Culkin rose to fame with his lead role of Kevin McCallister in the blockbuster comedy film Home Alone (1990). The film reunited him with Uncle Buck writer and director John Hughes and Uncle Buck co-star John Candy, who played the role of Polka band member Gus Polinski.

Nov 16, 1990 · Home Alone: Directed by Chris Columbus. With Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard. An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.

The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year old boy who defends his Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leave him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.

In 1992 came Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), which grossed more than $172 million in the US alone. In 1993 came The Good Son (1993), which was the first role to depart from his cute kid comedies. He played a murderous little demon named Henry.

Dec 1, 2023 · Written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Christopher Columbus, the film follows the antics of Kevin McCallister, played by Macaulay Culkin, as he is accidentally left behind by...

Jan 9, 2025 · Macaulay Culkin (born August 26, 1980, New York City, New York, U.S.) is an American actor who rose to fame in John Hughes’s 1990 box office hit Home Alone and quickly became one of the most famous child actors of the 1990s.

1 day ago · More than three decades after they filmed Home Alone, Catherine O’Hara still has a soft spot in her heart for movie son Macaulay Culkin. “He’s just a lovely young man,” O’Hara, 70 ...

Apr 12, 2021 · His stardom hit meteoric proportions the following year when he starred in the wildly successful holiday comedy Home Alone. The film was the highest-grossing film of the year and spawned a...

He became famous as a child actor for his role as Kevin McCallister in the family comedy Home Alone (1990) and its sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992). In Home Alone 4, he was replaced by Mike Weinberg. Culkin's younger brother, Kieran Culkin, is also seen in the first two films, as Kevin's younger cousin Fuller McCallister.

Jan 19, 2025 · Home Alone, Christmas family comedy film released in 1990 about the adventures of Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy, played by Macaulay Culkin, who has to fend for himself and thwart the attempts of a pair of bungling burglars trying to break into his family’s house after he is inadvertently