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Kevin realizes it later in the film. Due to noticing the gold tooth.

No it was debunked. The Extra who looks a lot like Elvis was in fact a friend of the Director. Plus, seeing as how Elvis Presley died in 1977, it's highly unlikely he would randomly show up as a background player in a movie made 13 years later.

When the pizza boy came, Kevin had time to plan out what parts of the tape he was going to play, this was not the case with Marv because Kevin didn't know Marv was coming. So Kevin simply played the movie while he got the firecrackers ready hoping Marv would think that two other robbers beat him to the job and one of them killed the other.

When Harry knocked on the door one of the kids may have just opened the door and let him in. Seeing how he now has permission to enter the house he doesn't need a warrant. And they obviously noticed him. But due to the chaos of trying to get everything organised for the big trip, nobody was paying much attention to him.

No one has answered this question yet.

Because he's luring them to the Murphy's house.

Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas. While home alone, Kevin is forced to defend the family's home from two bungling burglars, Harry Lyme (Joe Pesci) and Marv Merchants (Daniel Stern), who have been robbing neighboring homes and leaving the water faucets running, earning them the name of 'The Wet Bandits'.

Home Alone is based on a screenplay by producer John Hughes. However, the movie along with the next two were novelized by Todd Strasser. The concept for Home Alone came from a scene in Uncle Buck (1989) in which Macaulay Culkin, who plays Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Miles Russell in Uncle Buck, fires off a series of questions to a would-be-babysitter through a letterbox opening in the front door. Due to the success of Home Alone, four movie sequels have since been released: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Home Alone 3 (1997), Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002), and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012).

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Kevin has two brothers, Jeff (Michael C. Maronna) and Buzz (Devin Ratray), and two sisters, Megan (Hillary Wolf) and Linnie (Angela Goethals). This is corroborated by the number of stockings hanging on their fireplace (two large ones and five smaller ones), the family photo to which Kevin says goodnight when he's watching The Johnny Carson Show, and also in the scene where Kevin tells Santa he only wants his family back, nothing but Peter, Kate, Buzz, Megan, Linnie, and Jeff. Jeff is the one who throws his bag down the stairs and shouts "bomb's away". Megan is the one who calls Kevin "completely helpless". Linnie is the one who counts him among "les incompetents". Peter (John Heard) and Kate (Catherine O'Hara) McCallister are their parents. Of the other eight people staying overnight at the McCallisters' house, Uncle Frank (Gerry Bamman) and Aunt Leslie (Terrie Snell) McCallister must be the parents of the three kids wearing thick, horn-rimmed glasses—Rod (Jedidiah Cohen), Brooke (Anna Slotky), and Fuller (Kieran Culkin). The oldest cousin, Heather McCallister (Kristin Minter), says that her parents live in Paris. Tracy (Senta Moses) (the girl with the long, kinky hair who is looking for shampoo) and Sondra (Diana Rein) (the girl with the braided hair) both tell the "policeman" that their parents don't live there. Final proof of Kevin having four brothers and sisters is in the scene where only Jeff, Buzz, Megan, and Linnie return from Paris with Peter. Apparently, everyone else is still in Paris.

Their jobs are not mentioned in the film. The novelization says that his father is a successful businessman and his mother is a fashion designer, which accounts for all the mannequins that Kevin used to stage the "party".

During the night, there was a windstorm that blew down some tree branches on their power lines, cutting off their electricity and resetting their alarm clocks.

Kevin's ticket was tossed in the trash when his father wiped up after Kevin spilled milk all over the passports and tickets. While getting into the car to go to the airport, Heather miscounted because the neighbor kid was in line with the rest of the family. Finally, the gate agent appears to be simply counting the McCallisters' tickets instead of matching names with people. Without a ticket for Kevin, no one apparently noticed that he was not in the group. Prior to 9/11, airport security was often quite lax, especially for domestic flights.

Kevin saw the family cars in the garage and concluded that the family had not gone to the airport, so he didn't know that they were on their way to Paris. In his 8-year-old imagination, he believed that he really wished his family to disappear. After that, he's afraid to go to the police because he thinks that he would get in trouble for stealing (albeit accidentally) the toothbrush. This is evidenced by his earlier line: "I'm a criminal".

Additionally, some have theorized that Kevin doesn't trust the police after realizing that Harry was the same "officer" who visited the house prior to everyone's departure.

Not in the movie. In the novelization, his name is Axl.

No. That movie, titled Angels with Filthy Souls on the video cassette, was created for Home Alone. However, it was patterned after a real movie, Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) (1938) starring James Cagney.

Marv had grabbed Kevin's foot and was trying to stop him from running upstairs to the attic. Kevin saw Buzz's tarantula, which had escaped after Kevin broke Buzz's bedroom shelves. Kevin picked it up and placed it on Marv's face, causing Marv to scream in fear, forcing him to let go of Kevin.

Old Man Marley is the McCallisters' neighbor. Buzz tells Kevin and Rod that Old Man Marley is a serial killer known as "the South Bend Shovel Slayer" and that he murdered his family in 1958 and kept the corpses of his victims in a garbage can full of salt. The salt supposedly turned the dead bodies into mummies. When Old Man Marley arrives at the church to hear his granddaughter sing, however, he reveals that he isn't the so-called "South Bender Shovel Slayer" and that he never murdered his family. He had had an argument with his son for an unknown reason and they had become estranged. When Kevin suggests to Old Man Marley that he should call his son, Marley says that he is afraid that his son won't talk to him. Kevin encourages him to do it anyway, not just for his son but for his granddaughter's sake. Marley takes Kevin's advice and reunites with his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter.

Kevin had been causing minor stirs and getting on everyone's nerves for most of the time leading up to the scene (i.e. whining about packing his suitcase). Disrupting everyone's dinner was simply the last straw in the eyes of everyone else. Additionally, Buzz is a cunning bully, often taunting or harassing Kevin subtly enough for no one else to notice.