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Grade B19 sourcesHIS-01428

Home Alone

Film · 1990 · Breakout

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Home Alone led the domestic box office for 12 consecutive weekends.

Trailer · Park Circus on YouTube
Clip · Cinemassacre on YouTube
Original Home Alone theatrical poster: Kevin's scream between the two burglars
Box Office Mojo
Home Alone key art: Kevin's scream on a green background
20th Century Fox (distributor); John Hughes (writer-producer)
Kevin slaps on aftershave and screams in the bathroom mirror
TIME
Macaulay Culkin as an adult re-creating a Home Alone scene for Google Assistant, 2018
The Hollywood Reporter
The Home Alone house lit up at night for the 2021 Airbnb stay
Airbnb
The real Home Alone house in Winnetka, Illinois
Kidfly182 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

Spread Score

How it works
Reach89Contagion45Breadth80VelocityNo data yetLongevity10079

Numbers

Worldwide gross, Box Office Mojo; includes rereleases
$477.4M
As of Oct 23, 2026 · Box Office Mojo
Peak proxy date
Week of Dec 28, 1990
Nov 10 ’90 to Week of Dec 28, 1990
Platforms
6
Started on Box office
Leverage
26×
$477.4M on $18.2M budget

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Home Alone opened nationwide after public previews and led the domestic box office for twelve weekends. VHS, annual Christmas broadcasts and fan clips extended its audience. Google later remade scenes with Culkin, and Airbnb offered a stay in the house.

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Aug ’89Dec ’90Sep ’91May ’94May ’00May ’06Aug ’11Sep ’15Aug ’18Aug ’20Dec ’22Nov ’24Box officePressRetailFacebookYouTubeOpen web
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Timeline (16)

  1. November 1990

    20th Century Fox seed · Nov 10 ’90

    Fox held public sneak previews before the nationwide release.[1]

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  2. 20th Century Fox commercial · Nov 16 ’90

    Fox released Home Alone nationwide in the United States.[2][1]

    Home Alone key art: Kevin's scream on a green background

  3. Los Angeles Times / Peter Rainer press · Nov 16 ’90

    Peter Rainer praised Culkin's comic timing but criticized the film's violence and sentimentality.[3]

  1. commercial · Week of Nov 16, 1990

  2. commercial · Week of Nov 23, 1990

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Origin
Mixed
Sector
Entertainment
Region
US
Worldwide gross, Box Office Mojo; includes rereleases
$477.4M
As of Oct 23, 2026 · Box Office Mojo
Evidence
Grade B

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