's some kind of mental switch that doesn't get flipped off until mid-puberty that makes you only want to eat:
French fries, burgers, fried chicken and pizza given the option.
Now to watch "Uncle Buck" -- the movie that led to Macaulay Culkin being cast in this movie in the first place.
*VERY* popular when it came out, like others have said. I was in college at the time. A guy I think I had had one date with, we were talking about this movie, and he said he didn't like it. I thought, "well, that's the end of that!" Didn't go out with him again.
The part where criminal grabs the hot doorknob is a homage to Raiders of the Lost Ark, where the evil guy grabs the red hot medallion and then runs out into the snow to cool his hand.
10:42 that scream never gets old 😂🤣
I'm delighted to see this!
My favourite Home Alone related thing is that Hitman World of Assassination's Paris location has a Christmas mission... Featuring these two bumbling thieves.
You know the crazy fan theory is that some believed that Kevin grows up to become Jigsaw the serial killer from the Saw movies because of the traps he sets up
Addie the Redhead Reindeer!😂
The musical score and the director are the same as Harry Potter. You have to love the combination that John Williams and Chris Columbus make. Magic.
And yes Addie. This became a Christmas classic the instant it came out.
9:53
Addie: Smacks air
Me: Ouch... I felt that
I love this movie so much. I was 19 when this came out and saw it four times at the theater. Lot of great people in this movie. I loved Roberts Blossom as Old Man Marley; he is no longer with us and was quite the character actor. I have seen him in more than a few movies. He was in two movies directed by Steven Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Always. He also had a role in the John Carpenter film Christine, based upon the book by Stephen King.
The fact that 'Old Man Marley' never questions where the rest of Kevin's family is over the course of the movie is a bit counfounding... 🤔
Fun story: We watched this movie last Christmas year for the very FIRST TIME in our lives. And when it came to the booby trap scene, my mom said she was laughing SO HARD that she thought she was going to *pee* her pants! 🤣🤣🤣
This is my favorite Christmas movie ever. I seen this several times when I was a kid 😂.
This is one of my favorite Christmas movies and my favorite part Marv screams like a girl when he got a spider on his face 26:04 😅
0:53 Same director for both first 2 films HP and Home Alone
And Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
Chris Columbus, one of the best! Didn't he also do Christmas Chronicles with Kurt Russel a few years back?
Fun Fact: Apparently Macaulay Culkin STILL calls Catherine O'Hara "Mom"
Fun Fact 2: the Playboy in Buzz's room is REAL, it's issue 7 from july 1989.
Well she's probably better than his actual parents, didn't they spend all the money he earned acting..
I saw the trailer for this in the theater before Child’s Play 2 came on. A whole theater full of people came to watch a horror film and laughed for 2 minutes solid during the commercial for this. If that doesn’t give you an idea of how popular this film was from the start, I don’t know what will
Your little giggles make me so happy 😂
It's probably the most well-liked Christmas movie among families who watch it because the comedy lands with almost everybody -- but A Christmas Story and/or A Christmas Carol are the most Christmas-y Christmas movies.
(Ralphie is every selfish child at Christmas, Scrooge is every curmudgeon who regrets not having cultivated more close bonds with people in hindsight. They bookend the experience of Christmas perfectly.)
This movie is a Classic. Merry Christmas Addie
Yep, this was a Christmas classic from the get-go. It was the biggest box office hit of its year.
From Wikipedia: Home Alone was the number-one film at the box office for 12 consecutive weeks, from its release weekend of November 16-18, 1990, through the weekend of February 1-3, 1991[...] After over nine months into its run, the film had earned 16x its debut weekend and ended up making a final gross of $285,761,243, the top-grossing film of its year in North America. The film is listed in the Guinness World Records as the highest-grossing live-action comedy ever and held the record until it was overtaken by The Hangover Part II in 2011
Fuller, Kevin's cousin who drinks all the soda and wets the bed, is played by Macaulay Culkin's brother Kieran, who played Scott's gay roommate Wallace in _Scott Pilgrim vs. The World_ .
This is the first movie that I have very clear memories of seeing in the theater.
I dont know if you knew this or not. But the scream when the tarantula was put on Daniel Sterns face was done in post production, so as not to scare the spider. ❤
Since you asked, at least here in Greece this movie was a big hit. I watched it in the cinema as a kid and everybody who watched it loved it. I know there were many people who watched it more than once at the cinema. I think I did too. I watched it with friends at least two times, yeah! Then I remember after a year or two it was on TV and ever since it was always at least once on TV.
