The Home Alone Movies series is a beloved family comedy franchise centered on young kids who are accidentally left home alone and must outsmart burglars using clever traps and creative schemes. Beginning with the classic Home Alone in 1990, the series has expanded into several sequels and spin-offs, featuring new characters and chaotic adventures.
Home Alone Movies: Hilarious Traps, Holiday Chaos, and Family Fun
Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Plot:
“A family comedy without the family.”
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
2. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Plot:
“He’s up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.”
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad’s credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he’s determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Stars: Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt
Plot:
“There’s a new kid on the block.”
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Stars: Erick Avari, Barbara Babcock, French Stewart
Plot:
“Bigger house. Badder baddies. Bigger and better laughs.”
Kevin McCallister’s parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father’s rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie’s mansion.
5. Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
Stars: Christian Martyn, Eddie Steeples, Jodelle Ferland
Plot:
“The scariest house you have ever seen!”
10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
6. Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Stars: Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates
Plot:
“No parents. No problem.”
After being left at home by himself for the holidays, 10-year-old Max Mercer must work to defend his home from a married couple who tries to steal back a valuable heirloom.