Home Alone (1990 film)

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American film Christmas film family comedy film film

Home Alone (1990 film) is a popular family comedy in which a young boy must defend his house from burglars after being accidentally left behind during his family's Christmas vacation.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	As subject	As object
Home Alone	0	7
Home Alone film score	0	1

Statements (64)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American film → Christmas film → family comedy film → film →
award	Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score → Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song "Somewhere in My Memory" → Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Macaulay Culkin → Golden Globe nomination for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy →
basedInLocation	Chicago NERFINISHED →
boxOfficeGrossWorldwide	approximately $476,700,000 →
budget	approximately $18,000,000 →
castMember	Catherine O’Hara → surface form: Catherine O'Hara Daniel Stern → Devin Ratray NERFINISHED → Joe Pesci → John Candy → John Heard → Kieran Culkin → Macaulay Culkin → Roberts Blossom →
characterPortrayedBy	Harry Lyme – Joe Pesci → Catherine O’Hara → surface form: Kate McCallister – Catherine O'Hara Macaulay Culkin → surface form: Kevin McCallister – Macaulay Culkin Marv Murchins – Daniel Stern → Peter McCallister – John Heard →
characterRole	Harry and Marv are burglars attempting to rob the McCallister house → Macaulay Culkin → surface form: Kevin McCallister is an 8-year-old boy accidentally left home alone
cinematographyBy	Julio Macat →
countryOfOrigin	United States of America → surface form: United States
director	Chris Columbus →
distributor	20th Century Fox NERFINISHED →
editedBy	Raja Gosnell →
filmingLocation	Chicago NERFINISHED → Illinois →
followedBy	Home Alone 2: Lost in New York →
genre	Christmas film → comedy film → family film →
mainCharacter	Harry Lyme → Kate McCallister NERFINISHED → Kevin McCallister → Marv Murchins → Peter McCallister NERFINISHED →
mpaaRating	PG →
musicBy	John Williams NERFINISHED →
narrativeLocation	suburban Chicago →
notableFor	becoming one of the highest-grossing comedies of all time → slapstick violence and elaborate booby traps →
notableSong	Somewhere in My Memory →
originalLanguage	English →
partOfSeries	Home Alone film series →
plotSummary	An 8-year-old boy is accidentally left behind when his family goes on a Christmas vacation and must defend his home from burglars using improvised traps →
producer	Hunt Lowry → John Hughes →
productionCompany	Hughes Entertainment →
ratingSystem	MPAA film rating system → surface form: MPAA
releaseDate	1990-11-10 → 1990-11-16 →
releaseSeason	holiday season 1990 →
runtimeMinutes	103 →
screenwriter	John Hughes →
setInPeriod	Christmas season →
title	Home Alone (1990 film) self-linksurface differs → surface form: Home Alone
writer	John Hughes →