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"Home Alone" is actually kind of a terrible movie.
There's multiple plot holes big enough to drive a train through. https://twitter.com/labradorrose/status/1199015097152225281
There's multiple plot holes big enough to drive a train through. https://twitter.com/labradorrose/status/1199015097152225281
Even accepting as Gospel the admittedly far-fetched premise of: "Parents travel internationally without noticing their kid is missing":
GIANT PLOT HOLE #1: International flights from Chicago to Europe leave in the evening, not morning.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #1: International flights from Chicago to Europe leave in the evening, not morning.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #2: A $1.6M house in Winnetka doesn't even have a rudimentary burglar alarm.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #3: Mom frantically calls police to report... essentially... a missing kid.
Same hardass cops who chase an 8-year-old halfway across town for shoplifting a toothbrush go to house and just give up looking for Kevin when he doesn't answer the door.
Same hardass cops who chase an 8-year-old halfway across town for shoplifting a toothbrush go to house and just give up looking for Kevin when he doesn't answer the door.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #4: Hoping to get back to Chicago as quickly as possible, Mom gets on a plane from a major hub in Dallas to a much smaller regional airport in Scranton for no apparent reason.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #4: The Pizza boy gets "shot at" by "Kevin" and... just goes back to work? Regardless, he doesn't call the cops AFTER BEING SHOT AT... IN WINNETKA.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #5: Kevin knows exactly when Harry & Marv are going to rob his house, and has hours of lead time...
...but doesn't call the cops until after they've broken in AND run through all the traps.
...but doesn't call the cops until after they've broken in AND run through all the traps.
GIANT PLOT HOLE #6: What, exactly, was the point of the glue/oscillating fan/feathers booby trap?
To in no way slow down Joe Pesci, in the event he took an extremely specific route...
...for maximum sight gag potential?
To in no way slow down Joe Pesci, in the event he took an extremely specific route...
...for maximum sight gag potential?
GIANT PLOT HOLE #7: Wet Bandits sustain multiple injuries, each of which would result in broken bones or death in middle-aged men of average build, but both are rendered immediately unconscious by single blow from a snow shovel wielded by a septuagenarian.
