Home Alone 3 is a 1997 American family comedy hit movie since Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York from 20th Century Fox. It is written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Raja Gosnell. It is the third installment in the Home Alone series and the first to not feature Macaulay Culkin. It was released on December 12, 1997.
Plot[]
Peter Beaupre, Alice Ribbons, Burton Jernigan, and Earl Unger are four internationally-wanted criminals who work for a terrorist organization. In Silicon Valley, California, they steal a $10 million missile-cloaking microchip and hide it inside a remote control toy car to sneak it past security at San Francisco International Airport. However, a luggage mix-up causes a Chicago-bound elderly passenger named Mrs. Hess to inadvertently take the thieves' bag containing the car. The four thieves arrive in Chicago and systematically search every house in Mrs. Hess's suburban neighborhood to find the chip.
Eight-year-old Alex Pruitt is given the remote control car by Mrs. Hess as payment for shoveling her driveway. He returns home and discovers that he has chickenpox and must stay home from school. The next day, Alex discovers the thieves while spying on his neighbors. After two failed attempts to have them apprehended, Alex attaches a camera to the remote control car and uses it to spy on them, leading to the thieves chasing it when they spot it. Wondering what they want with the toy car, Alex opens it and discovers the stolen chip. He informs the local U.S. Air Force Recruitment Center about the discovery and asks if they can forward the information about the chip to the right authorities.
The thieves finally deduce that Alex has been watching them and decide to break into the Pruitts’. Alex rigs the house with booby traps with help from his pet rat Doris and his brother Stan’s loud-mouthed parrot. The thieves break in, spring the traps, and suffer various injuries. While the four pursue Alex around the house, he flees and rescues Mrs. Hess, who has been duct taped to a chair in her garage by Ribbons. Beaupre ambushes Alex, but the latter uses a bubble gun resembling a Glock to scare him off.
Meanwhile, FBI agents and Chicago PD officers arrive at Alex's siblings' school after a tipoff from the recruitment center. Alex's family brings the agents and the police to their house, where they arrest Alice, Jernigan, and Unger. However, Beaupre hides in a snow fort in the backyard. Stan’s parrot discovers him and threatens to light fireworks, which are lined around the inside. Beaupre offers a cracker in exchange for silence, but the parrot demands two (“double or nothing”). Since Beaupre has only one, the parrot lights the fireworks and flees. Beaupre is discovered and arrested.
Later, the Pruitts, Hess, and the authorities hold a celebration for Alex as the Pruitt house is being repaired, with Alex’s father Jack returning home from a business trip. At the end, the thieves are shown to have contracted Alex's chickenpox during their mugshots.
Cast[]
- Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt
- Olek Krupa as Peter Beaupre, leader of the crooks.
- Rya Kihlstedt as Alice Ribbons, sole female of the four crooks.
- Lenny Von Dohlen as Burton Jernigan, one of the four crooks.
- David Thornton as Earl Unger, one of the four crooks.
- Haviland Morris as Karen Pruitt
- Kevin Kilner as Jack Pruitt
- Marian Seldes as Mrs. Hess
- Seth Smith as Stanley Pruitt
- Scarlett Johansson as Molly Pruitt
- Christopher Curry as FBI Agent Stuckey
- Baxter Harris as a Police Chief
- Neil Flynn as a Police Officer
- Darren T. Knauss as the Parrot (voice)
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