Wie die Eltern, die „allein zu Hause“ waren, sich dieses verrückte Haus leisten konnten, enthüllt vom Regisseur

> “Back then, John and I had a conversation about it, and we decided on what the jobs were,” Columbus said. **Catherine O’Hara’s Kate McCallister “was a very successful fashion designer,” as suggested by the mannequins in the family’s basement. As for John Heard’s Peter McCallister, he can’t say for sure. “The father could have, based on John Hughes own experience, worked in advertising, but I don’t remember what the father did.”** He was able to rule out one profession, though, which people online speculated might have drawn criminals Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) to the McCallister home in the first place: “Not organized crime — even though there was, at the time, a lot of organized crime in Chicago.”

After all, ‘tis was Mom who brought home the bacon.

> “Farley was just starting out at the time,” Columbus said, and the director invited him to a Saturday morning audition. “This guy came in at 7 a.m. for our first reading for the guy who played Santa Claus in the movie. He was not in any particularly great shape. He had just come out from all night being in Chicago.” The director continued, “We had to say, ‘Well, not this time.’ And then over the years I got to know Farley really well, and we always talked about that.” The first time we met was at that audition,” Columbus said.

I didn’t know Chris Farley auditioned to play Santa in Home Alone.

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Watched it with the wife last night and she was commenting about all the mannequins and clothing in the basement scene saying she probably works in the fashion/clothing industry. Cool to have that confirmed.

I always assumed Peter McCallister had some kind of high end finance job. He has that smug and useless look that bank executives and stockbrokers had at the time.

It’s a John Hughes movie. Aren’t all his movies about wealthy white families who live in a quaint looking 2 story houses?