Home Alone 3

"There's a new kid on the block."

1997 1h 42m EN

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5.3

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36%

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4.6

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★5.3TMDB · 3,382🥫36%Rotten Tomatoes★4.6IMDB · 137,433

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Synopsis

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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.

“There's a new kid on the block.”

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Cast

Alex D. Linz
Alex Pruitt
Olek Krupa
Peter Beaupre
Rya Kihlstedt
Alice Ribbons
Lenny Von Dohlen
Burton Jernigan
David Thornton
Earl Unger
Haviland Morris
Karen Pruitt
Kevin Kilner
Jack Pruitt
Marian Seldes
Mrs. Hess

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Raja Gosnell
Writers: John Hughes
Languages: Polish, English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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29 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Polish, English.

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3 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Home Alone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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4 / 8

CAST

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208+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Raja Gosnell, shot by Julio Macat. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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6 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Nick Glennie-Smith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Malcolm Campbell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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8 / 8

CAST

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Alex D. Linz and Olek Krupa and Rya Kihlstedt carry the top of the cast.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Raja Gosnell directs. Julio Macat behind the camera. Nick Glennie-Smith scores. Malcolm Campbell cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Polish, English.

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129 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: Polish, English.
3Part of the "Home Alone Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
4208+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
5Directed by Raja Gosnell, shot by Julio Macat. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
6Original score by Nick Glennie-Smith. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
7Editor Malcolm Campbell shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
8Alex D. Linz and Olek Krupa and Rya Kihlstedt carry the top of the cast.
9Marketing tagline: "There's a new kid on the block.".
10IMDB entry: tt0119303 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 21 themes, including "winter", "burglar", "bravery", "computer chip".
12Released under 19 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Julio Macat
Original score: Nick Glennie-Smith
Editing: Malcolm Campbell
Production design: Henry Bumstead
Costume design: Jodie Lynn Tillen
Makeup / hair: Lucia Mace
Sound: Bill W. Benton
Stunt coordinator: Freddie Hice
Runtime: 102 min · 1h 42m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $32,000,000
Box office: $79,082,515
Return: 247% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG
IMDB: Home Alone 3 (1997)
Rotten Tomatoes: 36% 🥫 Rotten
IMDB rating: 4.6/10 · 137,433 votes
MPAA: PG

Awards

3 nominations total

Part of

Home Alone Collection

This series of movies sees a child accidentally left behind by their family during Christmas to fend for themselves against burglars.

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Kamurai2020-08-27
★ 6/10
Good watch, probably won't watch again, but can recommend. This kid definitely isn't Macaulay Culkin, but Alex D. Linz was able to carry this movie, and he did it again in "Max Keeble's Big Move". I'll be honest I re-watched this because "Hot Ones" mentioned Scarlett Johansson was in it, and I couldn't remember that. She has a bit role, but even back then (possibly unrefined, the role didn't have a lot to work with) she was a big personality in a small role. She has one, brief, powerful scene that would really be worth remembering: most of it is the messing up the burglars. This has a very different vibe than the first 2 movies. While Kevin was isolated and unable to get help, Alex starts by doing everything right to get help, but no one believes him so he feels forced to "do the right thing". However it manifests in almost a psychotic fashion. Of course, almost everything that happens in this movie should kill someone, but doesn't. It also had a very easy out: at any time Alex could give the chip up, and it would be over, the bad guys leave the country: he's heavily volunteering for this carnage. Kevin was being targeted, he saw their faces and was actually defending himself and his home because the "wet bandits" were coming for HIM. Ultimately it's fun and charming, and interesting what the limits of technology were back in 1997 with cellphones and pagers, RC cars with block long range, but not wireless cameras, but remote control gizmos that can turn on the neighbors tv. The biggest problem I have with it is that his brother's bird is basically as smart a person, having conversations, and taking bribes (or insisting on being paid at least), and the worst bit is that I know there are people with birds as smart as that. I'm not sure if it would be a Conure, but I don't deal in parrots. That said, it's not overly hilarious, it's not bad, but it's just not great either.

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