Movie Substrate · Film

Home Alone (1990)

★ 7.5 · 12,453 ratings on TMDB

A family comedy without the family.

Home Alone poster★ 7.5

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.

DirectorChris Columbus
CastAngela Goethals, Catherine O'Hara, Daniel Stern, Devin Ratray, Gerry Bamman, Hillary Wolf
GenresComedy, Family
The emergence reading

Home Alone keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
Explore Movie Substrate → Where to watch ↗ TMDB ↗ Rotten Tomatoes ↗ Ask about this film → Reading look wrong? → Copy link

Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Parasite (2019)E8/E9It (2017)E8/E9Se7en (1995)E8/E9Joker (2019)E8/E9Back to the Future (1985)E8/E9Finding Nemo (2003)E8/E9

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

TMNT (2007)E6/E11 · Comedy, FamilyAsterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (2023)E12/E13 · Comedy, FamilySpace Chimps (2008)E6/E10 · Comedy, FamilyFurry Vengeance (2010)E7/E11 · Comedy, FamilyThe Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle (2000)E10/E12 · Comedy, FamilyYogi Bear (2010)E7/E10 · Comedy, Family

Same people

Shared director or cast.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)dir. Chris ColumbusHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)dir. Chris ColumbusHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)dir. Chris ColumbusAfter Hours (1985)Catherine O'HaraC.H.U.D. (1984)Daniel SternBeetlejuice (1988)Catherine O'Hara