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?
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.
Heh, it seems the New York Times is thinking about the same thing, and I'm also not the first one to suspect shady connections . . .
"One fan theory posits that Peter McCallister is involved with organized crime. Under this theory, the McCallister home was specifically targeted as some sort of vendetta, and Kevin’s brutal violence against the burglars is the product of an upbringing exposed to criminal activity."
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.
Could be a sequel à la *Back to the Future II,* which looks at the events of the movie from another angle. Would watch!
Heh, it seems the New York Times is thinking about the same thing, and I'm also not the first one to suspect shady connections . . .
"One fan theory posits that Peter McCallister is involved with organized crime. Under this theory, the McCallister home was specifically targeted as some sort of vendetta, and Kevin’s brutal violence against the burglars is the product of an upbringing exposed to criminal activity."
Just How Rich Were the McCallisters in ‘Home Alone’? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/movies/home-alone-mccallisters-wealth.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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.
Ahh boo I totally missed the wrong answers only part of the missive.
Invented the Speedo.