Family comedy starring Macaulay Culkin as ten-year-old Kevin McCallister who is inadvertently left home alone by his large family when they go on vacation. On the evening before his family leave for their Christmas break to Paris, Kevin is banished to his room for misbehaving by his mother Kate (Catherine O´Hara). When he wakes the following morning, he discovers that he is alone in an empty house. Kevin must cope not only with life on his own but also with the threat of two persistent, albeit incompetent, burglars, Marv (Daniel Stern) and Harry (Joe Pesci). Meanwhile, Kate vainly tries to find a way to get back home to Kevin.