Macaulay Culkin is HOME ALONE Midnights at the Tivoli This Weekend

“Keep the change you filthy animal”

HOME ALONE plays on the big screen at the Tivoli midnights this weekend as part of their ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ series. The 1990 comedy smash was John Hughes’s last significant contribution to pop culture. Hughes’s script was his usual dose of upper/middle-class discomfort combined with a Rube Goldberg meets Ferris Bueller selection of traps and low-brow cunning that held together better than a movie set at Christmas had any right to. And its young hero — the courageous home commando Kevin McAllister, played with gusto by the subsequently doomed Macaulay Culkin, is hilarious in his mission to protect his home from the “wet bandits” after being forgotten by his vacationing family.

What is best about HOME ALONE is its sense of fun. The plot really makes little sense. How does a family not notice they have an extra plane ticket or that a sibling is missing? Why would burglars break into a house where they can be identified? How can Joe Pesci get beat up relentlessly and not scream “Motherfucker!” once?

HOME ALONE is a great Christmas film, but since The Tivoli doesn’t run their Midnight series in the winter, this weekend, September 6th, and 7th, will have to do.

The Tivoli’s located at 6350 Delmar Blvd., University City, MO.

Admission is a mere $8!

The Tivoli’s website can be found HERE

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/st.louis/tivolitheatre.htm

And here’s the ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ midnight line-up for the next few weeks:

Sept. 13-14   FIGHT CLUB
Sept. 20-21  BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
Sept. 27-28  SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD With live shadow cast!
Oct. 4-5        PSYCHO
Oct. 11-12     DONNIE DARKO (original version)