In this movie Kevin has been a pain the day before they go away and is made to sleep in the atteck. The next day when his sister is doing a head count their next door boy comes over and he is...

In this movie Kevin has been a pain the day before they go away and is made to sleep in the atteck. The next day when his sister is doing a head count their next door boy comes over and he is counted for Kevin who is still asleep. Kevin later in the movie finds himself knowing that his house is going to be robbed and so he goes and sets up traps all over the house for the robbers. He ends up getting away but he finds that he gets cought in his next door neighbor's house and the man in which they were all scared of comes and saves him. The robbers then get taken to jail by the police. Now and forever a favorite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realizes he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries the film. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. --Tom Keogh --This text refers to the VHS Tape edition.