Home Alone is far more than just a great holiday movie, as it also sent actor Macaulay Culkin into the stratosphere as a household name. Culkin's presence dominated the early 1990s through his roles in family films like My Girl and Uncle Buck. Nevertheless, it was the Home Alone franchise that was responsible for his immense popularity as he starred as the mischievous yet resourceful Kevin McCallister. Critically acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes — who was behind teen comedies like Sixteen Candles and Ferris Bueller's Day Off — both wrote and produced the Home Alone films, which became instant classics.
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