This furnace makes the talking appliances from The Brave Little Toaster look like mere child's play. When Kevin goes into his basement, the house's furnace metamorphoses into a talking, grumbling d...

How come people with gold teeth get a bad rap in old movies? What's wrong with losing a tooth, exactly?At any rate, at the beginning of the movie, Kevin's startled by Harry's twinkling gold toothâ€...

Aren't we all really the same underneath it all? Maybe—but Harry's a jerk, and Marley's a nice guy. That's Home Alone's way of seeing things. At first, we see Harry's identity in reverse: in real...

When Kevin realizes he's alone, he immediately does what any kid would do: fixes a giant bowl of ice cream and watches a violent movie, Angels with Filthy Souls. Angels appears to be a black-and-wh...

This pet ends up being used for biological warfare, in a way. After Kevin accidentally unleashes Buzz's tarantula, it goes scurrying around the house. As Kevin prepares his booby traps in a montage...

The McCallisters make the mistake of abandoning their traditional Midwestern Chicago Christmas in favor of a Christmas spent visiting a relative in très exotic France. Uh-oh. That causes everythin...