Home Alone is a series of
family comedy films directed by
Chris Columbus (1 & 2),
Raja Gosnell (3),
Rod Daniel (4) and
Peter Hewitt (5). The first two films,
Home Alone (1990) and
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), follow the adventures of a boy named Kevin McCallister (
Macaulay Culkin) who, during the course of the film, gets burglars Harry (
Joe Pesci) and Marv (
Daniel Stern) arrested by using
booby traps. The third film,
Home Alone 3 (1997), has a similar plot but with a new protagonist, Alex Pruitt (
Alex D. Linz), and more of a
spy theme.