The Backstory: Home Alone: The Classic That Almost Didn’t Get Made
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Home Alone, on a budget of just $18 million dollars, was the highest grossing film of 1990 in the U.S. It has become a holiday classic. But it almost didn’t get made. This is all about the skill and luck of bringing Home Alone to life and the amazing contributions of its 10 year old star.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you with me on this? Watching some classic holiday movies with family and friends is one of the |
| 0:05.6 | best ways to fill the lull between Christmas and New Year's. All right, let's set the scene. It's |
| 0:11.1 | Christmas time in a snowy town. There's a big, beautiful house covered with twinkly lights. The |
| 0:16.9 | Christmas tree looks perfect, but inside, total chaos. Kids screaming, parents counting passports. |
| 0:23.4 | There are ten pizza boxes and, of course, spilled drinks. |
| 0:26.5 | Then cut to onboard the plane, taking the whole extended family to Paris for Christmas. |
| 0:32.1 | Suddenly, the mom does a headcount. |
| 0:34.1 | She panics. |
| 0:34.8 | At that moment, the most famous sentence in a holiday movie isn't |
| 0:39.2 | ho-ho-ho, it's Kevin! And just like that, home alone stole our hearts. I'm Patty Steele, |
| 0:46.2 | the chaotic and magical recipe for a Christmas classic. That's next on the backstory. |
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| 1:27.8 | We're in that comfortable lull right now between Christmas and New Year's, |
| 1:32.6 | and if your household is anything like mine, you've been watching some of the holiday classics on TV. |
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