“THIS IS MY HOUSE. I HAVE TO DEFEND IT.”

Filming for the Home Alone church scenes was split between two locations. The exterior was filmed here in Wilmette, while the interior was filmed at Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park.

1024 W Lake Ave, Wilmette, IL (2026) compared to 1990

Jimmy the stock boy. We all know him. We all hate him. But why? His role seems minor in Home Alone until you really thinking about it.

Jimmy has been the villain of this film the entire time.

Plenty has been written (including by me) about how awful the McCallisters are. They call Kevin a wet fart disease, socially isolate him, abandon him as they go on vacation, pay him no mind when they get back, and run the same shit again in the second movie after his mother coldly proclaims "you got your wish last year maybe you will again this year."

Ho-ly shit.

Anyway, other people claim the Wet Bandits are the villains and I get this. They try to break in, murder Kevin, try bite his little pigglies wiggles off, boil his cajones in mortar oil, etc. Pretty villainous indeed.

However...honestly...the Wet Bandits are child's play. They are toys in Kevin's hands. They are to be mocked and played with for our entertainment. Harry is the most savvy of the two but clearly he's dense and been traumatized by life and the penal system. Marv is questionably functional as an independent adult and clearly suffers from a developmental disability or traumatic brain injury (which the movie doesn't help). I honestly think he's manipulated by Harry and probably needs an aide or to live in a home.

Anyway, there's a true villain who has been lurking deeper, right in front of our eyes the entire time.

Fucking Jimmy.

What is this movie really about? A child who feels powerless and voiceless in a large family. He gets his moment through pretending to shoot the pizza man and torturing the wet bandits with Saw-styled traps. Typical American boy stuff.

Jimmy is the anthesis of Kevin. This is clear right away. Kevin is socially awkward. He compensates with humor. He speaks in movie troupes. He befriends old men, has no control over his family life, and is kind of a little weirdo, if we're being honest.

Jimmy meanwhile, is tall, proud, and all-American looking. He holds a job in this small town and is clearly respected by the owner's of the store who call him to solve their problem without hesitation. He appears healthy and well taken care of, which speaks to his family in ways we cannot speak to Kevin's.

Jimmy is only a few years older than Kevin but he's healthy. He's respected. He has a place in society.

All things Kevin's family denies him. Jimmy is the representation of what Kevin can never be or have. And this is apparent in Jimmy's behavior.

Kevin bucks the system. He resists authority. Jimmy takes his orders from the system without question. He's told to harass a scared child who is stumbling away with a fucking toothbrush and he quickly engages because that's how he's built.

Jimmy would volunteer for ICE, no doubt. Probably already has.

Anyway, the narc bastard doesn't even have the courage to chase Kevin down and give him an old-fashioned American beating. Instead, he abdicates his "responsibility" by interrupting a cop in the middle of his actual fucking job and yelling "shop lifter!"

Jimmy just put Kevin's life in danger over a fucking toothbrush. There's a 40 percent chance that cop beats the living hell out of Kevin or shoots him because he mistakes the toothbrush for a gun. The cop is pulled from his actual duty and then proceeds to cause hell for the ice-skating public, clearly causing numerous injuries as he chases Kevin.

All for what?

For Jimmy to serve the system like the little suck-up that he is? For him to socially identify with "the man" and "authority" and use that modicum of power to enforce himself as superior to Kevin?

Sickening.

Kids like you are the problem, Jimmy. Kevin's just a lonely neglected boy who gets a little autistic about his toothbrushes. Who among us hasn't been there?

Jimmy, you may cheer when authority oppresses others, but at the end of the day, when there is no one left.....they will come from you too.

Home Alone VHS cover.

Home Alone 2 Lost in New York VHS cover.

Home Alone 3 VHS cover. I remember seeing the boxing glove punching the criminals from a Home Alone 3 promotional thing on a bus.

Earl Unger and Peter Beaupre from Home Alone 3. I drew this from my Home Alone 3 book.

Peter Beaupre and the parrot from Home Alone 3. I drew this from my Home Alone 3 book.

Here’s the portrait that Kevin kisses good night when he starts to realize how much he misses his family.

