
Kate decides to find him against the advice of Peter and the staff, while Mr. They manage to fly to New York City and once at the hotel, they confront the staff for letting Kevin check into there alone and then letting him escape. Meanwhile, in a one-room motel in Miami, the McCallisters discover that Kevin has been found using Peter's credit card and is on the run.

They gloat to Kevin that they escaped from prison and tell him about their plans of breaking into Duncan's Toy Chest that night, unaware that he is recording their conversation with his Talkboy, before he flees by hiding in the back of a hansom cab. Harry rips it up so that he can't get back home or to Miami. He escapes, but runs into Marv and Harry once again Marv takes his return ticket to Chicago, noting that it's for a round trip to Miami, and knows that he got on the wrong plane. He hides in another room and uses a gangster movie he watched the night before to trick them into believing that an insane guest with a gun is in the room. Hector, Cedric, the receptionist, and two security guards confront him about the stolen credit card. Before returning to the hotel, though, he runs into Marv and Harry, who had escaped from a prison in Chicago in a fish truck during a prison riot to continue their robberies in New York City, changing their name from the "Wet Bandits" to the "Sticky Bandits". Duncan allows him to take a pair of ceramic turtle doves as a gift from the store's Christmas tree before instructing him to give one to another person for friendship. Duncan, who tells him that the proceeds from the Christmas sales will go to the Children's Hospital. He passes by Donald Trump, then-owner of the hotel, who tells him the lobby is "down the hall and to the left." While there, he tours the city and visits Duncan's Toy Chest, where he meets the philanthropist owner, Mr. In New York City, Kevin gets surprised by the appearance of a lady tending to pigeons before checking into the Plaza Hotel, which he had heard mentioned on a game show the night before, using Peter's credit card from his wallet and his Talkboy to make him sound like Peter. Once in Miami, the McCallisters realize that he isn't there again and Kate faints after Peter shouts in disbelief "What?!" and the truth of the matter sinks into her mind herself. While Kevin changes the batteries in his Talkboy, he follows a man wearing the same color overcoat as Peter toward a flight to New York City. They hastily depart to O'Hare International Airport for the flight to Miami. The McCallisters accidentally oversleep on the day of the flight due to Peter accidentally resetting the clock radio. When Kate reminds him that he got his wish the year before and that maybe he'll get it again this year, he replies, "I hope so!" Later, Buzz apologizes to Kevin and the rest of the family, but Kevin refuses to do so, and does not want to accept Buzz's apologies, and also reiterates his disgust with their decision to go to Miami before he storms up to the third floor bedroom, wishing that he had his own money so he could go on his own vacation by himself. At the school's Christmas pageant, Kevin's oldest brother, Buzz, humiliates him during his solo, causing him to punch Buzz in the stomach, which knocks over the other choir members and sends one of the cardboard Christmas trees crashing down onto the pianist. Kevin, Peter and Kate's youngest son, finds that "there's no Christmas trees" there but palm trees instead, which bugs him.

The film was followed by Home Alone 3 in 1997, Home Alone 4 in 2002, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist in 2012, and Home Sweet Home Alone in 2021 - all without Culkin in the lead roles (and without any of the original characters in all except Home Alone 4).Ī year after the events in the previous film, the McCallisters prepare to spend Christmas in Miami. Also, it became the second most successful movie of 1992, earning over $173 million in revenue in the United States and over $358 million worldwide, but was badly received by critics. The film was filmed in Winnteka and Oak Park, Illinois, O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Miami, and New York City (which was Culkin's hometown at the time). Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Tim Curry, Rob Schneider, Dana Ivey, and Brenda Fricker are also featured, and Eddie Bracken, Ally Sheedy, Bob Eubanks, and Donald Trump make cameo appearances in it. It features Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern. It was written and produced by John Hughes, based on the characters he created, and directed by Chris Columbus.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (originally titled Alone Again) is the first sequel to the 1990 film Home Alone. The poster for the film's theatrical release
