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December 23, 2025

‘Home Alone 2' nailed holiday travel chaos, but flight rules make movie's plot less plausible today

  • The movie magic may hold up 33 year later, but the logistics do not.
    • By RIO YAMAT
    AP Airlines and Travel Writer

    AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File [enlarge]
    Back in a fictional 1992, Kevin McCallister pulls off a luxurious stay at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, shown here in 1995. Experts say his solo New York adventure in 1992’s “Home Alone 2” wouldn’t happen today.

    Panic erupts in the McCallister household as soon as the day begins. The parents' alarm clock never rings, bags and coats spill across the floor, and the family barrels out the door to catch a flight to Florida.


     
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