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Podcast: Comfort Films Podcast
Episode: Comfort Films 57: Home Alone (1990)
Description: Welcome to the second annual Comfort Films Christmas series, ya filthy animals! Â We kick it off this year with a nostalgic look back at 1990's Home Alone, discussing Macaulay Culkin's star-making turn as Kevin McCallister, kids' competing excitement and fear of being alone, the case for Home Alone as a kid version of Die Hard, and the slapstick/Rube Goldberg device-filled showdown between Kevin and the Wet Bandits, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, which looms large over the film despite the surprisingly short amount of screen time. Â We also sing the praises of another great John Hughes sc...