Home Alone 3

A standalone sequel to Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), it follows Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy who defends his home from a dangerous band of international criminals working for a terrorist organization.

It is the third film in the Home Alone franchise, and the first not to feature actor Macaulay Culkin, director Chris Columbus, or composer John Williams; Gosnell had previously served as editor on the first two Home Alone films.

It is also the final film in the Home Alone franchise to receive a theatrical release.

The film received mixed to negative reviews, with critics praising Linz’s performance but criticizing the film’s departure from the previous installments, including its themes and cast.

Home Alone 3 was followed by a made-for-television sequel, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House, in 2002.

In Silicon Valley, California, they steal a $10 million missile-cloaking microchip and hide it inside a remote control toy car to sneak it past security at San Francisco International Airport.

However, a luggage mix-up causes a Chicago-bound elderly passenger named Mrs. Hess to inadvertently take the thieves’ bag containing the car.

The thieves arrive in Chicago and systematically search every house in Hess’s suburban neighborhood to find the chip. Eight-year-old Alex Pruitt is given the remote control car by Hess as payment for shoveling her driveway.

He returns home and discovers that he has chicken pox and must stay home from school. The next day, Alex discovers the thieves while spying on his neighbors and involves the police, but they are unable to help.

Alex attaches a camera to the remote control car and uses it to spy on them, leading to the thieves chasing it when they spot it. Wondering what they want with the toy car, Alex opens it and discovers the stolen chip. He calls the local U.S.

Air Force Recruitment Center about the discovery and asks if they can forward the information about the chip to the right authorities. The thieves finally realize that Alex has been watching them and decide to break into the Pruitt house.

Alex rigs the house with handmade booby traps with help from his pet rat Doris and his brother Stan’s loud-mouthed parrot. The thieves break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries.

While the quartet pursues Alex around the house, he flees and rescues Hess, who has been duct taped to a chair in her garage by Ribbons. Beaupre ambushes Alex, but the latter uses a bubble gun resembling a Glock to scare him off.

FBI agents and the police later arrive and arrest Ribbons, Jernigan, and Unger, having received a tip from the recruitment center. However, Beaupre hides in a makeshift snow fort in the backyard.

Stan’s parrot discovers him and threatens to light fireworks, which are lined around the inside. Beaupre offers a cracker in exchange for silence, but the parrot demands two.

Since Beaupre has only one, the parrot lights the fireworks, alerting the authorities to Beaupre’s location. That evening, the Pruitts, Mrs.

Hess, and the authorities hold a celebration for Alex as the Pruitt house is being repaired, with Alex’s father Jack returning home from a business trip.

At the police department, the thieves are shown to have contracted Alex’s chicken pox during their mugshots.