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Home Alone 3 is a 1997 family film and the third film in the Home Alone Series. It was originally going to star the original cast but 20th Century Fox did not allow Chris Columbus (director of the first two films) and John Hughes to film it back to back with Home Alone 2. Then they re-cast the film with Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, a resourceful boy who is left home alone, replacing the character portrayed in the previous films by Macaulay Culkin.
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Home Alone 3 is a 1997 family film and the third film in the Home Alone Series. It was originally going to star the original cast but 20th Century Fox did not allow Chris Columbus (director of the first two films) and John Hughes to film it back to back with Home Alone 2. Then they re-cast the film with Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt, a resourceful boy who is left home alone, replacing the character portrayed in the previous films by Macaulay Culkin. The film was written by John Hughes and directed by Raja Gosnell, the latter being the editor of both Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. It was followed by another sequel, Home Alone 4.
Plot
Peter Beaupre (Olek Krupa) is the leader of a quartet of thieves who have stolen a valuable air force computer chip for a North Korean terrorist group. They put it inside a toy remote control car to sneak it past security. At San Francisco International Airport, however, Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes) accidentally takes the bag with the remote control car. The thieves then come to Chicago and systematically search every house in Mrs. Hess's suburb to find the chip.
8-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz) is then given the remote control car by Mrs. Hess as a reward for shoveling snow. He soon becomes ill with the chicken pox and must stay home. While he is at home, he sees the thieves through his telescope and calls the police. The thieves leave by the time the police come. After Alex reports the thieves again, they still manage to get away, and the police don't believe him. Alex then decides to take matters into his own hands ("If nobody's gonna do anything about this, I'll just have to do it myself", according to him). He mounts a camera on his remote controlled car and tries to film some footage of the thieves, who are now residing in a vacated house. He successfully films the thief, however the car is discovered before it can get away and the thieves take the tape, leaving Alex with nothing.
Finally, the thieves realize that Alex has the chip, and go after him. They block off the alleyway behind the house, and Alice ties up Mrs. Hess in her garage and leaves the door open. By this point, Alex has already armed the house with booby traps. After several attempts in getting in the house, they go chase Alex. He runs up to the attic and goes into the laundry elevator to the basement. He then runs outside and calls to the thieves. They see him and notice the trampoline below them. Two of them jump, however the trampoline gives way and they fall in the frozen pool. Alice then wriggles her way into the laundry elevator chute but then falls down all the way down to the basement.
Meanwhile the FBI, who has also been tracking down the chip, go to his school and ask for Alex. Alex's family brings the agents to their house, where the police arrest three of the four thieves. Beaupre, however, managed to escape and hides in the igloo in the backyard. Stan's parrot, meanwhile, drives the RC car into the igloo and threatens to light the fireworks which are lined around the inside. Beaupre offers a cracker, but the parrot demands two. Since he only has one cracker, the parrot then lights the fireworks, and escapes. The entire igloo erupts with fireworks with Beaupre in it, and the police arrest him.
Alex and his family celebrate with their dad returning. He even gets a surprise for Alex: another remote control car. In the final scene, where the four thieves are having their mugshot photos taken, they are shown to have Alex's chicken pox.
Reception
The film grossed $79,000,000 worldwide, a respectable number, though it paled in comparison to the $478,000,000 gross of the first and the $359,000,000 gross of the second.
Characters
The main characters include:
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