No, he could not call the police. A tree fell on his phone line and disconnected his house.
And his parents did notify the police, but the police were, A: completely incredulous, B: completely incompetent and uninterested. They came and knocked on the door, but Kevin was still scared and confused and was hiding under his parents bed the whole time. The cop just gave up and left.
Source: I watched the movie again… and I am going to do so this year along with a Die Hard trilogy (I never watched the third movie) marathon.
Die Hard With a Vengeance isn’t a Christmas movie but IMHO it’s the best of the series
He thinks his family actually disappeared. He remarks that they couldn’t have gone to Paris, because their cars are still in the garage. The garage having been left open is even a plot point, to allow Kevin to make this realization quicker.
He does eventually call the police. It’s the last step of his plan. He calls them to his neighbor’s house.
The movie is seriously bulletproof. Like how Kevin spills Pepsi on his ticket and we see it accidentally get thrown in the garbage the night before.
Fun story:
When my daughter met Santa Claus for the first time, she’d recently seen Home Alone and was obsessed, and she introduced herself as Kevin.
When it was time to take a picture I said, “Ok [daughter’s name which in all fairness does have an “ev” sound in it], get in Santa’s sleigh.”
Then Santa leaned over and whispered, “Ohh. I thought she said her name was Kevin.”
“Yeah, no, she did say Kevin.”
Santa thought that was weird.
He knew the police would likely put him into child protective services due to parental negligence and decided he’d deal with that shit himself.
Or he was just too afraid to contact the police. Remember, this took place in the USA, where people have reason to fear them.
He was white and from a wealthy family, he’d be fine.
His neighborhood was an upper-middle class family who were fucking loaded. Cops kiss up to the wealthy.
He did call the police
And the quality of the police work was documentary level realism for a Hollywood movie.
Didn’t he not trust the cops because Pesci pretended to be a cop in the opening scene, in order to case the house?
He didnt call the police because the phone lines are being worked on in one of the opening scenes before we even see the McCallisters and presumably are down.
His parents couldn’t even call home to make sure he was okay.
Yeah I know that but he was able to leave. He went grocery shopping. Iirc the storm took out the lines just to his house, maybe the neighborhood.
Pretty sure only long distance lines were down. Local calls were still good which is how he ordered the Pizza.
There’s no difference between those lines at the local level. The only long distance lines would be the oceanic ones.
So, you’re saying someone(s) in his family orchestrated the “accident” of leaving him behind and taking a flight to escape his inevitable psychotic break?
That tracks.
The entire family was in on it. They spent exorbitant amounts of money trying to get away from him, three times, and he mercilessly tracked them down across the globe, casually dispatching away the hitmen they sent after him
I would watch this —especially if it were done today w/ Caulkin reprising his role. (and entirely ignoring the very existence of the recent “sequel”, ofc)
This is Kevin now. Feel.old yet?
Didn’t the storm knock the phone lines out? That’s why Moira didn’t call the house and called the cops to try and get them to do a wellness check.
Yes.
This movie is nearly bulletproof. John Hughes thought of every plausible hole and plugged it. He was a genius.
He calls and orders a pizza
Because later the lines get fixed.
Kevin also didn’t want his parents to get in trouble so he didn’t call the cops
Wasn’t he under the impression his parents (and all of his family, really) had ceased to exist?
“I made my family disappear.” 😈
Kevin is a shop lifter after he panics with the tooth brush. Since he learned never to trust cops, he assumes he’d get thrown in jail like the hardened criminal he is… And then there’s the cop who’s trying to break into his house. Yeah, can’t blame him for not making that call.
Yeah, the first movie pretty clearly lays out why he didn’t want to call the cops. Also, IIRC, the snow storm knocked out the phone lines. His parents mention that they can’t get ahold of him because the lines are down. So he couldn’t have called them even if he tried.
The second movie though? He was a predator stalking his prey. He wasn’t just a victim of a break-in. He actively lured them to his twisted funhouse, and didn’t call the cops until the very end when he wanted them to get caught red-handed.
He learned what he was good at… And what he enjoyed.
He has a particular set of skills.
The McAllisters are the family he gets sent to live with after the good son.
That movie is fucked
But the part we always forget is that the robber was the “cop” that had come to the house the night before the trip.
So this kid was like the cops are so corrupt I have to deal with this on my own.
That’s a really good point I never thought of.
Is it realistic that he didn’t have any other friends / trusted adults in the community?
As a movie though the suspension of disbelief is pretty good. Phone lines are down, neighbors are on vacation too, …
The McAllister’s are rich as hell. All their friends are too. The whole neighborhood went on vacation except that one old guy.
Didn’t even think of that. You’re right.
and that’s what we should all learn from him
HA1 was in Chicago. CPD is half as corrupt as NYPD
HA2 was in New York. NYPD is half as corrupt as LAPD.
LAPD is corruption incarnate.
Kevin had no other choice. besides he was staying in a hotel with a human trafficker and pedophile, things were already dangerous enough as it was.
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“One call and he would’ve been safe”
By calling the cops? Lol, good joke.
CSP would be all over this. He’d be in foster care before his family got back.
“Safe”
*CPS
At least it’s not SCP.
My bad, a bit frustrated…
It’s alright, bro. Kevin’s not real.
Kevin: Hello officer, I was left alone at home.
Officer: Sure kid, let me call for someone to pick you up… Zed? The spider just caught a little fly.
