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16 Dec 2024

IFI@BrieryGap: Home Alone

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16 Dec 2024

Time

5pm & 8pm

Rating PG

Christmas at Briery Gap: IFI@BrieryGap: Home Alone.

The star vehicle for Macaulay Culkin who plays eight-year-old Kevin McAllister, accidentally left behind when his family flies off to France for Christmas, features such memorable scenes as him laying waste to the kitchen with cooking efforts, jumping up and down on his parents’ bed and, of course, wiring up the house to defy the two bumbling burglars, Harry and Marv.

The film’s writer John Hughes, who sadly died in 2009, believed in writing scripts that kids would enjoy. As he said, ‘I don’t think of kids as a lower form of the human species’, and his hilarious script, directed by Chris Columbus (who went on to direct two Harry Potter titles), achieves that rare quality of being a great film for all the family.

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I was going away on vacation and making a list of everything I didn’t want to forget. I thought, ‘Well, I’d better not forget my kids.’ Then I thought, ‘What if I left my 10-year-old son at home? What would he do?’ ‘’ One what-if led to another

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John Hughes: How Home Alone came to be

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