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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York promotional movie poster
Directed by	Chris Colombus
Produced by	John Hughes
Written by	John Hughes
Starring	Macaulay Culkin Joe Pesci Daniel Stern John Heard Tim Curry Brenda Fricker Catherine O'Hara
Music by	John Williams
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	November 20, 1992
Running time	120 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Preceded by	Home Alone
Followed by	Home Alone 3
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is the 1992 sequel to the highly successful 1990 film Home Alone, written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. It stars 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 co-star.

Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks and Donald Trump make cameo appearances. The movie was filmed in Winnetka, IL, O'Hare Airport in Chicago, Miami and New York City (which was star Culkin's hometown at the time).

Home Alone 3 followed in 1997 and Home Alone 4 followed in 2002; both without Macaulay Culkin or any of the original cast.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Box office 3 Video games 4 References to other media 5 New York sights 6 External links 7 References

Kevin McCallister and his family prepare for their Christmas vacation to Miami, Florida. The night before leaving for Miami, the family attends a Christmas pageant at Kevin's school. Kevin's older brother Buzz ruins his solo and leads the audience into serious laughter. To fight back, Kevin punches Buzz after his solo. Buzz formally apologizes to the family after returning home. Kate, Kevin's mother, gives Kevin a chance to apologize to the family (like the first film with the whole family staring down at him (again)), but refuses after Buzz mutters an insult under his breath, and tells everyone what he did because Buzz humiliated him. After calling his Uncle Frank "Mr. Cheapskate" and bashing the family about no Christmas trees in Florida, Kevin storms up to the third floor by himself, where he was sent to at the beginning of the first film.

The McCallisters sleep in again for this trip (because Peter unplugged the alarm clock the night before for a charger and forgot to reset the clock after plugging it back in) and they rush to get ready. With Kevin riding in the front seat this time, they rush to O'Hare to catch their flight to Miami. Kevin gets separated from his family in the terminal after changing a battery in his Talkboy. He follows a man wearing an identical long, beige Burberry coat as Peter's. Following that man through the terminal, they board a plane together. Kevin missed the flight attendant's announcement that the plane was bound for New York because he was listening to his Talkboy to drown out the unrecognizable words of the French man sitting next to him.

After the McCallisters arrive in Miami, they pick up their baggage. Kevin's bag gets passed down the line, and when Kate learns that her son is missing, she faints. Meanwhile, Kevin, after suspecting that his family left him, looks at the New York skyline and asks a woman at the airline counter (Ally Sheedy) where he is. She tells him that he is in New York. Kevin soon takes a taxi into the Big Apple and visits Radio City Music Hall, Chinatown, and the World Trade Center.

Peter and Kate go to the Miami Police to file a missing person's report. The policeman calls the Chicago Police to see if Kevin is still there. With no success, the policeman requests a recent photo of Kevin. Peter says that he has one in his wallet, but then realizes that the wallet is in his bag and concludes that Kevin has the bag and the wallet. After admitting that credit cards are in the wallet, the police promise to notify the credit card companies immediately so that they can track Kevin if and when he uses the cards.

Kevin goes to check into the Plaza Hotel with his dad's Visa card (with a cameo appearance from Donald Trump telling him where the lobby is). He does not notice the escaped Wet Bandits (or the Sticky Bandits as Marv calls themselves with masking tape on his glove) passing by him on the way. He tells the hotel staff that his dad is at a meeting and that he dropped Kevin off at the hotel to check into the room. Despite skepticism from the desk clerk, she lets him into the room. Kevin swims at the pool, wearing a suit too big for him when he dives in, rents videos and eats ice cream. He watches a sequel to Angels with Filthy Souls culminating with gangster Johnny shooting a woman. Suspicious about a child in a hotel room, the concierge (Tim Curry) goes into Kevin's room but gets scared away when Kevin uses the Bozo Clown in the shower mocking Uncle Frank yelling at him for spying earlier, tripping over a chair on the way out.

The next morning, Christmas Eve, the concierge sends Kevin a limousine and a pizza, compliments of the Plaza Hotel as an apology for sneaking into Kevin's suite the previous night. After Kevin leaves, the concierge enters Peter's credit card number and discovers that it was stolen.

The limo driver drops Kevin off at Duncan's Toy Chest, a fictitious toy store modeled after New York's FAO Schwartz. The store's owner, E.F. Duncan (Eddie Bracken), checks Kevin out at the end of the visit and informs him that all of the store's profits are being donated to a local children's hospital. Kevin gives Mr. Duncan $20 to give to the hospital and is allowed to take an ornament off the store's Christmas tree for free for his generosity. Mr. Duncan suggests that he take home two turtle doves and tells Kevin to give the second one to a very special person.

Soon, Kevin meets up with his old nemeses from the first film, Harry and Marv, who have escaped from prison and hitched a ride to New York in the back of a fish truck. They chase Kevin back to the Plaza Hotel where Kevin is greeted by a very happy concierge. The concierge grabs the credit card from Kevin's pocket and the staff chases him through the lobby, stopping after Kevin gets on the elevator and the door closes before they could catch him. The desk clerk, the concierge, the bellman, and a security guard run up to Kevin's room and Kevin scares them away with the film "Angels With Even Filthier Souls", the sequel to "Angels With Filthy Souls" from the previous film.

