Home Sweet Home Alone

Ten-year-old Max Mercer is accidentally left behind when his family flies to Japan for the Christmas holidays. While he has the house to himself, a married couple sets their sights on a valuable family heirloom kept there, and Max takes it upon himself to keep them out by whatever means he can devise. The film is a comedy built around that standoff between a resourceful boy and two would-be intruders.

Dan Mazer directed, working from a screenplay by John Hughes, Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell. It was the third of four features Mazer directed, following I Give It a Year and Dirty Grandpa and preceding The Exchange. Archie Yates plays Max, with Ellie Kemper and Rob Delaney as Pam and Jeff McKenzie, Aisling Bea as Carol Mercer, Pete Holmes as Uncle Blake, and Devin Ratray as Buzz McCallister. Hutch Parker and Dan Wilson produced for 20th Century Studios and Hutch Parker Entertainment, on a budget of 15 million dollars.

The film was released on 11 November 2021. On IMDb it holds a rating of 3.6 out of 10 from around 23,000 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 4.8 out of 10 from roughly 719 votes. A critics' rating of 3.6 out of 10 from 72 reviews places it in line with the IMDb audience figure and below the TMDB one.