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Home Alone 3

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Home Alone 3 is a 1997 American Christmas family comedy film. It's the third installment in the Home Alone series. It was written and produced by John Hughes, but Chris Columbus didn't return to direct — that role was given to Raja Gosnell, editor of the first two films (and future director of Big Momma's House, the live-action Scooby-Doo movies, and Beverly Hills Chihuahua).The film has a completely different cast (i.e. Kevin was replaced by Alex Pruitt, played by Alex D. Linz), but was otherwise still similar to the first movie. In fact, many of the characters are very much like the characters of the previous movies, with one exception: the stupid burglars, wanted by the local police, were replaced with a ring of four (at least somewhat) intelligent spies/smugglers wanted by the FBI, making the traps less believable.
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Watch Where You're Going!
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Watch Where You're Going!: Alice chases after the remote controlled car towards a hedge, unaware that Beaupre is running from the other side to intercept it. They jump from opposite directions at the exact same time, and their heads collide.
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left
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Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Subverted when three out of four of the terrorists are captured by the police at the end, but it seems like Beaupre, their leader, got away. However, it turns out he was just hiding inside a mini-igloo in the backyard when the snarly parrot exposes him.
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Bloodless Carnage
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Bloodless Carnage: Burton Jernigan has a running lawnmower dropped onto his face. We hear agonizing screaming and the scene cuts away. The next time we see him, all he has is a wacky new haircut. And before that, Beaupre and Unger get a trunk full of books dropped on them from a floor up. They act more like they were each hit in the head with a single book. That being said, it did look as if they might have deflected some of the impact with their arms.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Taken to whole new levels. The new villains aren't petty house robbers, they're part of a terrorist organization! Alice actually ties Mrs. Hess up in a garage and then leaves the door open, exposing her to the freezing weather conditions. She's not far from unconsciousness when she's finally rescued.
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Hero Antagonist
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Hero Antagonist: Alex can count, as the main focus seems to be the criminals trying to get the chip.
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I Can See You
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I Can See You: When the thieves reach the attic, Jernigan finds the television and cameras that Alex had been using.
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Underestimating Badassery
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Underestimating Badassery: Practically all of the initial Amusing Injuries the crooks suffer are a direct result of dismissing Alex as Just a Kid.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: Lampshaded by Unger when the police find him and Jernigan frozen in the swimming pool:
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Smuggling with Dolls
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Smuggling with Dolls: The villains hide the microchip inside a toy car to get it across borders. The plan fails miserably when an old lady at the airport accidentally grabs the bag with the chip inside.
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Failed a Spot Check
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Failed a Spot Check: Several times by the criminals in regards to the trap, but the worst has to be when they think Alex escaped the third floor by jumping onto a trampoline. A trampoline with pristine undisturbed snow on it, meaning he couldn’t have possibly touched it.
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Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun: The pet parrot and rat were clearly there to assist Alex in his battle against the spies. Stan's firecrackers. Possibly also a Shout-Out to the way they are used in the first film by Kevin. Played for Laughs with Beaupre eating a single cracker from a pack of two and slips the other in his pocket. When the parrot begins to light the firecrackers and give him away, he offers it as a bribe, but the parrot has been trained to respond to treats with "double or nothing." When Beaupre admits he only has one, "we have ignition!"
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: Alex, when he discovers that he has the chickenpox, lets out a scream that gives Kevin a run for his money.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: When Peter Beaupre learns that Alex took the chip from the toy car, he gets angry and starts yelling at the boy in Polish: "I'm gonna crush you like a cockroach! Where's the disk?"note RozgniotÄ™ ciÄ™ jak karalucha! Gdzie jest dysk? (Yes, he actually called the chip "disk".) It helps that Beaupre's actor Aleksander "Olek" Krupa was born in Poland.
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No One Should Survive That!
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No One Should Survive That!: While not as dangerous overall as the traps in the second movie, there are a couple of traps that easily would've killed the criminals. Getting hit square in the head with the loaded barbell should've completely destroyed Beaupre and Unger's heads, and Alice (especially when you consider her positioning) should've immediately died on impact after falling down the dumbwaiter shaft.
