Masters & Disasters: Home Alone (1990) vs Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

One features the Wet Bandits and one is just a damp squib, despite the CGI pyrotechnics. In this special Christmas edition of Masters and Disasters we unpack why 1991's 'Home Alone' is a festive classic but this year's 'Home Sweet Home Alone' is definitely not sweet and best left alone. Child trafficking, OJ jokes, the institutional racism of American police - how is this movie not a beloved family classic already?! 

 

SHOW NOTES: 

Just one of the many, MANY tracks on Bob Dylan's album "Christmas In The Heart," which you can have in your heart but which isn't recommended for aural consumption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWd-IsevG_A 

 

Home Alone & Joseph Campbell's 12 stages of the hero:  https://youtu.be/wnlpo5n7x5Q 

The Black Knight showing no pain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRwCPUEND1U 

Steve Martin TRYING not to show pain in his consultation with Caine's fake Doctor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXUI7bb2wLc 

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