Kevin escapes the hotel through a back door, only to literally jump straight into Harry and Marv's hands. They tear his boarding pass and take him away through the busy streets of the city, informing him of their plans to rob Duncan's Toy Chest at midnight. Kevin uses his Talkboy to tape this, as well as their promises to kill him. But he manages to escape after the two men get socked in the face by a young woman (the same one who Marv tried to steal her purse from earlier) at a pedestrian crossing. Kevin eventually loses the crooks by hiding in a horse carriage at Central Park while the bandits try fruitlessly to search for Kevin in a group of kids nearby.

In Miami, the McCallisters receive a call from the police that Kevin had been located in New York City. The family happily leaves the hotel and catches a flight to New York.

Knowing that his uncle has a townhouse nearby, Kevin tries to go there for help, only to find the place in the middle of renovation. Night comes and Kevin goes to Central Park where he becomes frightened by a homeless Pigeon Lady. He screams at her, and immediately apologizes. The lady goes over to give Kevin bird seed, which Kevin tosses and the hundreds of pigeons in the trees flock to eat it (important later). Kevin suggests going to someplace warm, and together they go to Carnegie Hall where they hear an orchestra playing. The Pigeon Lady(Brenda Fricker) tells him her life story about how she had a home and has not spoken to anyone over the years. After confessing to the lady about the wrong things he did and admitting that being alone isn't good at all, the lady tells Kevin that a good deed can make up for all of the troublemaking Kevin has caused, and convinces him to carry out that deed before Christmas.

After leaving the music hall, Kevin visits St. Anne's Children's Hospital and waves to a child in one of the windows. After recalling that the Sticky Bandits (formerly Wet Bandits) are planning to steal from the store, Kevin rushes to his uncle's vacant townhouse in Central Park and sets up a houseful of booby traps just like in the previous film.

Kevin's family arrives in the Big Apple and checks into the Plaza Hotel, where they are given a complimentary penthouse suite. When questioning the facts, Kate angrily reminds the staff that they caused her son to be lost in the city. She soon sets her heart on running around New York to find Kevin after Peter would not let her.

Midnight comes, and the toy store closes for Christmas. Harry and Marv come out of their toy houses, walk down to the lower level and start stealing from the store. Kevin then arrives a few minutes later and taps on the window of the store, snaps a photo of Harry and Marv stealing from the store and then throws a rock and breaks the window, setting off the alarm. Harry and Marv go after Kevin, but just outside the broken window, a trap set up like a see saw is set up. Harry lands on the board, and Marv's size makes Harry fly almost two stories up in the air, landing and smashing a car parked below.

The Sticky Bandits chase Kevin to his uncle's townhouse (meanwhile an audience teaser takes place when Kate goes to the townhouse to see if Kevin is there, then quickly leaves by taxi for Time Square, missing Kevin by seconds). When they arrive, the Sticky Bandits doubt that Kevin has set up traps and that they had learned their lesson from the previous film. However, they were wrong. Harry and Marv again suffer painful, but hilarious injuries from the traps. Marv gets hit by four bricks thrown by Kevin from the roof, shot three times by a staple gun trying to open the front door, and falls through a hole in the floor in the foyer and almost breaks his neck and back. Marv then slips in some slime (bought by Kevin at the toy store earlier) and gets covered by shelves with cans full of paint. He then gets electroshocked from a nearby sink that is hooked up to an arc welder and then tries to climb up a rope only to be bashed by a 100-pound bag of plaster. Meanwhile, Harry tries to climb up a slimed fire escape but falls and gets a huge glob of slime on his head. He kicks open a side door only to be hit by tools falling from a case above. He burns his head with a blow torch (for the second time) and causes an explosion when he does a upside-down handstand and puts his head into a toilet full gasoline (the explosion can be seen from the outside windows at the front of the house), burning his face. He spots Kevin climbing up a weakened ladder from earlier sawing which supports Kevin but not Harry (because of his weight) and the ladder breaks, knocking him out and almost breaking his fingers and teeth off. At one point, Harry and Marv attempt to go upstairs and Kevin throws cans of paint down the stairwell, reminiscent of a notable trap from the previous film. The thieves stand to the side of the stairs in an effort to avoid the attack. Though they are successful, they yell as if they had been hit by the cans. They both eventually get hit by a large, heavy iron pipe, causing them to fall into the basement (Kevin then cuts the rope holding the pipe, bouncing down the stairs and hitting them in the guts). Another trap Kevin used was to attach a rope tied to a tool chest at the top of the staircase at one end and a doorknob at the other. When Harry pulls the string on the doorknob, the tool chest rolls down and takes the thieves completely by surprise by forcefully breaking the door off its hinges and sending it right into their faces pinning them against a wall. The house traps culminate with Harry and Marv getting caught up in a fire on a rope soaked in kerosene. The crooks fall three stories to the basement, breaking a board filled with cans of varnish. After they land (this time with Harry getting the worst of the fall with Marv landing on top of him), they turn and get splattered with the falling varnish. Kevin goes to a nearby pay phone and calls the police.

