Home Alone, Christmas family comedy film released in 1990 about the adventures of Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy, played by Macaulay Culkin, who has to fend for himself and thwart the attempts of a pair of bungling burglars trying to break into his family’s house after he is inadvertently left behind when his family departs for a holiday trip to France. The movie, written by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus, is considered a Christmas classic, and it made Culkin one of the most well-known child actors of the 1990s.
