• Friday, November 20, 1992

• Country:

  USA

• Language:

  English

• Runtime:

  120 min

1992

Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, who is once again separated from his family during one of their Christmas travels (following the first film). This time, the family is going to Miami, Florida for Christmas. Kevin makes it to O'Hare International Airport, but loses sight of his family while trying to get batteries for his Talkboy out of his father Peter's bag.

Seeing a man that is wearing the same coat as his father, he follows him toward a flight to LaGuardia Airport in New York City and doesn't realize where he is until the plane lands. While in New York, he decides to make the most of, as he puts it, "the greatest accident of my life". Along the way Kevin meets several people, including a lady (played by Brenda Fricker) who enjoys caring for pigeons, but creeps Kevin out at first.

In New York, Kevin decides he needs a place to stay. He decides to stay at the Plaza Hotel (after hearing about it on a TV game show the night before), placing Peter's credit card to check in. The concierge, Mr. Hector (played by Tim Curry), is suspicious of him the entire time he sees him there, going as far as sneaking into his room and prove Kevin a fraud. This attempt ends in failure as he is caught by Kevin using an inflatable clown to impersonate his Uncle Frank singing in the shower (which Kevin had recorded earlier on his Talkboy). The next morning Mr. Hector wants to apologize to Kevin's father for what he did the night before.

The next morning, Christmas Day, Mr. Duncan sends a whole truckload of presents to Kevin and his family at the Plaza Hotel as a reward for Kevin's role in the apprehension of Harry and Marv. His older brother Buzz suggests that had it not been for Kevin getting on the wrong plane, they would not be in the suite with the Christmas tree and gifts, and thinks it's only fair that Kevin get to open up the first present.

While everyone is opening their presents, Kevin notices that his turtledoves are on the room's Christmas tree and decides to head across the street to the park. He finds the pigeon lady feeding her pigeons and gives her one of the turtledoves, which serves as an affirmation of his promise from earlier. The pigeon lady is grateful for the gift and shares a hug with Kevin.

While all of this is going on Kevin's room service bill from his first stay at The Plaza, totaling $967.43, is delivered to the McCallisters' room. Buzz receives it and passes it along to Peter, who screams at Kevin from the hotel room regarding the charges. The film ends with Kevin running back to the hotel.

Goofs

• Continuity: When the camera is moving towards Marv like the bag of cement would, the falling rope is not visible in front of Marv like in the previous shot.
• Continuity: Makeup is visible before the first brick hits Marv.
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Kevin buys then breaks apart the beads, it is clear in the close-up that an older pair of hands are doing the breaking.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Kevin lights the rope on fire, he turns to run away and a crewmember is visible through the window.
• Continuity: The recording of Uncle Frank in the shower is much longer when Kevin plays it back in the Plaza Hotel. We hear things that were sung before and after Kevin started and stopped the recording.
• Continuity: If you turn the closed captions on, they will say "Oh, you're cooking, Frankie" when Frank sings it and "Oh, you're cooking with brandy" when Kevin plays it back while in the hotel.
• Crew or equipment visible: When Harry and Marv run out of the toy store's broken window, near the end of the movie, there are several shots of them where you can see into the store behind them. In one of these shots, you can see a person's left shoulder move behind a display on the left side of the screen (the person is wearing a heavy green jacket).
• Revealing mistakes: A black wire of some sort can be clearly seen connected to the staple that hits Marv's nose.
• Continuity: In the Plaza Hotel, Kevin asks Donald Trump where the lobby is. Trump says down to the left, but Mac goes down to the right, and arrives in the lobby.
• Continuity: When Harry and Marv first surprise Kevin outside the toy store, he drops his map of New York to the ground. However, in the long shot of this same scene, there is no map on the ground.

Taglines

• He's up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.
• Yikes! I did it again!
• First, he was home alone, now he's lost in New York

Trivias

• In Home Alone, Kevin watches a movie called "Angels with Filthy Souls." In this sequel, he watches that film's sequel, "Angels with Even Filthier Souls."
• Cameo: [Donald Trump] [makes an appearance in the Plaza lobby where Kevin asks him for directions.]
• Harry and Marv's conversation at the ice rink was shot at Central Park's Wollman Rink. The Essex House shown is on Central Park South in Manhattan.
• Director Cameo: [Chris Columbus] Holding a child and pointing to a stack of toys when the camera shows Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) walking through the toy store.
• Macaulay Culkin was paid 8 million dollars to star in this movie, the biggest paycheck ever to a 12 year-old child.
• This movie was actually shot at the Plaza in a Central Park Suite. The phone number given for the plaza in the movie (was) an actual working number.
• The Toy store - "Duncan's Toy Chest" - is named after the Executive Producer Duncan Henderson.
• Director, Chris Columbus's daughter, Eleanor Columbus appears in this movie as the little girl in the toy store.
• The McCallisters live at 671 Lincoln Blvd. Winnetka, ILL Phone: 555-1658.
• A real-life version of the Talkboy, the tape recorder Kevin plays with in the movie, was created by Tiger Electronics shortly after the film's release (along with its pink-and-purple counterpart, the Talkgirl).

Awards

1. BMI Film Music Award
   Event: BMI Film & TV Awards
   Result: Won
   Category:
   Recipient(s): John Williams
2. Golden Screen
   Event: Golden Screen, Germany
   Result: Won
   Category:
   Recipient(s):
3. People's Choice Award
   Event: People's Choice Awards, USA
   Result: Won
   Category: Favorite Comedy Motion Picture
   Recipient(s):
4. Young Artist Award
   Event: Young Artist Awards
   Result: Nominated
   Category: Best Youth Actress Leading Role in a Motion Picture Comedy
   Recipient(s): Senta Moses