Home Alone Themes

Family has its pros and cons in Home Alone. Pros? They provide the joys of togetherness and assuage one's solitude. Cons? They might act like jerks, devour a cheese pizza that had been set aside fo...

Kevin's parents don't intentionally abandon him, but they're forgetful enough to completely lose track of him on the day of their flight to France. This gives Kevin's mom a major case of guilt—sh...

In order to survive on his own, Kevin has to metamorphose from the wimpy baby he was at the beginning of the movie—a kid who can't pack his own suitcase—to the kind of energetic hero who can sy...

In Home Alone, violence isn't a bad thing—it's a cleansing and healing force. Without violence, how would Kevin defeat Harry and Marv? Calling the cops? (Okay, that might actually work). No, inst...

Home Alone hammers out its "crime doesn't pay" moral pretty aggressively. Neither Harry nor Marv is an admirable Robin Hood criminal: they're a pair of frequently blundering idiots who flood houses...

We all know the saying, "Don't judge a book by its cover"—and that couldn't be more useful in Home Alone. Marley is like a book with a cover that appears to be bound in the skin of people he's mu...