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Breaking Old Trends
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Breaking Old Trends: While in the previous films Kevin’s family never learns of his encounters with Marv and Harry, and his story left untold, Alex’s family learns of his encounter the criminals and he gets made a hero in the end.
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin
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Hastily Hidden MacGuffin: The MacGuffin is a stolen computer chip that the villains hid in a remote control car to escape suspicion. After a mix-up at SFO, Mrs. Hess ends up with the car and gives it to Alex as payment for shoveling her drive.
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Batman Gambit
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Batman Gambit: Many of Alex's traps rely on either A) the crooks underestimating him because he's a kid, B) noticing a more obvious trap and trying to circumvent it, and/or C) being fed up enough from triggering previous traps that they will act hastily on a chance to capture him.
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Sequel Escalation
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Sequel Escalation: Big time! In the previous two movies, the stakes were that the Wet Bandits might pull off a robbery (either the McCallister house or a toy store). In this one, North Korea might blow up the world!
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: After suffering through several of his traps, the mercenaries pull their weapons and start clearing the house for Alex, though they end up grabbing the Idiot Ball toward the end.
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Gag Haircut
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Burton Jernigan has a running lawnmower dropped onto his face. We hear agonizing screaming and the scene cuts away. The next time we see him, all he has is a wacky new haircut.
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First-Name Basis
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First-Name Basis: Alice is always referred to by her first name, as opposed to her surname like her male compatriots. By the way, her surname is Ribbons, as revealed by Stuckey.
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Big Brother Bully
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Big Brother Bully: Stan and Molly are the brother and sister variant to Alex. They are largely dismissive and annoying to him throughout the film and after Alex calls in his second failed 911 call, they make a point of detailing all the harm he caused, including implying that their father will get fired from his job because of him and that the police will no longer respond to his calls anymore.
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
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Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: After the police fail to catch the spies twice, Alex decides to deal with the burglars himself by using his remote control car to film their next burglary in the act. When that eventually leads to the discovery of the chip, he calls an Air Force recruiting office, which then alerts the FBI. When he realizes the spies know where he lives, then he sets up the booby traps.
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You Dirty Rat!
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You Dirty Rat!: Averted by Doris, the white pet rat.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sure, Stan and Molly like to pick on Alex. However, when he's placed in a dangerous situation, their Big Sibling Instincts kick in. This is shown when they refuse to let Stuckey and the Feds leave without explaining why Alex is in danger.
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Earl Unger.
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"Rear Window" Witness
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"Rear Window" Witness: Alex is home sick from school and witnesses the burglary of a neighbor's home. Unfortunately for Alex, the authorities disregard his explanations.
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Villain Respect
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Villain Respect: Beaupre listens in on a call between Alex and his mother. During the call, Alex talks his mother into not returning home quickly and therefore keeping her out of harm's way, to which he remarks:
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Rule of Perception
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Rule of Perception: Beaupre can't tell he's holding a toy gun spray-painted black, despite it being about three pounds lighter than the Glock he'd been carrying and having a suction cup sticking out of the barrel. Granted, Alex apparently stores this particular toy gun in what looks like an actual gun case, so barring the suction cup ammunition it may have been modified to be much more realistic than most toys.
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Sympathetic Wince
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Sympathetic Wince: Alex winces and says "ouch" when the barbell falls on Beaupre and Unger's heads, although he is the one responsible for that. He also winces and widens his eyes when the boxing glove he hid in the closet hits Beaupre's privates.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the scene where Alex searches his drawer for a dog whistle to distract Alice Ribbons' dog with, sharp-eyed viewers will notice three Sega games inside it; Sonic 3D Blast for the Genesis, and Arcade Classics and Super Columns for the Game Gear.
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Only One Name
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Only One Name: Subverted. The full names of all four of the bad guys are revealed by Stuckey: Peter Beaupre, Earl Unger, Burton Jernigan and Alice Ribbons.
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Formula-Breaking Episode
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Formula-Breaking Episode: This film takes place after Christmas instead of before like the other five films.
