Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York promotional movie poster
Directed by	Chris Columbus
Produced by	John Hughes
Written by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin Joe Pesci Daniel Stern John Heard Tim Curry Brenda Fricker Catherine O'Hara
Music by	John Williams
Cinematography	Julio Macat (director of photography)
Editing by	Raja Gosnell
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	November 20, 1992
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	?
Preceded by	Home Alone
Followed by	Home Alone 3
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the highly successful 1990 film Home Alone, written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Dana Ivey, and Brenda Fricker co-star.

Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks and Donald Trump make cameo appearances. The movie was filmed in Winnetka, Illinois, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was star Culkin's hometown at the time).

Home Alone 3 followed in 1997 and Home Alone 4 followed in 2002; both without Macaulay Culkin or any of the original cast.

Taglines:
He's up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.
Yikes! I did it again!
First, he was home alone, now he's lost in New York

[edit] Plot

Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, who once again is separated from his family during one of their Christmas travels. This time, however, his family travels to Miami, Florida. At O'Hare International Airport, Kevin loses sight of his family, and gets on a different flight to LaGuardia Airport in New York City. While there, he decides to make the most of "the greatest accident of his life". Kevin befriends the owner of a toy store and a homeless "pigeon lady" (played by Brenda Fricker). Kevin uses his dad's credit card to check into The Plaza Hotel.

At the hotel, the concierge (played by Tim Curry) gets suspicious about Kevin's origins, and discovers that Kevin has committed credit card fraud. When Kevin learns that his nemeses (formerly know as the "Wet Bandits", and now known as the "Sticky Bandits") from the first film, Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), have escaped from prison and plan to shoplift in a huge toy store at midnight, he knows what he needs to do.

The traps Kevin uses on the shoplifters are more elaborate, and the setting this time is his out-of-town relative's renovated apartment. He calls these plans "Operation Ho-Ho-Ho". Outside the toy store, Kevin sets up a seesaw. When Harry and Marv run outside to chase after Kevin, Harry lands on one end and Marv lands on the other end. Marv's massive build throws Harry high into the air, and then Harry lands on top of -- and smashes -- a car parked on the street.

At the apartment, Harry tries to jump on a high ladder, but slips off, and lands on his back because the rungs are coated in liquid soap. He then has tools dropped on his head from an overhead bag after he opens a door. He then sets his head on fire (again) with a ceiling-mounted flamethrower, and then tries to douse it in the toilet, not knowing that there is kerosene in it. He then falls with another ladder when the ladder breaks under his weight -- because Kevin sawed part of it earlier -- taking Harry with it and knocking him out and almost breaking his fingers and teeth.

While alone, Marv has several staples fired into his face and body from a staple gun hidden behind the front door every time he turns the doorknob. He also falls through an entire floor into the basement, slipping on soap, and sliding into shelves with various paint cans. He even has a bag of cement fall onto his head. Perhaps the worst injury that he sustains is a near-lethal electrocution while trying to wash the paint off in the utility sink, to which Kevin had hooked a welder to ecectrify it. He builds a tower out of various items and climbs out of the basement through a hole in the floor just in time to see Harry and the ladder come down.

Along with Marv, Harry ducks some paint cans, but is knocked down into the basement by a large metal pipe. The pipe is then cut down by Kevin, and it rolls down the stairs, and lands on the two shoplifters. Harry and Marv are crushed between a door and a wall after a tool chest rolls down the penthouse stairs, and breaks the door off its hinges. Finally, after trying to climb down an outside rope, Kevin lights it up (the rope was also doused in kerosene). Frantically climbing up, the two shoplifters fall down, and break apart a scaffold, which launches cans of varnish into the air, splattering all over the shoplifters.

