Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chard, Holly

Titel

FAMILY FILM FRANCHISES: 20th Century Fox (1989–1997)

Ist Teil von

• Mainstream Maverick, 2020, p.167-192

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Texas Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Released by 20th Century Fox in November 1990, Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) “stunned Hollywood executives by laying to waste every huge-budget action blockbuster and sure-fire sequel aimed at the movie-dense Christmas season.”¹ Written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus, the family comedy starred the child actor Macaulay Culkin as a nine-year-old who has to protect his house from invasion by two burglars after being accidentally left at home during the holidays. Home Alone combined Hughes’s observational humor and festive sentiment with large doses of broad, slapstick comedy. A strong adult cast, including Joe Pesci, Catherine