Home Alone 3 is a 1997 family film and third film in the Home Alone series. It was originally going to star the original cast but 20th Century Fox did not allow Chris Columbus (Director of the first two films) and John Hughes film it back to back with Home Alone 2. Then they re cast the film stars with Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, the resourceful boy who is left home alone, replacing the character portrayed in the previous films by Macaulay Culkin. The film was written by John Hughes and directed by Raja Gosnell, the latter being the editor of both Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. This film was followed by another sequel, Home Alone 4.

• Tagline: It's Bad News For The Bad Guys... Again
• Ready For More... Much More
• There's a New Kid On The Block

Plot

The film centers on Alex Pruitt, a young boy who is left home alone because he is sick. At this time, four criminals working for a North Korean terrorist group are sent by their boss to obtain a top-secret microchip that can act as a cloaking device for a missile. They succeed in obtaining the chip and hide it in a remote controlled car, but due to a luggage mix up at the airport with an old woman, the car lands in the hands of Alex who lives down the street from her and is given to him for snow-shoveling her driveway. Alex finds out about the chip in the car, and that terrorists are looking for it. So he sets up traps in his home when his house becomes their target. In the end the spies get caught by the police.

Reception

The film had "only" grossed 30 million dollars , a respectable number, though it paled in comparison to the 285 million dollar gross of the first and the 173 million dollar gross of the second. However, the series still retains a following - Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert liked the film much more than its predecessors. The movie was released on DVD on October 12, 2004.

Characters

The main characters include:

• Alex Pruitt — (Alex D. Linz) an eight-year-old kid living in suburban Chicago.
• Peter Beaupre — (Olek Krupa) leader of the four robbers.
• Alice Rivens — (Rya Kihlstedt) sole female of the robbers.
• Burton Jernigan — (Lenny Von Dohlen) one of the robbers.
• Earl Unger — (David Thornton) one of the robbers. He has a tendency to express his hatred toward children.
• Karen Pruitt — (Haviland Morris) Alex's mother.
• Jack Pruitt — (Kevin Kilner) Alex's father, who had a meeting in Cleveland, Ohio to see his boss. On the day he was supposed to leave Chicago, his plane was delayed as Stan said, "Dad missed his plane".
• Mrs. Hess — (Marian Seldes) Alex's neighbor. When she was about to return home in Chicago, she had the same bag as the spies, which had the toy car. Her bag had a sourdough bread. When she returned home, she gave the toy car to Alex.
• Stan Pruitt — (Seth Smith) Alex's older brother.
• Molly Pruitt — (Scarlett Johansson) Alex's older sister.

References to other media

• Jamie Foxx's song Experiment from his 1994 album Peep This can be seen when Alex is switching Mrs. Hess TV with a TV remote
• In one scene, the parrot sings Jim Croce's "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown."

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