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Peter McCallister: Hey did you by any chance pick up a voltage adapter thing?

Kate McCallister: No, I didn't have time to do that.

Peter McCallister: Well how am I supposed to shave in France?

Kate McCallister: Grow a goatee.

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When Marv is trying to break into the basement with the crowbar but slips on the ice, he hooks the crowbar on the sill of the door and then slips again. The crowbar then falls on his head. The mistake is that when he slips and the crowbar is hanging it is not hooked on the sill of the door, but is obviously hanging by a wire as it swings freely in front of the door. See more...

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When the McAllisters leave Chicago, they are flying on a DC-10. The plane that arrives in Paris at the end of the flight is a 757. [There could have been a change over. Nowhere does it say that it was a direct flight.]
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How would the robbers know exactly what time the lights were going on at MacAllister's house? It is the first evening they are away from home. And even though Harry visited the house the evening before, he was not told the exact second when the timers were set. [He may have looked around the house and found out the time of the lights on the timing device, as with the other houses on the neighbourhood he presumably visited.]
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Why don't the McAllisters simply contact their local Police station (or have someone from the US Embassy do it for them) and have them arrange for Kevin to be looked after until one of them can get back? [They did exactly that - contacted the police, who went to the McAllister home to check on Kevin. However, Kevin was scared and hiding under the bed and didn't answer the door, leading the officers to believe that no one was there at all. They left, saying, "Tell 'em to count their kids again!"]
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When Kevin prepares the house to defend it against the bandits, he pours water over the steps at the front door and on the stairs to the basement. The water freezes practically immediately. In a later shot, when Kevin is running from the bandits to his neighbours house, you see that the street is covered with puddles of (liquid) water. [The street may have been salted, which would cause ice or snow to melt into puddles. At the same time, an unsalted surface (as in the steps) would continue to accumulate ice.]
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When Kevin and Buzz are fighting over the pizza, you can see there are no black boots over by the door of the kitchen. But in the next shot, when he lights the firecrackers with the BBQ lighter, you can see the black boots. [Already submitted and corrected.]
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When Kevin and Buzz are fighting over the pizza you can see there's no boots over by the kitchen door, but in the next shot when he lights the firecrackers with a BBQ lighter you can see a pair of black boots standing by the door. [These aren't consecutive shots. The scene with Buzz and the pizza takes place before the family leaves for vacation; the firecrackers happen later, when Kevin is by himself.]
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When Kevin puts the food in the casher you can see a lot of people next to him, but in the next shot there's only one person behind him. [Perhaps they saw another line open. Perhaps they didn't want to wait because he was taking so long. If I was in line behind a small child by himself who had a coupon and was paying with change and was being questioned by the cashier, I'd probably find another line too.]
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The McAllister's flight arrives at Paris's Orly airport. Orly is used for domestic/continental flights only. DeGaulle is Paris's international airport. [Wrong. Check here for all destinations from Paris-Orly, including USA (under heading 'select destination country (direct flights)'): http://www.skyscanner.net/flights-from/ory/cheapest-flights-from-paris-orly.html?rtn=1]
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The flight that the McCallisters take from Chicago to Paris is one of the slowest Trans-Atlantic flights on record, especially considering it's on a Boeing 767. Their flight takes roughly 24 hours; a normal flight from O'Hare to Paris takes roughly 8 hours. [Firstly, the flight is on a DC-10 (though the movie shows a 757 arriving in Paris). Second, there is no clear reference to the time of day when the McAllisters arrive in Paris. However, assuming a mid-morning departure from Chicago (say 10:00am), an 8 hour flight and the 7 hour time difference, it would be close to 1:00am local when the flight landed.]
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In the scene towards the end where Kevin dials 911, we get a shot of the phone with a logo that reads "BellSouth Products" on it. In the Chicago area in 1990, the phone provider would not have been BellSouth, but Ameritech, which is based out of Chicago. [BellSouth did and does resell residential home telephone sets with their logo. These were definitely available in the Chicago area at that time as I owned one. They were available at most electronics retailers throughout Chicago and the suburbs. Ameritech did sell some phone handsets, but not many.]
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After Kevin has been out of the house and said, "I'm not afraid anymore", it was night, but when his mom calls from Paris and they send a policeman to their house, it is broad daylight and Kevin is still under the bed cover. [When the policeman comes to the house, it's still nighttime.]
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The burglars plan to rob Kevin's house at five o'clock. After he talks to the old man who lives next door, Kevin leaves the church and goes home to booby trap his house. The church bells ring eight o'clock. [They said nine o'clock not five o'clock.]
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The family checks in to a United Ticket Counter, yet they fly an American Airlines plane. [It's not uncommon (especially around the holidays) for airlines to share ticket counters.]
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Kevin goes food shopping, He gets milk and detergent, obviously heavy items. Afterwards we see him walking home and the bags he is carrying break open.  He is carrying them like they are light as a feather. Even when the milk falls, you can tell its an empty bottle. [Not true about the milk. Milk comes in a clear plastic bottle. The bottle that falls is opaque, full of milk.]
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To pay for his groceries, Kevin hands the cashier a folded-up bill, and the cashier takes it, still folded. When the scene immediately cuts to the cashier, she is holding an unfolded bill. [You can only see the top corner of the bill in that shot. You can't tell if it's folded or unfolded. In the next shot afterwards that you can see the bill, it is unfolded, but she would have had time to unfold it by then.]
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In the scene at the end when Kevin runs down the stairs to meet his mom, his hair totally changes in the next shot. [The wind, as he runs down the stairs, pushed his hair up, but when he is stationary at the bottom of the stairs it returns to normal.]
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In the scene where the robber steps on the ornaments as he comes through the window, as he stands up to walk, there are more ornaments than were in the previous scene. [No it's the same amount except that he has stepped on them breaking them into smaller pieces; hence it makes it look like there are more there.]
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As Kevin is flying off the front porch on the toboggan, you can see the small wheels mounted on the bottom of the sled to aid in its "jump". [There is something under the sled which is visible but these are not wheels, they are fins (like on a surfboard, but smaller) If you look above the fins you will see that the sled is flat so there cannot possibly be a wheel there.]
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When Harry and Marv are swinging on the clothes line they hit the brick wall and it moves. [I have watched this scene carefully, even pausing it, and I can't see the wall moving. They do however bounce off it due to the speed at which they hit it, which gives the illusion that its the wall moving, but it's actually their bodies that bounce.]
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In the scene where Kevin is sentenced to the third floor, you can see that the roof joists of this house are open and un-insulated, making this attic way too cold for use as a spare bedroom - something a resident of "Shermer, Illinois" and not southern California would know. [We never saw the full room, there could be a heater somewhere in there keeping it warm. In my house there is no working furnace so it also gets very cold here, so we have heaters.]
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