Kevin McCallister - the main character of the movie "Home Alone". Actor biography

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In the New Year holidays, many people remember the most successful work of Hollywood called "Home Alone". The main character of the picture was Kevin McAllister. What was the creation of the nineties of the last century and its main star?

Movie info

The author of the picture was John Hughes. It took him several years to realize his plan. Directed by Chris Columbus. The film remains the highest-grossing Christmas production in the American film industry. The film cost $18 million and raised over $400 million.

After the success of the picture, three more sequels were created. Home Alone in 1992 was a sequel to the first film. Other works have become completely independent with a separate plot and cast.

Home Alone (1990 film) received numerous nominations and awards. Most of all, critics appreciated the musical accompaniment of the film and the game of the protagonist.

Plot of the picture

Home Alone (1990 film) begins with chaos in the McAllister family's home. Adults and children make noisescreaming, laughing. All of them are preparing to spend the Christmas weekend in Paris. The owners of the house are Peter and Kate. It was very difficult to understand from the film how many children they had, since relatives with their offspring joined the McCallister family. In total, there were eleven children in the house, one of whom was eight-year-old Kevin McAllister.

In the evening the boy quarreled with his parents and was forced to sleep in the attic. During the night there was an electrical problem that caused the clock to fail. As a result, everyone woke up later than it was necessary for normal training. All family members were in such a hurry that they completely forgot about the punished Kevin.

Children with adults left for the airport, from where they were supposed to fly to Paris. On the plane, the mother discovers that her son is missing. The Christmas weekend turned sour as all the parents' thoughts were on Kevin being home alone.

Meanwhile, the boy woke up and realized that his dream of the disappearance of the family had come true. He does all sorts of things, looks around his older brother's room, does some shopping and has fun.

The serenity ends when the hero realizes that two criminals want to rob his parents' house. He devises a plan to prevent the robbery. Not without the help of an elderly neighbor, he manages to neutralize the criminals who are taken away by the police. On Christmas Day, the mother returns home, to which the lonely son is insanely happy. Soon the whole family is reunited.

McAllister Family

There were four adults in the family - this is Peter with Kate and Leslie withFrank. Now it's time to deal with the kids.

Underage family members:

• Kevin McAllister is the main character.
• Buzz is the older brother of the protagonist.
• Megan is Kevin's sister who was worried about him, unlike the rest of the kids.
• Jeff is the red-haired brother.
• Linnie is the sister who wore braces.
• Fuller is the pissing cousin who caused Kevin to sleep in the attic.

The less memorable children were named Rod, Tracy, Sondra, Brooke, Heizer.

Main character

Kevin McCallister was not known for being accommodating, he did not like that everyone in the family considered him small. The boy wanted to be heard. Since this did not happen, he dreamed of being alone and living the way he wanted.

Left alone, he realized that he had to fight his fears. He succeeded, because he was able to go down to the basement, chat with a terrible neighbor, and oppose the bandits.

And yet, at heart, he remained a child waiting for a miracle at Christmas. The main event for him was the appearance of his mother and all relatives.

Film critics and the audience were delighted with the image and those who embodied it on the screens. Who played Kevin McCallister?

Actor

The lead actor was born on August 26, 1980 in New York. His birth name was Macaulay Carson Culkin. In honor of the writer and general. He became famous for his participation in several box office films andwas considered one of the most successful child actors in Hollywood.

His father, Christopher Cornelius, was a former Broadway actor who became a minister of the Catholic Church. Mother, Patricia Brentrap, worked as a telephone operator. Parents lived in a civil marriage. In total, they had seven children, some of them connected their lives with cinema.

Macaulay first appeared on stage at the age of four, he played in the Philharmonic. At the age of five, the boy received a cameo role in the film "At the Midnight Hour". Then there were several more works with his participation. A real breakthrough in his career was the role of Kevin McCallister. The boy's biography changed dramatically at the age of ten. His father, who had little interest in the child, became his manager. The man was more attracted to fees.

Big money led to disagreements between the spouses, the producers did not want to consider Macaulay's candidacy because of the inflated requests of the manager's father. The actor decided to take a break from his career.

Later he worked on theatrical productions, starred in several films, tried his hand in music, starred in commercials. But this did not allow him to achieve his former recognition. In 2017, he joined the cast of a new film directed by Seth Green.