Having said that, one bit of info you might not know. Here in Greece the whole Santa bringing gifts is more of a January 1st thing than a Dec 25th. Because our "Santa" is based (though not by looks any more lol) to a Greek Orthodox Saint who is celebrated on the 1st of January. Obviously with American culture so powerful many people slowly also give gifts on Christmas, but usually it is mostly for Christmas meals and getting together, than anything else.
Unfortunately as my bday is close by I was often given only a single present for both, some times none lol. Anyway, that's another story.
Great reaction and I know what you mean, the older I get the more I find these movies, touching.
The craziest theory Ive heard about this movie was that the old man was an elderly Kevin 😂
This was one of the first movies I saw in theaters and is one of my go to movies every Christmas. But did we ever find out what Kevin’s parents did to be able to afford that house and the trip to Paris?
Top grossing film of 1990. We all loved it when it came out in theaters.
Omg I was gonna say Addie has never seen Home Alone? A match made in heaven
I always watch these movies just for the traps. It's like some Looney Tunes humor and I love it.
One of the best christmas movies around. Definitely a Classic! The physical comedy bits are funny... even now! Peshi and Stern are hilarious as the wet bandits! Thanks for sharing Addie & Merry Christmas 🎅🌲☃️
8:23 Apparently Buzz’s gf is the art director’s son in a wig. The art director didn’t think it would be good to take a picture of a little girl just to be made fun of.
I watched this on VHS until THE SUMMER.
The old man is my grandfather. He was really awesome.
Fun fact
‘Mini Culkin’ portrays Euronymous in the ‘documentary’ Lords of Chaos, about the Black Metal band Mayhem
People think it’s McCauley. It’s not
all time classic!
Jumpscare in 3....2...1, so cute😂
If you ever watch the movie Uncle Buck (John Hughes movie), keep an eye out for the single scene that gave Chris Columbus (director of this) the idea behind Home Alone.
22:42 22:52 22:56 25:18 lol hahahahahahaha!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Joe Pesci wasn’t allowed to curse like he usually would, but he improvised by spouting cartoony gibberish. His New Jersey accent made it even funnier. Daniel Stern also had me laughing with Santa Claus and his elf (I can actually see that) as well as the chicken joke.
Pesci actually DID bite his finger at the very end. Culkin still has the scar...
For a second, I thought I heard "It's almost time to get burt-fergled!" I was disappointed that was not the case. Lol.
Yes! Such a magical film!
Hello Addie!😊 Macaulay Culkin's little sister Quinn Culkin, briefly appears in the airport scene. The film was an instant classic with a mere $18 million budget, grossing $476 million. Great reactions to the original Home Alone, Addie!!!!🎬👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Since you mention Harry Potter, it's worth pointing out that John Williams did the music for Home Alone and all the Potter movies, while Chris Columbus directed Home Alone and the first two Potter movies, so there will be certain similarities...
Someone probably mentioned this but this movie and the first two Harry Potters were directed by Chris Columbus, which could explain the similarities.
No, it was a MASSIVE movie from the time it came out, and I'm only a year younger than Macaulay and I was once a fairly little blond-haired child, so it was pretty relatable, despite the fact that my mother and I were near the opposite end of the socio-economic spectrum from the McCallisters.
Ah! This movie is so good! Brings back my childhood.
Probably one of the reasons Home Alone and Harry Potter have similar vibes is Chris Columbus directed Home Alone and the first few Harry Potter films. And then of course John Williams is the composer for both.
Great reaction, as always.👏👏You should also watch "Home Alone 2. Lost in New York"
just when i thought Addie couldn’t get any cooler, she whips out the Little Nero’s shirt, so sick 🔥
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Five bags of popcorn
This movie was and still is crazy popular. At least my generation. The second one is just as good. This movie series is like the Grinch Half to watch it at least every couple of years.
I wish I had the wisdom he has in this movie when I was his age. Also have you ever heard the movie theory of Candy being the devil because doesn’t she say she would give her anything to get back to Kevin then he appears?
Hi Addie I subscribed to your channel during your live stream and loved your movies and TV shows reactions
Addie glitching at 21:46 🤣
"Keep the change you filthy animal."
"Merry Christmas, you filthy animal...."
I loved seeing this movie in the theater when it came out
Thanks Addie, had to look it up to be sure. Had no idea Kieran played the cousin
14:56) My Theory has always been🤔that Kevin "borrowed" those mannequins from the Church's Nativity Scene.🙏
The perfect Christmas movie. Great choice!
I watch this every year! 😍
Similarity to Harry Potter storyline? They both are neglected as small children, but I missed the part where Kevin M goes to wizard school 😂
If you ever want to put a spin on a re-watch, you could do the reaction "altered" however that applies to you.
I'll die on the hill of 1&2 are mandatory around Christmas.