In Need of Attention You don't want to mess with Kevin McCallister. This guy can go from cute kid to villain-from-Saw at a moment's notice. He can act innocent and adorably bratty around his parent...

Guilt Trippin' Kate McCallister goes on an actual guilt-trip. Most people travel to France and experience the thrill of falling in love with someone with a sexy accent, the thrill of falling in lov...

There's no delicate way to say it: this guy is a slimeball. Your first hint that Harry Lime's a scumbag? No, it's not the fact that he's played by Joe "Typecast As Lowlifes" Pesci. No, it's not the...

Marv is…kind of a dope. (To be fair, so is Harry, but Marv is less stable and even less intelligent.) And he also has a sadistic streak a mile wide. Instead of simply robbing houses, he leaves th...

This kindly old man might give you a case of the warm fuzzies—seriously, he even made George from Seinfeld weep while watching Home Alone by himself. At first, Buzz tells Kevin that Old Man Marle...

Peter MacCallister is Kevin's dad, but he's not really as important to the story as Kevin's mom. Sure, he loves Kevin and all that typical dad stuff, but he's not the one who goes on a quest to get...

Buzz is the stereotypical meathead older bro…and not just because his parents saddled him with the unfortunate name Buzz. (Is he a Lightyear? Thought not.) He's an obnoxious jerk who devours a ch...

This guy is basically the Christmas spirit personified: he's a jolly, polka-playing Midwesterner with a heart of gold. When he sees Kevin's mom in distress at the Scranton airport, he doesn't hesit...

Uncle Frank, brother to Kevin's dad, is the same kind of amusing jerk as Buzz—just grown-up. Frank prevents Kevin from watching Angels with Filthy Souls, encourages his wife to steal crystal glas...

Despite joining in with the rest of the family to laugh at Kevin for being an incompetent squirt who can't pack his own suitcase, Megan expresses some sympathy for him. This isn't true at the begin...

Heather should learn how to count. We don't learn much about her during the movie, but we do see her flub the head-count when they're getting ready to go to the airport. She accidentally counts Mit...

Kevin's sister Linnie, like the rest of the McCallister family, starts out thinking his a helpless little dweeb. When he can't pack his own suitcase, she tells him: LINNIE: You're what the French c...

Kevin's cousin Fuller is a bit of a one-trick pony. His trick? He wets the bed. KEVIN: I don't wanna sleep with Fuller. You know him; he wets the bed. He'll pee all over me, I know it.A true son of...

This guy doesn't get paid enough. While he's a wild motorist—knocking over a statue in front of the McCallisters' house when he first arrives—the pizza boy delivers pizzas successfully and on t...

This dude isn't the "real" Santa—but Kevin thinks that he's someone who's in touch with the real Santa, and can relay his message to the Big Man at the North Pole. Fake Santa's wearing a fake bea...

When in doubt, rely on the aid of kindly elderly people. Kevin basically does that when Marley saves him, and his mother does it earlier in the movie. While the rest of the McCallister family is wi...

Arguably, this kid is responsible for the entire crisis of the movie. Mitch is a neighbor kid who lives next door to Kevin, and he's nosy and full of curiosity. While the van driver waits to pick u...

When you operate the phone at a police station, you get used to panicked callers. It's a job that requires nerves of steel. That's why Kevin's mom—anxious to make sure her son is okay—doesn't r...

This guy seems like he just drank a massive cup of chamomile tea—he's so laidback, he seems as if he's about to nod off.Or maybe he's just used to getting phone calls from frantic people. When Ke...

After Marley brains Harry and Marv with his snow shovel, he turns the two burglars over to Officer Devereux. Devereux doesn't really have much to say, but functions as an information tool, letting...

Hailing from the noble city of Scranton—"The Electric City" as it's (locally) known—this guy has to deal with Kevin's mom as she scrambles to get a flight to Chicago. (She's landed in Scranton...

This lady seems nosy—even though she's doing the completely right and logical thing. When Kevin shops for groceries all by himself, the checkout girl grows suspicious. Kevin swats away her questi...

When Kevin asks this lady if a toothbrush has been "approved by the American dental association" she's baffled—it's like she's been hit with the Riddle of the Sphinx. She has to confer with anoth...

This guy is like Batman—except with preventing a toothbrush robbery by yelling for a cop to help, instead of, you know, with batarangs and martial arts and stuff. When Kevin inadvertently steals...

Now, for the human filler. These characters aren't really essential to the movie, but there are a bunch of other McCallisters traveling to France. They don't play any really crucial role in the mov...