Home Alone 3 is a 1997 film starring Alex D. Linz and Daniel Stern.

Home Alone 3 is the sequel to Home Alone and 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: Lost in New York.

Taglines:

• It's bad news for bad guys... Again.
• Ready for more. Much more.

Home Alone 3 is a comedy in which a young child, Alex Pruett, is left home alone, because he is sick. He, unknowingly, has something a band of four spies want, a microchip hidden in a toy car, though the robbers think that the item is in the house of one of the child's neighbors. The kid catches them in action inside the house, 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.

Criticism

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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. Simultaneously, it is often praised for not only being different but also displaying an evolution of bad guys--instead of being completely dumb and unintelligent, the bad guys in this film are much more intelligent and use modern technology to sway the advantage to their side. They do however, continue the characteristics of being easily defeated by a child.

The film also features Scarlett Johansson in one of her first film roles as Alex's older sister Molly.

Trivia

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• Agent Stucky said, "For seven years we've been after this guy Marv Murchens." Considering Home Alone 3 was released in 1997, Seven years would make it the year 1990, which coincidently marked the release of the original Home Alone.

Injuries suffered by Bad Guys

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Peter Beaupre

• Hit in the head by a trunk of books, and then by a set of weights.
• Sprayed with black paint on the eyes by Alex while peeping through the mailslot.
• Hit by a alarming boxing glove to the stomach after opening up a closet door.

Alice Ribbons

• Attempted to jump a whole entrance staircase to avoid slippery ice, but supporters broke and fell through the stairs.
• Fell from four stories straight to the basement through the elevator shaft.

Burton Jernigan

• Electrocuted by a wired outdoor chair.
• A lawn mower hits him on the head, and ends up having a bad haircut.
• Hit in the groin by Alice with a crowbar when she tried to kill Alex's petmouse, Doris.
• Half-frozen after jumping from the roof into a swimming pool.

Earl Unger

• Hit in the head by a trunk of books, and then by a set of weights.
• Half-frozen after jumping from the roof into a swimming pool.

External link

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1997 films | Comedy films | American films | Home Alone | Sequel films