30 years Home Alone

On November 10, 1990 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, the premiere of the Christmas comedy "Home Alone" took place. Directed by Chris Columbus.

In early 1991, "Home Alone" was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy Film. But the award in this category went to the film "Green Card" by Peter Weir. The film by Chris Columbus, along with the beloved Russian spectators "Pretty Woman" and "Ghost", were left without an award.

A little later, "Home Alone" received two Oscar nominations, but only in music categories. And not one won.

The evaluations of the film by professional film critics were very mixed. Caryn James from The New York Times, who highly appreciated the film, called it the first Christmas black comedy for modern children who, upon meeting Santa Claus, before accepting a gift from him, will demand his passport."

Hall Hinson from The Washington Post in his film review wrote that "junky, rambunctiously funny "Home Alone" is every kid's anarchical wish come true."

But the guru of American film critic Roger Ebert was unhappy with the film, rating it with only two and a half stars out of four possible. In his review, he wrote that from the first minutes of the film, its implausibility becomes clear, and the viewer only has to "sit back, detached, to watch stunt men and special effects guys take over a movie that promised to be the kind of story audiences could identify with."

The audience gave their assessment of the film: the total box office amounted to $ 467.7 million, which is almost 26 times higher than the film's budget of $ 18 million. 66% of IMDB and Kinopoisk users gave the film ratings from 8 to 10.

With that said, rating of the "Home Alone" by Chris Columbus according to FilmGourmand's version is 7,976, placing it at 736th in the Golden Thousand.