This is an on-again, off-again pop-culture conundrum that has been plaguing the Internet for years:
How could the McAllisters afford that house and that Paris trip in Home Alone?
You’ve seen the 1990 comedy Home Alone, in which a grade-school Macaulay Culkin slapstick-comically defends his palatial suburban-Chicago home from burglars after he is accidentally left behind when his extended family flies off to Paris for a festive vacay. It’s all a bit preposterous, but the real insanity is this: what the heck does little Kevin’s dad (played by John Heard) do for a living that he can afford that huge house and that Christmas (ie, high-season) trip, including first-class airfare for the adults, for his extended family?
I mean, obviously, Kevin’s dad is either in finance or in the mafia, but those are boring answers to the question. What are the bonkers possibilities? Where did that kind of money come from?
Dec 18, 2023·edited Dec 18, 2023Liked by MaryAnn Johanson
He's a fence for international art thieves. The Paris vacation is a cover so he can go on to Switzerland to make secret transactions. The guys who try to break into his house while he's gone are thieves that he double-crossed who are out for revenge.
Papa McCallister has that house and those vacations in Chicago, Illinois, and Uncle McCallister has a five story brownstone being renovated blocks from Central Park in the second movie.
They work finance. Kevin's dad trades the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, his uncle Wall Street.
He's a fence for international art thieves. The Paris vacation is a cover so he can go on to Switzerland to make secret transactions. The guys who try to break into his house while he's gone are thieves that he double-crossed who are out for revenge.
Papa McCallister has that house and those vacations in Chicago, Illinois, and Uncle McCallister has a five story brownstone being renovated blocks from Central Park in the second movie.
They work finance. Kevin's dad trades the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, his uncle Wall Street.