'Home Alone' Coming Back to Theaters for 25th Anniversary

You’ve seen it on television during the holiday season countless times over the last quarter-century, and now you’ll have a chance to see it again on the big screen.

Home Alone, the iconic holiday film starring Macaulay Culkin as sneaky 8-year-old Kevin McAllister, will be shown at select theaters on November 8 and 11 in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

More than 30 Chicago-area theaters will participate in the FathomEvents.com and Twentieth Century Fox presentation.

The film, the first of five Home Alone movies, features McAllister being left home alone by his family who is traveling to France. While home alone, McAllister fights off two clueless thieves (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern) who are trying to burglarize the family home.

The house depicted in the movie is in Winnetka. Other scenes in the John Hughes-written film were also filmed on the North Shore.

Among them was this scene where McAllister stole a toothbrush from a pharmacy. The chase is through Winnetka’s Hubbard Woods Park. A gazebo shown in the scene was demolished just a few weeks ago.