Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 aftereffect to the 1990 blur Home Alone, and the additional blur in the Home Alone series. Home Alone 2 was accounting and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It appearance 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 are additionally featured.

Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks and Donald Trump accomplish adornment appearances. The cine was filmed in Winnetka, Illinois, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was brilliant Culkin's hometown at the time). Also, the blur became the additional best acknowledged blur of 1992, earning over $173 actor in acquirement in the United States and over $358 actor worldwide.

Home Alone 3 followed in 1997, and Home Alone 4: Demography Aback the Abode followed in 2002—both afterwards Macaulay Culkin in the advance roles.

The aperture artifice to Home Alone 2 is agnate to the artifice in the aboriginal movie. The absolute McCallister ancestors has aggregate at Peter and Kate McCallister's abode abreast Christmas time as all of them are activity on a cruise to Miami, Florida for the Christmas holiday. This bugs Kevin McCallister, the nine-year old advocate of the film, because (as he says) "there's no Christmas copse in Florida." As in the aboriginal film, a action amid Kevin and his oldest brother Buzz- which after-effects in Kevin actuality ashamed at a choral account and hitting Buzz, which causes him and the absolute choir to fall- ends with Kevin accusatory about Buzz accepting abroad with everything.

Once again, the McCallister association sleeps in and runs backward for their flight out of O'Hare International Airport to Miami, banishment anybody to blitz to get accessible and out the door. This time, Kevin makes it with his ancestors to the flight. However, instead of boarding the aforementioned flight, Kevin loses his ancestors in the airport while accepting batteries for his Talkboy. Seeing a man who is cutting the aforementioned blush accoutrement as Peter, he follows him against a flight to LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

After the flight to Miami, the McCallisters ascertain that while Kevin's baggage fabricated it, Kevin himself did not. The Miami Airport badge adjudge to anxiety Chicago, but already they acquisition out he isn't there the administrator in allegation asks for a account of Kevin. While digging for his wallet to get one Peter discovers his wallet is missing and bound realizes why- his wallet was in his biking bag, which Kevin took to get his batteries, and aback Kevin never fabricated it to Miami with his own baggage Kevin still has the bag and accordingly has the wallet. Aback the wallet had acclaim cards in it, the airport aegis informs Peter and Kate that Kevin could be tracked if he acclimated one.

While all of this is activity on Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), the "Wet Bandits" from the aboriginal film, accept fabricated their way to New York in the aback of a angle barter afterwards artifice from bastille in Chicago. Deciding to abide their break-in cord in New York, Marv decides to acquisition a new way to abduct things easier by accoutrement his gloves with bifold sided appearance tape, which he afresh uses to abduct 14 cents from a affected Santa Claus' donation box on the street, and decides that Harry and Marv should be renamed the "Sticky Bandits". Harry is not amused and afterwards decides that they charge to hit bigger targets.

While advertent on a abode to break while in New York, Kevin walks through Central Esplanade and meets a adult that is covered in rags and tends to pigeons, which makes him shudder. He additionally spots the Plaza Hotel, which he had heard mentioned on a bold appearance the night before, and decides to analysis in. He affluence a allowance beneath Peter's name and uses one of his father's acclaim cards to analysis in, aback committing acclaim agenda artifice in the process. Kevin additionally arouses the suspicions of the Plaza's concierge, who goes to abundant lengths to advance to prove him a artifice (all of which initially proves futile).

While at the auberge Kevin decides to appoint a auto to booty him about New York, which gives the babysitter time to analysis his story. Kevin ends up at Duncan's Toy Chest, a ample toy store, breadth he meets the store's owner. Mr. Duncan, a philantropist, tells Kevin of a donation drive he is active for a bounded children's hospital. Afterwards Kevin donates some money Mr. Duncan allows him booty a brace of bowl turtledoves, instructing him to accord one to addition abroad as a attribute of friendship.

As Kevin leaves the store, however, his problems begin. He is aboriginal accosted by Harry and Marv alfresco the store, but is able to escape. He sees the babysitter as he active aback to the auberge and tries to get him to help, but the babysitter reveals to Kevin that he has activate out that he had acclimated a baseborn acclaim agenda to analysis in to the auberge and begins block afterwards him.

Using a ambush from the aboriginal film, Kevin is able to escape while auberge aegis is absent by a cine he plays at abounding volume. Aloof as Kevin is about to leave the hotel, Marv and Harry ambush him in an alley. While the three are walking Marv tells Kevin about their affairs to rob Duncan's Toy Chest afterwards that night, blind that Kevin is recording the absolute conversation. Again, though, Kevin is able to escape by stowing abroad in the aback of a hansom cab.

In Miami, breadth the McCallisters are blockage in a low-end cabin which armament them all to allotment one room, they accept chat of Kevin's abode and anon leave for New York. When they access at the Plaza Peter and Kate berate the agents for alarming Kevin away, and Kate decides to go attractive for Kevin on the streets. Peter follows the blow of the ancestors to a accommodation apartment accustomed as a badge of the hotel's apology.