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I Fell for Hours
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I Fell for Hours: Jernigan enters through a second-story window in search of Alex and falls through holes in the floors to the basement. While that should be three stories, he appears to go down seven floors.
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Barbell Beating
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Barbell Beating: One of Alex's traps is a large weighted barbell that falls from the house's roof onto the heads of two of the robbers.
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Farts on Fire
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Farts on Fire: Happens twice to Unger when he is being shocked with sparks shooting from his ass both times.
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Played for Laughs
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Played for Laughs with Beaupre eating a single cracker from a pack of two and slips the other in his pocket. When the parrot begins to light the firecrackers and give him away, he offers it as a bribe, but the parrot has been trained to respond to treats with "double or nothing." When Beaupre admits he only has one, "we have ignition!"
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Flower-Pot Drop
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Flower-Pot Drop: Alice trips two wires releasing poinsettia plants from a neighboring house. The first hits her on the head and the second lands on her face.
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Food as Bribe
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Food as Bribe: The brother's parrot only plays along with the scheme if you have TWO crackers.
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Rock Beats Laser
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Rock Beats Laser: The spies were able to pick locks and use a special tool to defeat a security system, but in the end were not a match for Alex's traps, which attacked in unique ways.
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Actually Pretty Funny
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Actually Pretty Funny: When Jernigan and Alice find what turns out to be a distraction involving a toy monkey, Jernigan starts laughing.
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Artistic License – Animal Care
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Artistic License – Animal Care: Doris the white rat doesn't have any cage-mates to live with. Fancy rats (and any brown rat for that matter) are extremely social animals that, barring temperament problems, should never be kept as solitary individuals.
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Chickenpox Episode
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Chickenpox Episode: The main character Alex gets chickenpox (which he discovers after scratching himself silly in public), and while staying home from school, he discovers North Korean spies outside his home, kickstarting the plot. The spies end up catching his chickenpox at the end of the movie.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: After Beaupre speaks with the terrorists' employer, the latter disappears and is never seen or mentioned again.
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No Time to Explain
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No Time to Explain: Alex ends up doing this a lot near the end, since he's spent days by this point giving full explanations to the authorities but are quickly dismissed.
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Big Bad: Beaupre is the leader of the quartet of spies that attempt to break into Alex's house.
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Continuity Nod: Mrs. Hess remembers having "chicken pox when Herbert Hoover was in the White House". In the previous film, it is mentioned that Herbert Hoover stayed at the Plaza Hotel where Kevin was.
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Parental Obliviousness: The parents aren't on vacation, they're just at work. Several of the booby traps were already there when they leave on the final day; in fact, at one point Alex has to fetch his mom's coat so that she doesn't find out about one trap in the closet.
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Eek, a Mouse!!: Alice is terrified of Doris the rat.
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Eye Scream: Alex sprays black paint over Beaupre's eyes through the front door's mail slot.
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Mood Whiplash: After the spies suffer through most of the traps, which is humorous, Alex's mom Karen calls him. The film gets a little tense because at this point Alex is trying to get her to not come home while Alice, Jernigan and Unger begin to search the house. Also Beaupre listens to the conversation between Alex and Karen using the basement phone so he can plan his next move.
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MacGuffin: The microchip that the North Koren terrorists are after.
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Adults Are Useless: Deliciously Zig-Zagged. While many of the adults are not helpful early on, there are legitimate understandable reasons why they aren’t exactly taking Alex seriously. One of these being that the crooks are competent enough to play adult expectations like a fiddle. However, an Air Force recruiter dutifully taking down Alex’s report on the chip despite not thinking it a serious matter leads to a beautiful cavalry moment at the end of the movie.
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Oh, Crap!: Pretty much any time the crooks have a moment to realize they just tripped one of the traps before getting clobbered by it. Unger has a good reaction upon realizing that he ran straight into the path of the minivan Jernigan's driving.
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Deadpan Snarker: Unger, even when he's half-frozen.
