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The McCallister family are late for their holiday and rush to the airport. Big Sis counts the family wrongly and they leave behind eight-year-old Kevin who is still sleeping.

The night before, Kevin had an argument with his older brother and wished his family would just go away. He thinks it has come true when he wakes up and so starts jumping on his parents’ bed, going through his brother’s belongings, eating junk food, riding down the stairs on a sledge, shooting action figures down a laundry chute with a pellet gun, and watching an R-rated gangster film.

Some local burglars are turning their attention to the McAllister’s home but Kevin scares them away by turning on the lights. The next day, Kevin tricks them into thinking that the family is home, by arranging mannequins around the house, moving them with string and attaching a cardboard Michael Jordan picture to a train set.

On the third day, Marv the burglar decides to try and break in by himself, but Kevin plays a gangster movie at full volume and lighting firecrackersduring the gunshot scene, which scares Marv away.

Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother is desperately trying to get back to Chicago as soon as possible. Gus Polinski (John Candy) and his stranded group of polka musicians on their way to Milwaukee offer to help her get home in their van.

Kevin has overheard the burglars’ plans to raid his house again but first decides to try and wish his family back home by going to Santa Claus and church. After Kevin leaves the church he runs home to set up a series of traps around the house. This is the best part of the movie and the traps are as follows:

• Bricks thrown from the roof
• Goo on the fire escape ladder
• Tools over the door to fall upon opening
• An electrified sink
• A hole in the floor
• An unattached ladder
• A heavy bag on the end of a rope
• A large object swung into them at the stairs
• Water on the steps to turn into ice
• Christmas decorations under the window to step on
• Feathers and a fan to blot out vision and cover the intruders
• Red hot iron on the door handle to make it impossible to open
• Finely balanced iron in the laundry chute to land on the burglar’s head
• Toy cars under the carpet to trip up the attackers