re: Let's Overanalyze "Home Alone" and "Home Alone 2"

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She could’ve rented a car in Dallas and driven home in less than 15 hrs.

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Baw. This is 1992. Ain’t no woman driving 15 hours by herself with only a road atlas at best.

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Ain’t no woman driving 15 hours by herself with only a road atlas at best.

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She could’ve hired a fare driver then.

This always bothered me. In the timeline of the movie, they get to Paris on Tuesday. (Kate says the flight home is three days away on Friday which is Christmas Day.) She bribes the couple for the ticket to Dallas on Wednesday, gets to Scranton on Thursday, then leaves with Candy and his guys and arrives Friday morning. That means they left Scranton sometime Thursday night, about a 12 hr drive if I recall correctly. So should’ve rented a car or driver on Wednesday evening when she got to Dallas and been home before Kevin even left the house to go to Church, even conservatively as that’s only a 15 hr drive.

It's kind of weird to think about this movie in the cell phone age. The wife flies to multiple airports alone, rides in a truck with a bunch of strange men, then arrives home to see that their son is safe without the husband having any idea. Meanwhile, the husband and remaining children take a flight halfway across the world, and the wife just like "Oh yeah, forgot about that. Hey".

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at the grocery store, Kevin bought a carton of orange juice, a carton of milk, loaf of bread, TV dinner, army men, big pack of toilet paper, large container of tide, snuggies drier sheets, mac & cheese, Reynolds wrap - all for 19.83

Modern prices
Milk - 4.00
OJ - 4.00
Wrap - 4.00
Tide - 12.00
Army men - 4.00
TV Dinner - 3.00
TP - 3.00
Mac and cheese - 3.00
Drier sheets - 4.00

41 dollars total - almost right at inflation, so…that’s accurate

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This should probably be updated

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while we’re overanalyzing the movie, I’d like to bring this home designers plans into question. My wife and I agree in the movie when he runs out the door to check that his parents cars were still home, that the garage was on the side of the house, not directly behind the house as depicted here.

I bring into question Exhibit A:

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The garage is definitely not attached to the house. So those plans you posted are not accurate IMO.

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Those were drawn up to be a more "modernized" version of the McCallister house, not the plans for the actual home in Winnetka.

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I told my wife today I think this is the year I show this movie to my 6 year old daughter. I'm really hoping she enjoys it.

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My son was 6 when he first saw it. He was pretty meh about it, except the spider on the face scene, that had him in histerics.

The one thing I'd caution you about, the scene where Kevin meets drunk Santa who is smoking and offers tic tacs as candy, pretty much giving away that Santa isn't real, they are actors. If you want her to still believe in Santa Claus for one or two more years, you may want to hold off on this movie.

They acknowledge in the scene that he knows he isn’t the real Santa.

Yep they knew back when they wrote the script they had better give themselves an out on that.