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Ms. Fanservice: Regardless of her mean spirit - Alice is a highly attractive woman. Admirers should be pleased with the sight of her rear end in form-fitting pants. It's most noticeable when she's running in yoga pants while pushing a phony baby stroller, and again when she bends over to pick up a hat and rips her pants. Her red underwear is seen underneath. A less appealing example occurs when she squeezes into a dumb waiter. Her butt hovers directly over the camera for a brief second.
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Spy Cam: One of the baddies has a secret glove spy cam with which he takes pictures of the cab the old lady is riding away in.
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Hypocritical Humor: Before cutting a live wire, Unger comments on how stupid kids can be.
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Child Hater: Unger. This is best seen when he fails to catch Alex hiding in a closet, and in his anger, he punches a picture of Stan, Molly and Alex, breaking the glass. He also has no problem with the idea of whacking every kid in the neighborhood and burning them.
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Stan's firecrackers. Possibly also a Shout-Out to the way they are used in the first film by Kevin.
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Hollow-Sounding Head: Alice. Any of the many times she hits her head or is hit in the head by something the audience hears a loud, suspiciously empty sounding *thunk*.
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Informed Ability: Remember, the Stupid Crooks of this movie are supposed to be veteran master spies and assassins taking on a kid, and the Curb-Stomp Battle is in favor of the kid.
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Outside-Context Problem: Alex to the crooks. They can run rings around law enforcement and adults with little issue. They are very much not prepared to deal with a creative 8-year old.
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Cassandra Truth: Alex gets blown off by the police officers when he tries to tell them about the spies after they escape for the second time. Subverted with the Airforce recruiting office. While it at first sounded like they were going to dismiss Alex story and the chip as just something from a toy they did eventually check with the FBI. Who quickly recognised the situation for what it was.
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Schmuck Bait: Alex's homemade electric fence is overlayed with red yarn and a very deliberately childish sign warning everyone that it's an electric fence and not to touch it. Unger falls for it hook, line and sinker.
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The Cavalry: Essentially defied, since Alex has things pretty well wrapped up by the time Agent Stucky arrives. However, the fact that he arrives with a convoy consisting of two snowplows, his own car, four police cars, Alex's family in their car, and a fire engine with all sirens blaring definitely invokes this image.
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Kiss of Death: Alice kisses Mrs. Hess on the forehead, after gagging her and taping her to a chair and then leaving the door open so the winter air will freeze her to death.
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Last-Name Basis: Beaupre, Unger and Jernigan are all referred to as "Mr. (surname)", or by their surnames alone. Only Jernigan gets a single mention of his given name (Burton). The former two's first names are revealed by Stuckey to be Peter and Earl, respectively.
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Jaw Drop: When Agent Stuckey relates to Alex's family what is going on, his brother's, sister's, and the police chief's jaws all drop.
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Expy: Alex is mostly recycled from Kevin. Also a Suspiciously Similar Substitute.
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Groin Attack: Everyone initially assumes Alex slammed the toilet seat on his crotch when he does his Skyward Scream on discovering he has chickenpox. Beaupre gets one from a boxing glove in the foyer's closet, causing him to fall on his gun. Then there's Alice giving one to Jernigan with a crowbar by mistake while trying to hit Doris the rat.
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Bound and Gagged: Alice binds and gags Mrs. Hess with white duct tape to a lawn chair in a garage.
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Oddball in the Series: This is the only Home Alone film that doesn't take place on Christmas; the events begin on January 8 - this was probably done to give the family a reason to be out of the house during the battle between Alex and the crooks. It's also the only one where the antagonists are international terrorists instead of just local thieves, and the only film not to feature any members of the McCalister family.
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Comedic Underwear Exposure: Happens to Alice when her pantsuit rips.
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Cut-and-Paste Suburb: A big problem for the villains. Since all the houses looked roughly the same the description they got from the taxi driver was useless, forcing them to systematically go through every house on the street.
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Never Trust a Title: It has nothing to do with the first two Home Alone films.
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Instant Soprano: After Doris the rat climbs up Jernigan's pant leg and Alice tries to club her.
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Answer Cut: Baupre orders Unger and Alice to access different areas of Alex's house. He notices that Jernigan is missing and asks where he is. There is then a cut to Jernigan getting sprayed by a booby-trapped hose.
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