Meanwhile, Kevin has gone aback walking through the streets and is abashed by what he finds on his way. Although he finds his Uncle Rob's abandoned penthouse, he additionally comes beyond some abandoned bodies and two prostitutes, he encounters the pigeon adult again. He tries to run from her, but gets his bottom caught. She frees him and Kevin runs abroad screaming, alone to appear aback apologetically and appoint her in a conversation. It leads the two to watch a Christmas concert in a attic aloft Carnegie Hall, breadth the pigeon adult tells Kevin about how her activity has collapsed afar and how she dealt with it by demography affliction of the pigeons in the park. As he leaves, Kevin says to her that if she needs a friend, he would be willing. Although flattered, the pigeon adult tells Kevin not to accomplish a affiance he can't accumulate and he leaves anon thereafter.

While on his way Kevin stops at the children's hospital. Remembering what both Mr. Duncan and Marv said, Kevin decides that he is activity to try and stop the Wet Bandits from burglarizing Duncan's Toy Chest and active aback to his uncle's abode to anatomy addition plan which he calls "Operation Ho-Ho-Ho". When he completes that, he active to Duncan's aloof in time to see Harry and Marv breaking into the banknote annals and donation bins. He sets up a makeshift seesaw/catapult with a axle and brazier abreast the store's window, takes two pictures of the burglars, afresh throws a brick with a agenda for Mr. Duncan angry to it through the window to cruise the abundance alarm. Harry begins block Kevin but acreage on one end of the plank. Aloof as he realizes what is about to appear he turns to acquaint Marv to stop, but Marv isn't advantageous absorption and as a aftereffect Harry goes aerial through the air and crashes through the roof of a anchored car.

Kevin afresh runs aback to his uncle's with Harry and Marv in hot pursuit, breadth the action begins as Harry begs Kevin for the camera. Kevin responds by throwing several artery at Harry (which, amazingly, all hit Marv) and the two activate block Kevin through the house. As the arrangement ends, Harry and Marv are aggravating to get off a ablaze braiding that Kevin chic on the alfresco of the abode but fall. As they fall, they beating several cans of adorn into the air which sticks to their bodies.

Kevin afresh calls the badge as Harry and Marv are block him and is about to escape, but block and avalanche on a application of ice. This enables the burglars to bolt him and they booty him into the esplanade breadth Harry tries to shoot Kevin. However, aback the gun is covered with adorn it won't fire. While Harry struggles with the gun the pigeon adult enters the arena and distracts Harry and Marv. Kevin is able to run to assurance with the burglars' focus now on the pigeon lady, but aback Harry still can't blaze his gun the pigeon adult strikes aboriginal by throwing a brazier of birdseed on both of them. This causes every pigeon in the breadth to advance Harry and Marv, as the birdseed is afraid to the varnish. Aback they can't move, they are clumsy to escape and the badge arrest them at the scene.

Back at Duncan's Toy Chest Mr. Duncan is notified of the break-in and finds the agenda Kevin wrote to him, in which he thanked him for his beforehand allowance of the turtledoves. Mr. Duncan smiles aloft account that, acumen that Kevin's motives were good. Meanwhile, Kate finds Kevin in advanced of the Rockefeller Center Christmas timberline afterwards acumen through a chat with two badge admiral that he charge be there, and the two embrace and apologize to anniversary other.

A truckload of ability comes to The Plaza the abutting morning as a accolade for Kevin's arresting of the robbery. Buzz allows Kevin to accessible up the aboriginal present, accepting accommodated with him. While anybody abroad is aperture their presents, Kevin notices that his turtledoves are on the room's Christmas timberline and active beyond the artery to the park. There he finds the pigeon adult and gives her one of them, accomplishing his affiance to her to be her friend. At the aforementioned time, Kevin's allowance account bill from his aboriginal break at the auberge (totaling $967) is delivered to the apartment and Peter yells so loud Kevin can apprehend him beyond the street. The blur ends with Kevin active aback to the auberge to explain the charges.

Cast

* Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister

* Joe Pesci as Harry Lyme

* Daniel Stern as Marv Merchants

* Catherine O'Hara as Kate McCallister

* John Heard as Peter McCallister

* Devin Ratray as Buzz McCallister

* Hillary Wolf as Megan McCallister

* Maureen Elisabeth Shay as Linnie McCallister

* Mike Maronna as Jeff McCallister

* Gerry Bamman as Frank McCallister

* Terrie Snell as Leslie McCallister

* Jedidiah Cohen as Rod McCallister

* Senta Moses as Tracy McCallister

* Daiana Campeanu as Sondra McCallister

* Kieran Culkin as Fuller McCallister

* Anna Slotky as Brooke McCallister

* Tim Curry as Mr. Hector, the Auberge Concierge

* Brenda Fricker as Pigeon Lady

* Eddie Bracken as E.F. Duncan

* Dana Ivey as Mrs. Stone

* Rob Schneider as Cedric

* Ally Sheedy as New York Ticket Agent

* Donald Trump (uncredited) as Himself

* Bob Eubanks (uncredited) as Himself