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In order to watch the full version on television, the time slot is extended to two and a half hours. In the beginning of the novelization, a prologue, which ends up being Marv's nightmare in prison, he and Harry sneak away from the cops and return to Kevin's house to seek revenge on Kevin. Harry and Marv end up triggering extra traps that Kevin had set up in the garage. Kevin watches as Marv ends up triggering a trap where a running lawnmower falls on his head . As in the novelization of the first film, the McCallisters live in Oak Park, Illinois and the crooks are named as Harry Lime and Marv Murchins. The novel also takes place one year after the events of the first film, but the ages of Kevin and his siblings are given as being two years older than the first film.
It all works, from Curry and Fricker right down to the gate attendant at O’Hare airport and the piano player at the Christmas pageant, who doesn’t even have any lines. And they’re not just there to flesh out Kevin’s view of the world, though that’s plainly their narrative purpose. Each of these characters—like Joan Cusack’s neck-braced nerd in Sixteen Candles or Jonathan Schmock’s snooty maître d’ in Ferris Bueller—has their own bright spark of life and motivation. Ross Tanenbaum is a writer, editor, and movie junkie from Potomac, Maryland. He is a recent graduate from the University of Maryland where he studied English and Film. He spends his free time watching movies and TV, browsing through memes, and going to amusement parks to ride rollercoasters.
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Kevin reconciles with his family, and goes to Central Park to give one of his turtledoves to the pigeon lady, cementing their friendship. The next morning, the family oversleeps and must rush to the airport. Kevin is with them, but he becomes separated from them while carrying Peter's bag and accidentally boards a flight to New York City. Upon arrival, he decides to tour the city, but becomes frightened by a homeless woman tending to pigeons in Central Park. He uses Peter's credit card to check in at the Plaza Hotel, not knowing that the Wet Bandits have also reached the city after escaping from prison.
I can’t lie though, this dude’s Pizza Hut commercial from 1995 was funny.🎄If Marv catches Kevin there’s a chance the kid will live. I saw this movie in theaters as a kid in 1992 and have watched it almost yearly ever since. I have a lot of feels about the film and recently delivered a presentation on my analysis of it. Here are my expanded lecture notes with some supporting clips and images from the talk.
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Estimated delivery dates - opens in a new window or tab include seller's handling time, origin ZIP Code, destination ZIP Code and time of acceptance and will depend on shipping service selected and receipt of cleared payment. Principal photography took place from December 9, 1991 to May 1, 1992, over a course of 144 days; the film was shot in Winnetka, Illinois; O'Hare International Airport in Chicago; Evanston, Illinois; and New York City. According to the director, Chris Columbus, Donald Trump, the owner of the Plaza Hotel at the time, allowed the crew to shoot scenes in the hotel lobby in exchange for a cameo in the film in addition to the standard fee for film productions.
Curry was, of course, born to serve that dynamic, and Schneider is gamely deployed as the put-upon underling, but they’re far from the only interesting faces in this film’s particular New York landscape. Dana Ivey is remarkable as a desk clerk who carefully builds a façade of elegant composure only to let it crumble later. Eddie Bracken is wonderfully deployed as Mr. Duncan, the owner of a toy store which serves as one of the film’s centerpieces. Then of course, there’s the great Brenda Fricker as the Pigeon Lady, a character who serves the same purpose as Roberts Blossom in the original film, but whom Fricker nevertheless makes her own through a deep, contemplative warmth.
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Meanwhile, Kevin goes to his uncle's townhouse, only to find it vacant and undergoing renovations. In Central Park, Kevin encounters and eventually befriends the pigeon lady, who takes him to Carnegie Hall. She explains how her life collapsed when her lover left her; Kevin encourages her to trust people again. After considering her advice that he perform a good deed to make up for his misdeeds, and recalling Mr. Duncan's intent to donate to the hospital, he decides to prevent Harry and Marv from robbing the store. On Christmas Eve, Kevin visits a toy store whose kindly owner, Mr. Duncan, plans to donate the day's sale proceeds to a children's hospital.
The audience is then given another great "KEVIN!" shriek from Catherine O'Hara. After shutting down some boorish steam room behavior from 2 older men we’re really feeling Kevin’s respect for Women. But never forget that he’s able to make his second escape from the Bandits by pinching a woman’s ass on a Manhattan street in broad daylight.
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While the film featured the first film's theme song "Somewhere in My Memory", it also contained its own theme entitled "Christmas Star". Two soundtrack albums of the film were released on November 20, 1992, with one featuring Williams' score and the other featuring contemporary Christmas songs featured in the film. Ten years later, a 2-disc Deluxe Edition of the film score soundtrack was released.
Hughes has to find something else for Kevin to experience, something that begins as alluring but quickly becomes frightening the more he realizes that absolute freedom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. That means that, once again, Kevin has to be surrounded by a crop of skeptical adults, and in true Hughes fashion, they all must be, in some way or another, complete weirdos. This is a Home Alone 2 quote is a line that reminds fans that the franchise has quite a lot of dark and even mature aspects to it at times, and that's a part of the reason that it's stuck with people for so long.
Kevin slips away, calls the police from a pay phone to alert them to the pair's presence, and flees toward Central Park. Harry and Marv catch him after he slips on ice and prepare to kill him, but the pigeon lady throws a bucket of birdseed onto them, attracting a massive flock of pigeons and incapacitating the pair until the police arrive to arrest them. Kevin provides photographic and tape-recorded evidence against them, and Mr. Duncan recovers the donation money and finds a note from Kevin explaining why he broke the window. The family arrives in New York, and Kate, remembering Kevin's fondness for Christmas trees, finds him making a wish at the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. Earlier, upon landing in Miami, the McCallister family discover that Kevin is missing and file a police report. After the police trace Peter's credit card, the family flies immediately to New York.
When he does so she furiously turns around and punches out Marv (who she’s interacted with before) then Kevin says Harry actually did and he gets jacked up too. It’s a broad comedy, nothing truly creepy intended, it’s a reasonable, if weird & hack-y, gag. When Rob Schneider’s bellhop character, Cedric, first shows Kevin to his suite he stalls awkwardly for a tip before leaving.
Additionally, it achieved the highest opening weekend for a Chris Columbus film and would hold that record until it was surpassed by Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in 2001. It started off better than Home Alone, grossing $100 million in 24 days compared to 33 days for the original. However the final box office gross was lower with $173.6 million in the United States and Canada and a worldwide total of $359 million, compared to $476 million for the first film. The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 11, 1992, and topped the country's box office that weekend.
This funny reaction shows some childhood innocence and that while Kevin is very clever, American history isn't his area of expertise. This line is an extension of the classic "Merry Christmas ya filthy animal" from the previous movie, adding a little extra Happy New Year part in keeping with the film's goal of making everything from Home Alone even bigger. Kevin's dad is the only person who recognizes the severity of the situation.
There, Schneider became known for characters like annoying office worker Richard “The Richmeister” Laymer and unabashed nudist The Sensitive Naked Man. Alongside SNL contemporaries that included Adam Sandler and David Spade, Schneider was nominated for a total of three Emmy Awards during his SNL tenure. Lost in New York, by necessity, has to change much of this dynamic, at least in the film’s first and second acts. It begins with the familiar, then once again catapults young Kevin into the unfamiliar, which means he can no longer be surrounded by the same Chicago suburb, the same local market, the same church where a kindly old neighbor befriends him.
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