Culkin grew up, but his little face is looking from the screen. Films about Kevin, who celebrates Christmas alone, are known and loved by many. The first of this series entered the Guinness Book of Records. But there is another remake - “Alone at Home 4” - the film (2002), whose actors are different. And most importantly, another Kevin.
Kevin
Actor Mike Winberg, who starred as Kevin, was no longer new to the set. He acted in films for the fifth time, and he was then nine years old. It can be seen that the guy is capable: in the scenes where he dances, he is unusually plastic, and close-ups demonstrate a moving facial expression. The charming gaze of blue eyes, now full of tears, now widened with horror, then radiating love. I would like to see something else with his participation. The boy is artistic. Maybe due to the fact that his older brother is actor Matt Winberg. Or maybe because he was born in Los Angeles.
The young actor has sixteen film works. After the series “The Life of Zach and Cody,” he quit his acting career due to his studies at the University of Michigan. His full name is Michael Andrew Winberg. Born in 1993. Now he is an entrepreneur engaged in the show.
Natalie, stepmother
This time, the plot was changed: McKalister’s parents no longer live together, his father went to a young successful socialite Natalie and lives in her large “smart house”, where you can use the electronic key to command an elevator, a vacuum cleaner, a door and all other items. Kevin independently comes to them by taxi, giving the piggy bank with a trifle in payment. Natalie does not show her disappointment and tries to distract Kevin from talking with his father with gifts.
Natalie plays Joanna Going, who previously starred in the series. On the big screen, by the time of filming, she already had five roles. The actress looks young, despite her thirty-nine years (she is now 54 years old). Until the end of the film, the intrigue remains, why did my father leave the family. At first, mom explains to Kevin that this is not because of him and not because of her. In the process of developing the action, his father tells Kevin that he first left the family and then found Natalie.
The actors of the 2002 film “Home Alone 4” were selected to create images of thirty-year-old characters. Kevin’s father says that he and his mother created a family very young. It is evident that he loves his son and even stays at home with him for one evening. Natalie controls all the time spent not with her, and in a hurry to announce the engagement. Actress Joanna Going plays a serious, but not able to sympathize with the girl.
Who is the boss here
A couple of delinquent criminals in the movie Home alone 4, and that's what the original movie is called, is played by French Stewart and Missy Pyle. These oversized boobs, apparently, lingered in childhood: they always find out which of them is the main one. But in the course of the film, it turns out that the maid, an elderly sweet lady, is the real accomplice of the criminals. She is the mother of a loser bandit. And she planned the whole operation.
According to her plan, it is necessary to abduct the prince, who will be brought to stay with Natalie. Mommy expects a big ransom. She was played by Barbara Babcock, and very convincingly: until she herself admitted to Kevin aiding kidnappers, she was perceived as a friend and a very sweet old lady.
This sweet lady shows everyone who is the boss here and takes the operation into her own hands. But she did not take into account that Kevin can easily cope with any criminals! When he, along with the butler, was locked in the basement, everything turned out, they became friends, and Kevin phoned his mother on a cell phone. The connection was poor and she called back herself. The heroine of Barbara picked up the phone and assured her that Kevin had left with everyone. Then mother calls the ex-husband, but he assures that the son remained at home. As a result, after some time, the whole family drives up to Natalie’s house.
All is well that ends well
The actors of the movie “Home Alone 4” (2002) appear in the final scene when the police arrive and arrest the attackers. It is symbolic that a butler stands with the Kevin family. He announces a decision to quit. Natalie does not approach them, wondering: what happened? The police take the maid out with their hands tied. Nobody works at Natalie anymore.
Then Kevin's father admits that he wanted to try a beautiful life, but he realized that it was not his. He loves his wife and children and returns to them. Everyone hugs, Natalie breathes in a bag.
This film met a lot of undeserved criticism. This is natural: it was risky to exploit the plot for the fourth time, but director Rod Daniel, who shot K-9, and screenwriter John Hughes, who wrote the scripts for the films Home Alone and Home Alone 2, got down to business.
Why didn’t they choose the actors they knew? The answer is simple and sad: the children grew up. The actors of the movie “Alone at Home 4” (2002) are much younger - because this is a children's film. In the comments, viewers agree on one thing - if you do not look back at the old versions, the film is good.