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Home Alone 3 (1997) 3.9
Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fend off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed. Director:Raja GosnellWriter:John Hughes |
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Four high-tech industrial spies, Beaupre, Alice, Jernigan and Unger, steal a top-secret microchip, and, to fool customs, hide it in a remote-control toy car. Through a baggage mix-up at the airport, grumpy old Mrs.Hess gets the toy and gives it to her neighbor, 8-year-old Alex. Spies want to get the toy back before their clients get angry and decide to burglarize every house at Alex's street to find the chip. But Alex is prepared for their visit... Written by Anonymous
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Ready for more. Much more. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated PG for slapstick violence, language and mild sensuality | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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12 December 1997 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$32,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
£383,617 (UK) (2 January 1998)Gross:
$30,672,357 (USA) (27 March 1998)Company Credits
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Earl Unger: We're gonna work houses in broad daylight?
Peter Beaupre: It's the suberbs, Mr. Unger. Nobody's home during the day.
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This is the only Home Alone film that actually takes place *after* Christmas. See more »Goofs
The hubcaps of the Taurus wagon change from multi-spoked at the beginning of the movie to 3-spoked near the end. See more »Quotes
Peter Beaupre: There are 14 houses. The toy car must be in one of them. We're going have to search them all. We'll come back when it's light.Earl Unger: We're gonna work houses in broad daylight?
Peter Beaupre: It's the suberbs, Mr. Unger. Nobody's home during the day.
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Home Alone 3 has a lot of unfair criticism. I mean, how many of you would really have wanted a 16-year-old Mac Culkin doing the same-old same-old to Harry and Marv. Of course it was a better idea to do in a different direction and with John Hughes still producing and writing you know there's going to be a good amount of imagination and creativity.
This time around we have 8-year-old Alex Pruitt defend his house against international criminals. Stuck at home with Chicken Pox with both his parents tied-up in work matters, Alex suspects foul play on his snowy street when he witnesses strangers poking around in his neighbor's house. Of course, no one believes an imaginative 8-year-old so he has to deal with them himself.
It turns out that a toy car Alex got from the old-lady across the street is actually a Trojan horse to smuggle a priceless defence microchip to the North Korean mob. They really ought to hire better criminals as they fall for every one of Alex's sadistic booby-traps.
Yes, that is basically the whole plot but it gets enough mileage out of it and it's still very funny. Set in January, it lacks the Xmas feel of the first two, but I guess that would have just been a distraction. John Williams' theme only gets a brief recital at the start, but from then on it's an adequate (if not exceptional) score from Hans Zimmer pal Nick Glennie-Smith. Despite these key differences of characters and theme, it still feels like it has enough continuity with the others.
It's a totally worthwhile and enjoyable sequel that has a bad rep for no reason. Home Alone 4 on the other hand...now THAT is BAD!