--- ---  # What If Kevin McCallister Was Home Alone In 2015? ## Video: 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes [Watch (HLS stream): 100 Years of Blockbusters in 5 Minutes](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tfrXo5zL.m3u8) (5:21)  _Published 2014-02-12. Time has taken the highest grossing film each year for the past century and crammed them into 5 and a half minutes. No Intermission._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 16, 2015 5:29 PM UTC  Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone Macaulay Culkin in Home AloneTwentieth Century Fox by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Nov 16, 2015 5:29 PM UTC Happy anniversary, ya filthy animals. It’s been 25 years since _Home Alone_ hit theaters, becoming an instant holiday classic. It has clearly stood the test of time — come on, you know you still watch it and love it every year — but really, it would be an entirely different movie if it took place today. (Do keep in mind that the premise of the movie was already a _tad_ unbelievable in the 1990s, and it’s even more so today. Clearly Kevin’s mom would have [ways](http://www.skype.com/en/) to [contact](https://www.whatsapp.com/) him while he was stuck at home, for example.) From social media to man buns, here’s how the plot of _Home Alone_ would likely go if it took place in 2015. * Kevin’s mom, furious about her inability to get on a flight home, would start tweeting angrily at the airlines and start a viral hashtag. Something like #DeltaFailLines or #SouthWorstAirlines. * Kevin would rent out Buzz’s room on Airbnb. The film’s iconic final line — “Kevin, what did you do to my room?!” — would become “Kevin, why is there some dude sleeping in my room?!” * There would be a Kickstarter to help the old guy next door. * Instead of watching _Angels With Filthy Souls,_ Kevin would hack into his parents’ HBO Go account and watch _Game of Thrones._ He loves it, but they never let him watch it. * Realizing it could go viral, Kevin would recreate his [iconic bathroom scream](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W0PReCRg6Y) and turn it into a Vine. * Kevin would live tweet the whole ordeal with the hashtag #HomeAlone. * He’d then crowdsource ideas for what pranks to pull on the burglars. * Marv would have a man bun. Harry would make fun of it. * The parents would oversleep because they forgot to update their iPhone software and their alarms didn’t go off. * The family would not be in France. They’d be in Iceland because a JetBlue glitch accidentally listed tickets for $32. * Kevin would order his pizza on Seamless. Or he’d turn to the Reddit thread [Random Acts of Pizza](https://www.reddit.com/r/Random%5FActs%5FOf%5FPizza). * He’d throw a fit when he realizes he accidentally ordered from a gluten-free pizza place. * That [scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhF8PbrOhAs) when Kevin climbs up Buzz’s shelves and then they break and he shouts “whoa!” and everything falls? He’d totally break Buzz’s hoverboard. * And when he says [“Buzz, your girlfriend! Woof!”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRa75%5FHlr28)? That would happen while snooping through Buzz’s iPad and coming across a selfie. * The Wet Bandits would case the joint using social media, keeping an eye on everybody’s Facebook and Instagram feeds for clues about when they’d left for vacation. * Instead of creating [a fake party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlpzhaW0yFs) with mannequins and cardboard cutouts to convince the Wet Bandits that he wasn’t alone, the ever-savvy Kevin would hire real people on Craigslist. * Kevin’s whole story would go viral and he’d end up on _Ellen_ to talk about it. * After the _Ellen_ segment, there would be massive backlash about Kevin’s mom and her poor parenting. * There would then be backlash to that backlash. 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