The tables soon turn. Kevin slips on ice in Central Park and the thieves catch him. Harry then pulls out his gun and tries to shoot Kevin. The Pigeon Lady notices and yells for Kevin to run. Harry tries to shoot the pigeon lady, but his hand slips while trying to pull the trigger (due to the varnish on the gun and his hands). She throws bird seed on them and all of the birds swarm them. Kevin sets off fireworks he bought earlier in the film to show the police where the thieves are. After scaring the birds away with a gunshot, the police arrest the Sticky Bandits. Kevin has evidence from the photos he took of the robbery and from the recording that Kevin made of Harry and Marv's plan to shoot him, which the police accept. The police meet with Mr. Duncan at the toy store and return the things that were stolen to him. The inspector gives him a note from Kevin informing him what had happened that night regarding the store robbery (the same one attached to the rock he used to smash the windows and foil the attempts), apologizing for the broken window, and best of all, thanking him for the turtle doves.

Kate runs around Times Square asking locals if they had seen her son. She then meets with the police in their car and after explaining the situation to them, she is asked what she would do if she were Kevin. Kate remembers how much he loves Christmas trees and concludes that he is at Rockefeller Center; the police give her a ride there.

Kevin prays in front of the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, asking that he be reunited with his family soon. Kate finds him and they reunite in front of the tree. They go back to the hotel.

The next morning, Duncan's Toy Chest delivers the family a truck full of gifts to show their appreciation for Kevin's good deed for getting the thieves arrested. Buzz suggests that if Kevin hadn't "messed up in the first place" by getting on the NYC plane, then they wouldn't be in the huge hotel room with a Christmas tree and those gifts. So, he thinks that it's only fair that Kevin gets to open up the first present and Kevin receives a round of applause from his family. Kevin then sees the turtledoves on the suite's tree and takes them into the snow-filled Central Park. He finds the Pigeon Lady and gives her the second dove and they embrace. The movie ends with the bellman giving Buzz the room service bill from Kevin's stay. Like Kevin, he gives a chewed piece of gum to the bellhop instead of tip money. Buzz shows the outrageously lengthy bill to his dad and shouts, "Kevin! You spent $967 on room service?!" (He probably shrieks so loud he shatters his vocal cords, because the scream can be heard from the park.) from the window, Kevin runs off the screen, and the credits roll.

The movie opened to $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, averaging $14,008 per site.^[1] While it started off better than the original, the final box office gross was much less.^[2] $173,585,516 was taken in domestically and $185,406,165 overseas.

As with the first Home Alone movie, video games based on the sequel were released by THQ for such systems as the Sega Genesis, the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy and personal computers, mostly in late 1992. A separate hand-held game was released by Tiger Electronics.

Like the film Angels With Filthy Souls in the first film, Kevin's hotel video rental Angels With Even Filthier Souls is not a movie but rather specially-created footage. Both movies were a homage to the 1939 film Angels with Dirty Faces. The cheating woman in Even Filthier Souls is played by Claire Hoak.

The following landmarks and other New York City points of interest are seen in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York:

• LaGuardia Airport
• Central Park
• Battery Park
• Statue of Liberty
• Chinatown
• World Trade Center (the scene was removed from US TV broadcasts after 9-11. However, some stations airing the movie have recently resumed airing it.)
• Plaza Hotel
• Times Square
• Fulton Fish Market
• 5th Avenue
• Rockefeller Center
• Radio City Music Hall
• Brooklyn Bridge
• Manhattan Bridge
• Queensboro Bridge
• Chrysler Building
• Empire State Building
• Carnegie Hall

• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie Locations Guide.com - Maps and directions to Home Alone 2 Filming Locations
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Original Theatrical Teaser Trailer

1. ^ Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - Weekend Box Office Results. Retrieved on 2007-11-12.
2. ^ Home Alone Weekend Box Office Results. Retrieved on 2007-12-24.

v • d • e John Hughes
As Director	Sixteen Candles (1984)  · The Breakfast Club (1985)  · Weird Science (1985)  · Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)  · Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)  · She's Having a Baby (1988)  · Uncle Buck (1989)  · Curly Sue (1991)
As Writer	National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982)  · Mr. Mom (1983)  · National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)  · Nate and Hayes (1983)  · Sixteen Candles (1984)  · The Breakfast Club (1985)  · Weird Science (1985)  · Pretty in Pink (1986)  · Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)  · Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)  · Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)  · She's Having a Baby (1988)  · The Great Outdoors (1988)  · Uncle Buck (1989)  · Christmas Vacation (1989)  · Home Alone (1990)  · Career Opportunituies (1991)  · Dutch (1991)  · Curly Sue (1991)  · Beethoven (1992)  · Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)  · Dennis the Menace (1993)  · Baby's Day Out (1994)  · Miracle on 34th Street (1994)  · 101 Dalmatians (1996)  · Flubber (1997)  · Home Alone 3 (1997)  · Reach the Rock (1998)  · Just Visiting (2001)  · Maid in Manhattan (2002)

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