2012 · comedy · family · tv-movie
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Directed by Peter Hewitt1h 30m2012
10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
Our read: Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · family · tv-movie entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / family, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- intimate
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