Home Alone (1990)
"It's too late for a Christmas movie!" "You dropped the ball on this one." Did I use enough sarcasm in your fake voices? See, this is an instance where an inside joke to myself trumps timeliness or even sensibility really. I wanted to do this movie for the sole and total purpose of me laughing at my own stupid joke - and I'm all the happier for it. This isn't exactly a spring chicken of a movie, it's been around for some time now and no doubt most have seen it. Well, maybe not the newer folks - most the television airtime around winter is devoted to non-stop re-runs of Christmas Story and it's sequel (heaven knows I just discovered that was a thing this year), so the lesser know like this doesn't feel as though it gets nearly as much airtime (and most the rest of us are too busy watching Die Hard to care). Should this be added back into your viewing rotation? Lets check for temperature before we go for the knob.
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