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Home Alone (1990) -nominated for multiple Oscars-

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Willem Dafoe
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starring...
Joe Pesci
John Candy
Daniel Stern
and introducing Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McAllister

Happy 30th Birthday Macaulay Culkin!

Home Alone has held up very well. Where would you rank it on your Christmas movie list?
MSCAg
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My wife wouldn't let us open presents if we didn't watch Home Alone at least twice between Thanksgiving+1 and Christmas.
Smart Dude
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1a. Christmas Vacation
1b. A Christmas Story



Somewhere in the top 10: Home Alone
Willem Dafoe
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Yeah, we have to pop in the VHS about every 3rd Christmas....but I'm sure I'll be getting the 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD this Christmas though. GREAT score. Will be digitally remastered too.
astros45
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Roy Rogers
Stive
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John Candy


Am I missing something? What part did he play in this movie?
Another Doug
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Die Hard and Home Alone are basically the same movie.
Another Doug
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Am I missing something? What part did he play in this movie?


He was one of the guys the mom hitched a ride with. Leader of a polka band or something.
TXAG 05
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He was in the polka band with the van who gave Catherine O Hara a ride home
Whos Juan
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Am I missing something? What part did he play in this movie?



IIRC, he drove the McAllisters back to Chicago to get home. He was some polka band leader or something.
Stive
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Gotcha. I'd forgotten about that. I thought the OP had gotten Home Alone and Uncle Buck mixed up.
62strat
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1a. Christmas Vacation
1b. A Christmas Story
hah how true is this.
DCC99
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Am I missing something? What part did he play in this movie?


I think he gave the mom a ride home. He was in some kind of band.
Cinco Ranch Aggie
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Watched it all the way through for the first time last Christmas. Will probably do so again with my 4-yr-old daughter this year.

I'd rank

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Texaggie7nine
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Ya I always wondered if Hughes was playing off Planes Trains and Automobiles when he cast Candy for that part.

TXAG 05
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Watched it all the way through for the first time last Christmas


Just curious, but how had you never seen it before? I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out
Swarely
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Am I missing something? What part did he play in this movie?



he was the leader of the polka band that drove kevins mom home.
Philo B 93
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Wasn't John Candy in a polka band that gave the neurotic mom a ride back to the kid?
Hobo Zombie
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No, however, I'm pretty sure he was the leader of a polka band that gave Kevin's mom a ride home.
Texaggie7nine
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HAHA, you made an NA's mom joke.

Cinco Ranch Aggie
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Just curious, but how had you never seen it before? I remember seeing it in the theater when it came out

I believe it came out around Christmas 1990, when I was graduating from A&M. Had a lot of other far higher priorities at the time than seeing what looked like a fingernails-on-the-chalkboard movie.

Then there was just never a desire to watch it until last year when my daughter was nominally old enough to watch it. The same has applied to other classics like the first two Toy Story movies, many of the other Disney movies, or movies that weren't geared toward adult males.

edit - I had actually seen bits and pieces of Home Alone on various TV stations over the years. Last year when I finally watched it from beginning to end, I was pleasantly surprised.

So yeah, we'll be watching this one each Christmas from now on, to go along with the others I listed above and also the Jim Carrey and classic animated Grinch movies.

[This message has been edited by Cinco Ranch Aggie (edited 8/26/2010 7:06p).]
NITESIDE
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If you can watch the second half of that movie and not laugh...you are dead.
LHIOB
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Gus Polinski - Polka King of the MidWest
jetch17
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is Macauly Culkin still railing Mila Kunis in real life?
Willem Dafoe
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link to prove he pounded her?
jetch17
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Culkin has dated actress Mila Kunis since May 2002. Despite rumors of an engagement in 2006, they have no current plans to marry. They currently divide their time between New York City, Los Angeles and Glendale, California.


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married actress Rachel Miner in 1998 (they divorced in 2002), and has been in a relationship with actress Mila Kunis for eight years.




Dough
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FYI, John Candy was in the Polka band that drove the mother back to Chicago.
chick79
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Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie.........
TXAG 05
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Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie.........



Uh, yeah, it is
astros45
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yes it is

Texaggie7nine
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Die Hard is NOT a Christmas movie.........



Timeline took place in or around Christmas? - Check

Had christmas music in the score? - Check

It's a Christmas movie.

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