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No. The first movie in the Home Alone series, Home Alone (1990), was based on a screenplay by producer John Hughes. The movie has subsequently been novelized by Todd Strasser. The concept for Home Alone came from a scene in Uncle Buck (1989) in which Macaulay Culkin, who plays Miles Russell in Uncle Buck and Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2, 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 and Home Alone 2, two more sequels have since been released: Home Alone 3 (1997), and Home Alone 4 (2002).

As usual, the McCallisters' alarm doesn't go off (since Peter unintentionally reset it by unplugging it), so it's a mad dash to O'Hare Airport to make their plane. Kevin stops to put some batteries in his Talkboy, then follows a man wearing the same camel-colored overcoat as his dad, Peter (John Heard), thinking that the man IS his dad. Unfortunately, the man is on his way to New York City. The gate attendant does not see that Kevin is getting on the wrong plane because she dropped all the tickets just after Kevin handed over his ticket. Kevin is allowed to board when he points out the man in the overcoat and identifies him from behind as his father. The gate closes behind him and, before he knows it, Kevin is in the air.

He says that he is from France and that this is his first trip to America. Then he asks if there are any good places to eat and also asks if Kevin knows any French and states that he doesn't know English. After that, Kevin puts in his Talkboy earplugs. It's because the man doesn't speak English and Kevin has his earplugs in when the stewardess says "Welcome aboard American Airlines' Flight 176 nonstop to New York" that Kevin does not realize he's on the wrong airplane.

Harry Lime (Joe Pesci) and Marv Merchants (Daniel Stern), the thieves who called themselves the "Wet Bandits" when they were working Chicago last Christmas, broke out of jail during a prison riot and made their way to New York. A headline of their escape can be seen on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times when it blows against the front door of the McCallister house the night before they leave for Miami. The "Wet Bandits" have renamed themselves the "Sticky Bandits" because Marv has come up with a new gimmick of pasting double-sided tape on his gloves so that, when he sticks his hand in a purse, his gloves will come out covered with loot.

When they arrive in Miami and go to pick up their luggage. They hand down Kevin's suitcase from McCallister to McCallister until Fuller McCallister (Kieran Culkin) finally notices that Kevin is not there. When Kate McCallister (Catherine O'Hara), Kevin's mom, realizes that he's missing again, she promptly faints.

It was called Angels with Even Filthier Souls. It's the sequel to Angels with Filthy Souls, the movie that Kevin was watching on video cassette in Home Alone. Both movies were created for Home Alone. However, they were patterned after a real movie...Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) starring James Cagney.

When Kevin was separated from his parents in the O'Hare Airport, he was carrying his father's airline bag so that he could get out some batteries for his Talkboy. Also in that bag was Peter's wallet, credit cards, and cash.

Kevin realizes that the toy store the Sticky Bandits plan to hit at midnight is Duncan's Toy Chest and that all the money for the Children's Hospital will be stolen, so he decides to fashion an elaborate set of traps to foil Marv and Harry. Fortunately, his Uncle Rob and Aunt Georgette are out of town while their house is being renovated, so he has a whole arsenal of stuff at his disposal, e.g., paint, tar, varnish, jumper cables, fire extinguishers, bricks, paint rollers, wood, saws, rope, kerosene, etc. He uses these items to plan "Operation Ho Ho Ho", and then heads over to Duncans. First, he uses his Talkboy to photograph Marv and Harry while they are busy robbing the tills. Next, he tosses a rock through the store window, setting off the burglar alarm. Then he leads the bungling burglars to Uncle Rob's house where "Operation Ho Ho Ho" begins. Marv and Harry are catapulted, whacked by bricks, buried under cans of paint, electrocuted, blow-torched, knocked down flights of stairs, and chased by fire up a kerosene-soaked rope, never getting seriously injured, of course. Finally, Kevin calls 911 to report them and then leads them into Central Park. Unfortunately, he slips on some ice and hits his head. When he comes to, Marv and Harry are standing over him. When they are just about to shoot him, the bird lady (Brenda Fricker) tosses a bag of birdseed on the bandits, and immediately they are covered by hungry pigeons. Kevin then lights a string of firecrackers, leading the police right to them.

Meanwhile, the Miami police have located Kevin through the use of Peter's credit card, and the family has flown to New York City where they chew out the hotel concierge, Mr Hector (Tim Curry) for his failure to detain Kevin once he found out that the credit cards were stolen. While Peter goes to the police station, Kate grabs a cab and begins searching New York City for her lost son. They are finally reunited under the giant Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center. The next morning -- Christmas morning -- the family awakens to a huge array of presents, having been sent to their Plaza Hotel suite by Mr Duncan as thanks for Kevin capturing the Sticky Bandits. While the family is opening the presents, Kevin takes his two turtledoves into the park and gives one to the bird lady so that they will be friends forever. In the final scene, Peter gets the $967.43 bill for Kevin's two days of room service.

The Twelve Days of Christmas, in which the recipient gets from her true love: 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a-leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a-milking, seven swans a-swimming, six geese a-laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree!

No. Although Duncan's Toy Chest is based on a real store (FAO Schwarz), the shop used in the film does not exist.

When he realizes that he's landed in New York City, Kevin hires a cab and goes on a tour. One of the places he stops is Chinatown, where he can be seen coming out of Quong Yuen Shing & Co and stuffing two packets of firecrackers in his bag.