--- title: Home Alone 25th Anniversary: If the Movie Took Place in 2015 description: Home Alone came out 25 years ago and is still completely beloved. But if it actually took place today, it would be an entirely different film canonical: https://time.com/4111768/home-alone-25th-anniversary/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-16T17:29:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:56.282Z og:title: What If Kevin McCallister Was Home Alone In 2015? og:description: On the 25th anniversary of 'Home Alone,' we imagine how the movie would be different today og:url: https://time.com/4111768/home-alone-25th-anniversary/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3005 og:image:height: 1690 og:image:alt: Home-Alone-Facts og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: What If Kevin McCallister Was Home Alone In 2015? twitter:description: On the 25th anniversary of 'Home Alone,' we imagine how the movie would be different today twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1cbde803982817d8/698870f40a4a22acfd9c7066/home-alone_79f5a892.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # What If Kevin McCallister Was Home Alone In 2015? > Sponsored content. 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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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4111768/home-alone-25th-anniversary/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4111768/home-alone-25th-anniversary/"},"headline":"What If Kevin McCallister Was Home Alone In 2015?","datePublished":"2015-11-16T17:29:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:56.282Z","description":"Home Alone came out 25 years ago and is still completely beloved. 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