Home Alone 3
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| Directed by | Raja Gosnell |
| Produced by | Ricardo Mestres |
| Written by | John Hughes |
| Starring | Alex D. Linz Olek Krupa Rya Kihlstedt Lenny von Dohlen David Thornton Haviland Morris |
| Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | December 12, 1997 |
| Running time | 102 min |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Home Alone Home Alone 2 |
| Followed by | Home Alone 4 |
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Home Alone 3 is a 1997 film starring Alex D. Linz.
Home Alone 3 is a sequel to Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It was followed by Home Alone 4.
The film was written by John Hughes and directed by Raja Gosnell, who edited Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
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[edit] Plot
Home Alone 3 is a comedy in which a young child, Alex Pruett, is left home alone, because he is sick. Meanwhile, four spies working for a North Korean terrorist organization are sent by their boss to obtain a top-secret microchip that can act as a cloaking device for a missile. They succeed in obtaining the chip and hide it in a remote controlled car, but a luggage mix up at the airport lands it in the hands of Alex. The spies trace the car to Alex's neighborhood, where they begin systematically searching each house during the day when nobody's home... except Alex. The kid catches them in action inside the houses, and calls the police, but they manage to escape in the nick of time. This occurs twice, and eventually the police think that the child is faking (as in The Boy Who Cried Wolf). Thus, the young boy is left to deal with them again. The mother leaves him home alone again, which was accidentally in the first two, the kid sets a series of booby-traps, waging a battle on the four criminals. The four robbers are finally caught at the end of the film.
[edit] Criticism
The movie is seen by most as a cheap cash-in, having absolutely no connections to the previous films other than the vague theme of a lone kid fighting unintelligent robbers. The only slightest connections made from this film to the other Home Alones was that it was set in Chicago and they show a very brief glimpse of the home that the first two Home Alones were in. It is notable, however, that respected movie critic Roger Ebert gave the film a more enthusiastic rating than the previous two Home Alone films [1].
The film was a major box office disaster, and was not popular on home video either[citation needed]. This film is commonly seen as when the Home Alone series jumped the shark. With this film, the series was seen to fall to B-movie status, and the subsequent Home Alone 4 was a straight-to-video release.
[edit] Characters
The main characters include:
- Alex Pruitt — (Alex D. Linz) an eight-year-old kid living in suburban Chicago who had been home sick from school receiving chicken pox. He has a pet mouse named Doris.
- Peter Beaupre — (Olek Krupa) leader of the four robbers.
- Alice Ribbons — (Rya Kihlstedt) one of the four robbers.
- Burton Jernigan — (Lenny Von Dohlen) one of the four robbers.
- Earl Unger — (David Thornton) one of the four robbers.
- Karen Pruitt — (Haviland Morris) Alex's mother.
- Jack Pruitt — (Kevin Kilner) Alex's father, who had a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio to see his boss. On the day he was supposed to leave Chicago, his plane was delayed as Stan said, "Dad missed his plane".
- Mrs. Hess — (Marian Seldes) Alex's neighbor. When she was about to return home in Chicago, she had the same bag as the spies, which had the toy car. Her bag had a sourdough bread. When she returned home, she gave the toy car to Alex.
- Stan Pruitt — (Seth Smith) Alex's older brother.
- Molly Pruitt — (Scarlett Johansson) Alex's older sister.
[edit] Trivia and Goofs
- Agent Stucky said, "For seven years we've been after this guy", referring to Peter Beaupre. Considering that Home Alone 3 was released in 1997, seven years would make it the year 1990, which coincidentally marked the release of the original Home Alone.
- The film features Scarlett Johansson in one of her first film roles as Alex's older sister Molly.
- The scene in the garage where Jernigan sees a pair of legs dangling out of the storage attic and he pulls on them which are actually the legs of a dummy attached to a lawn mower starter which starts and falls through the door onto Jernigan was derived from the novelization of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York in which the exact same incident happens to Marv when he's searching the garage for Kevin.
- The remote Alex used to turn off the televisions at Mrs. Hess' and the Alcott's houses from his home is unlikely able to turn them off in reality, despite using the scope from his brothers air rifle. Remotes have a range limit.
- Unlike the other three Home Alone films, the movie is not set in Christmastime. Jernigan mentions " January 8 " while interrogating the taxi driver.
- The master bedroom bed had a cameo when Alex is calling the Navy Recuiting Center.
- In the scene where everybody is getting there mug shots taken, on Peter Beaupre's ID tag, it misspelled Peter as Petr.
[edit] Injuries suffered by Bad Guys
[edit] Peter Beaupre
- Jumped over the gate to get a toy car and collides with Alice.
- Hit in the head by a trunk of books, and then by a set of weights. (Along with Unger)
- Sprayed with black paint on the eyes by Alex while peeping through the mailslot.
- Hit by an alarming boxing glove to the groin after opening up a closet door.
- Falls on his buttocks and his shotgun went off twice.
- Head to the living room, until he step on the whoppee cushion that it under the carpet.
- Fell into the basement by the same trap Alice falls into.
- After fleeing Mrs. Hess' garage he hid in an Igloo, which was wired with the fireworks Alex snuck from his brother's bedroom, and were then set off by the parrot when he failed to meet the parrot's demand for two crackers.
[edit] Alice Ribbons
- Jumped over the gate to get a toy car and collides with Beaupre.
- After Alex blew the silent dog whistle, the dog ran off and Alice got pummelled along the way.
- Gets knocked in the head twice by flowerpots on the roof, getting covered with mud.
- Dislocated her spine while attempting to swing over the stairs and the supporters snapped.
- After passing the stairs through some flipping moves , she steps into a trapfloor and falls into the basement.
- Collides with Unger while chasing after Alex.
- Fell four stories straight from the roof down to the basement through the elevator shaft, resulting in a temporary paralysis.
- Jumped over the gate to get a toy car and get hit on Peter Beaupre's head
[edit] Burton Jernigan
- Slipped on the snow and slid into the Alcotts' shed and got hit with garden implements.
- Shocked by a wired jacuzzi chair.
- Got sprayed with freezing cold water from a garden hose.
- A lawn mower falls him on the head, and ends up having a bad haircut.
- Falls through a hole hidden in the floor by a carpet when he entered a room which he thought was safe but wasn't, and lands on an old bathroom toilet.
- Hit in the groin by Alice with a golf club when she tried to kill Alex's pet mouse, Doris.
- Half-frozen after jumping into the Pruetts' swimming pool, which was frozen-over. (along with Unger)
[edit] Earl Unger
- Electrocuted by a wired yarn.
- Slipped on the mat, which had marbles hidden underneath.
- Hit in the head by a trunk of books, and then by a set of weights. (Along with Beaupre)
- Got shot in the face with a plaster-filled balloon.
- Hit in the head by a window while trying to open it.
- After getting his feet stuck in Mega Block bins (which were filled with super glue), he slides into the basement and gets his hand caught in a mousetrap. He accidentally shoots the toilet pipe causing toilet water to rain down on him.
- Collides with Alice while chasing after Alex.
- Half-frozen after jumping into the Pruetts' swimming pool, which was frozen-over. (along with Jernigan)
[edit] Quotes
- Alex: You're not going to find me up there, you big dumb lawbreaking knuckle-heads!!!!
- Unger: It's winter in Chicago, (to himself) I packed Tropical!
[edit] Taglines
- It's bad news for bad guys... Again.
- Ready for more. Much more.
