After an unseasonal viewing of Home Alone, I wondered how many days Kevin was left alone. IMDB FAQ's went above and beyond!

Despite being released in 1990, there's no real attempt to set it in the same year.

Christmas Day was a Tuesday in 1990. Within the reality of Home Alone, Christmas Day is a Friday. The events shown on film denote a five day week.The film opens on the evening of Monday the 21st of December and the McCallisters leave for Paris on the morning of the 22nd.

It would take around 9 hours (average flight time) to get there and the time difference would mean that they would land early morning, French time, on Wednesday the 23rd. A journey back by plane would take another 9 hours but the next plane from Paris to Chicago is not until Friday morning.

As previously discussed, Friday is Christmas Day and Kate refuses to wait for this. Kate begins her journey back home on the evening of the 23rd by getting a plane to Dallas and then onto Scranton where she arrives on Thursday the 24th. She is forced to travel by road with Gus and his band. The car journey from Scranton to Chicago would take approximately 12 hours so we can assume that she leaves in the evening with a few stops on the way. She arrives on Friday the 25th, shortly before the rest of the family. They caught the Friday morning plane from Paris and gained back the journey time in time difference.

Kevin is therefore left home alone for almost exactly three days (Tuesday morning to Friday morning). Each of his evenings alone end with a visit from Harry and Marv (the first where they are disturbed by the sudden light, the second where Kevin fools them with the silhouette party, the third when they actually enter the house"

Submitted August 26, 2016 at 07:44PM by cal_exeter http://ift.tt/2bSGOjh