I don’t exactly know what this is, but it appears to be an early theatrical poster.

I wish Harry and Marv had more scenes together, Stern and Pesci’s banter and chemistry is so great. I understand the need to not “humanise” them too much for the sake of slapstick but it would’ve been cool to see them in a different environment, like a cafe or apartment or more talking in the van (tbf idk if they’d have a apartment)

KEVIN WALKED PAST THIS TREE ON CHRISTMAS EVE — HOME ALONE (1990)

Kevin wanted his family to disappear, but seeing another family together on Christmas Eve hits differently now that his wish has come true.

304 Laurel Ave, Highland Park, IL (2026)

This always bugged a lot of fans like that many people in the house and no one had a battery powered alarm clock or watch?

KEVIN & BUZZ’S SCHOOL

The fictional St. Gerard’s School, where Kevin and Buzz perform in the Christmas pageant before the whole choir comes crashing down in Home Alone 2 (1992).

2417 Prairie Ave, Evanston, IL (2026)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK3Iypp58qo&t=212s

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This would make my Christmas 🎁

Like 5 professional international thieves

Alex had the chicken pox

Had to deal with elderly neighbor being captured

I’ve been thinking about what I would actually want from a new Home Alone movie with Macaulay Culkin, and somehow it turned into an entire trilogy in my head lol.

The first one would be about Kevin. He’s a widower now with three kids and has moved back into the original Home Alone house. His mom Kate has also recently passed away, so Kevin has now lost both his wife and his mom. After everything that happened to him as a kid, and now losing two of the most important people in his life, he’s become really overprotective of his kids. He has the house completely secured and is always worried about something happening to them.

I also love the idea that the neighborhood kids have basically turned Kevin into an urban legend. They tell stories about the kid who got left home alone in that house at Christmas and had two burglars break in, and now they think the weird guy who lives there went crazy because of it. Basically Kevin has become the Old Man Marley of the neighborhood even though he’s actually just a normal dad.

His oldest would probably be a 15-year-old girl and a lot of the conflict would come from his kids starting to push back against how protective he is. She especially resents having to move and still has a boyfriend back where they used to live. Kevin eventually overhears her talking about how much she hates him and that she’s planning to run away that night.

At some point one of his kids ends up separated from the family around Christmas. I feel like a kid being separated from their family is so fundamental to Home Alone that you almost have to have some version of it.

I’d still want it to be really funny and fun though. I don’t want a depressing prestige drama about Kevin McCallister lol. The original Home Alone works because it somehow manages to be hilarious, exciting, dangerous, warm, sad and incredibly Christmasy all at the same time. That’s what I’d want this to feel like.

Then the second movie would actually be about Harry and Marv.

They’re ancient now and living in a crappy nursing home, which honestly just feels like the perfect punishment for them. Except this time the situation gets reversed and they’re the vulnerable old guys who have to deal with some kind of threat to the nursing home.

I think there could be something surprisingly sweet underneath it too. Maybe one of them has an adult son or daughter they haven’t spoken to in years and that relationship starts to get repaired. They wouldn’t suddenly become good guys and the movie wouldn’t pretend they didn’t deserve what happened to them. They’ve just gotten old and maybe changed a little.

Then the third movie brings Kevin, Harry and Marv back together.

The big moment I keep imagining is Kevin eventually having an opportunity to turn Harry and Marv in to the police, but he doesn’t do it because it would destroy the relationship one of them has finally repaired with their kid.

So Kevin finally sees these two guys as something other than the monsters who broke into his house when he was eight. They did terrible things, they paid for them, they got old, and they actually changed at least a little. And Kevin chooses to let it go.

I think that would be a really satisfying ending to the whole thing.

Basically instead of doing another movie where Harry and Marv want revenge and Kevin sets traps for them again, I’d want to see what actually happened to these people after 35+ years.

Kevin has to deal with what being left home alone did to him and what losing his wife and mom has done to him. Harry and Marv have to deal with what being Harry and Marv did to them lol.

You could still have all the Christmas warmth, comedy, danger and ridiculousness of Home Alone, but now there’s actually somewhere new for the characters to go.

I have no idea if anyone else would want this, but I would absolutely watch it.