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| Home Alone 3 - 1997 |
Coming up next we have 1997's "Home Alone 3", a film about a young boy who finds himself battling a gang of international terrorists after his remote control car. When nobody believes his story, it's up to him to stop them.
The film's cast includes Alex D. Linz, Olek Krupa, Rya Kihlstedt, Lenny von Dohlen, David Thornton, Haviland Morris, Kevin Kilner, Marian Seldes, Seth Smith, Scarlett Johansson, and Neil Flynn.
On a trip to San Francisco, a remote control car bearing a computer chip belonging to a North Korean terrorist organization is inadvertently picked up by a grumpy lady named Mrs. Hess. Completely unaware of the mistake, she takes the car home with her to Chicago.
As payment for a snow removal job, Mrs. Hess gives the toy car to her neighbor Alex. She is definitely unhappy about bringing the car home with her. She had intended to bring home a loaf of famous San Francisco sourdough bread. "I left my bread in San Francisco," she moans.
Immediately after returning home with the car, Alex discovers he has the chicken pox.
When his mom gets called into work, Alex has to stay home alone. He gets into all sorts of mischief, including tormenting Mrs. Hess from across the street. He uses his own remote control to change her TV channels while she's getting "tanged up on iced tea".
While looking through a telescope around the neighborhood, Alex discovers some suspicious goings-on. He immediately calls the police. It turns out that these bad people want the computer chip concealed in the car, and they have tracked it to his particular street.
By the time the police arrive, there is nothing to investigate. This happens a couple of times, and the police become upset at answering false alarms.
With only his pet rat Doris to believe him, Alex sets out to catch the bad guys himself.
Alex narrowly misses losing the car to the criminals, and it's only through some pretty ingenious moves that he's able to get it back. However, the bad guys now realize where they have to go.
He calls the Air Force and tells them about the chip. They don't believe him, but they take down the number on the chip to look into it. Alex prepares his house for the war he knows is coming.
He engineers a bunch of booby traps that keep the bad guys on their toes. They can't believe the fight that this kid is putting up!
Even Doris gets in on the action, hiding inside a hole in one of the criminal's pants. When his accomplice smacks him with a crowbar in a very tender place, Mr. Burton Jernigan moans, "You smacked my winkie!" To which Alice Ribbons replies, "Well, if you changed your shorts once in a while, maybe you wouldn't have rats in your pants." (Don't worry. Doris doesn't get pulverized by a crowbar. She escapes in plenty of time.)
The FBI comes to the school of Alex's siblings, who can't believe what Alex has gotten himself into.
It takes all of Alex's smarts and ingenuity to stay one-step ahead of the terrorists. He even gets into a gun fight with the leader. The FBI arrives in the nick of time and Alex is reward with a six-figure sum as a reward. The terrorists' reward is jail time...plus a bad case of chicken pox.
Cast rundown:
Alex D. Linz................................Alex Pruitt
Olek Krupa.................................Peter Beaupre
Rya Kihlstedt..............................Alice Ribbons
Lenny von Dohlen.......................Burton Jernigan
David Thornton...........................Earl Unger
Haviland Morris...........................Karen Pruitt
Kevin Kilner................................Jack Pruitt
Marian Seldes.............................Mrs. Hess
Seth Smith.................................Stan Pruitt
Scarlett Johansson......................Molly Pruitt
Neil Flynn...................................Police Officer #1
And that's all for Home Alone 3. I normally don't do sequels before their originals, but this Home Alone installment actually has nothing to do with its predecessors. Out of four Home Alone movies, this is the only one that isn't set at Christmastime.
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