Even though Harry and Marv capture Kevin, the "pigeon lady" rescues him by throwing birdseed onto the criminals, which sticks to the varnish. This causes dozens of pigeons to swarm the two frightened shoplifters. Kevin later sets off some firecrackers, which he bought earlier, alerting the police. They arrive, and as the shoplifters are arrested, one of the cops sees photos of Harry and Marv shoplifting at the toy store.

Meanwhile, Kevin's mother (Catherine O'Hara) is frantically searching New York City for Kevin. She stumbles across two police officers, and while talking to them, she comes to realize where she thinks he might be. The policemen drive her to Rockefeller Center, where Kevin is looking at the enormous Christmas tree there. Eventually, she finds Kevin.

The next morning, Christmas Day, Mr. Duncan (the owner of Duncan's Toy Chest) sends a whole truckload of presents to Kevin and his family at the Plaza Hotel. Kevin sees the two turtledoves. He goes to see the "pigeon lady" in Central Park, and gives her one of the turtledoves. At the same time, the bellboy (Rob Schneider) comes to the McCallisters' hotel room with Kevin's room service bill. Buzz looks at the bill, and goes to tell their father. This is when Kevin's father shouts out, "Kevin! You spent $967 on room service?!". Kevin runs back to the hotel, and the credits roll.

[edit] Original Soundtrack

• Title: Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (Original Soundtrack Album)
• Label: Fox Records
• Released in: 1992

1. "All Alone On Christmas" (4:14) (Darlene Love)
2. "A Holly Jolly Christmas" (2:14) (Alan Jackson)
3. "Somewhere In My Memory" (3:58) (Bette Midler, composed by John Williams, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse)
4. "My Christmas Tree" (2:35) (Home Alone Children's Choir)
5. "Sleigh Ride" (3:44) (TLC)
6. "Silver Bells" (4:15) (Atlantic Starr)
7. "Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas" (2:40) (John Williams)
8. "Jingle Bell Rock" (2:09) (Bobby Helms)
9. "Cool Jerk (Christmas Mix)" (2:39) (The Capitols)
10. "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" (2:14) (Johnny Mathis)
11. "Christmas Star" (3:16) (John Williams)
12. "O Come All Ye Faithful" (3:26) (Lisa Fischer)

[edit] Box office

The movie opened to $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, averaging $14,008 per site.^[1] While it started off better than the original, the final box office gross was much less.^[2] $173,585,516 was taken in domestically and $185,406,165 overseas.

[edit] Tie-ins

As with the first Home Alone movie, video games based on the sequel were released by THQ for such systems as the Sega Genesis, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and personal computers, mostly in late 1992. A separate hand-held game was released by Tiger Electronics.

The Talkboy handheld tape recorder that Kevin used in the film was actually a non-working prop. A huge letter-writing campaign by young fans of the film led Tiger Electronics to produce a fully functional retail version of the recorder in 1993, when the film was first released on home video.

[edit] References to other media

Like the film Angels with Filthy Souls in the first film, Kevin's hotel video rental Angels with Even Filthier Souls is not a movie but rather specially-created footage. Both movies were a homage to the 1939 film Angels with Dirty Faces. The cheating woman in Even Filthier Souls is played by Claire Hoak.

[edit] See Also

• Home Alone House

[edit] New York sights

The following landmarks and other New York City points of interest are seen in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York:

• LaGuardia Airport
• Central Park
• Battery Park
• Statue of Liberty
• Chinatown
• World Trade Center (This scene was edited out of post-2001 TV broadcasts out of respect for the victims of the 9/11 attacks in which the two buildings were destroyed. This scene is included on the DVD.)
• Plaza Hotel
• Times Square
• Fulton Fish Market
• 5th Avenue
• Rockefeller Center
• Radio City Music Hall
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Manhattan Bridge
• Queensboro Bridge
• Chrysler Building
• Empire State Building
• Carnegie Hall

[edit] References

1. ^ Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Weekend Box Office Results. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
2. ^ Home Alone Weekend Box Office Results. Retrieved on 2007-12-24.

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