Would you let your 7 year old watch Home Alone?

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM, never change. Uptight parents are the norm. Avoid Rudolph as well, it has discrimination against a reindeer with an obvious disability.

np you know there is a difference, right? Not everyone likes violence.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, we tried and she did not make it through the movie - she was tired and it was "too scary". We'll try again next year.

DH and I watched the rest after the kids went to sleep and man, there's some rough language and people are really mean. The story line with the old man neighbor is really sweet though.

Adults and older kids are really mean in that movie BUT I found it, not exactly typical of the time, but exaggerated for laughs but also rooted in reality, I guess? I could relate to it as a kid, but my kids now probably could not. It’s weird to think about but times really were different even 30-ish years ago when that movie came out. FWIW my 8 year old watched Home Alone on TV yesterday and was wondering why Kevin didn’t just call his mom’s cell phone LOL.

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My 5yo watched it last year. We watched home alone 2 this year at age 6. She watched home alone 3 and 4 on the plane alone.

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Anonymous wrote:I let me 7 year old watch is, but only when he's home by himself while I run a few errands.

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ok so we watched it with my 6 year old a couple of days ago-- first time I've seen it since I was a kid. And I could not believe my ears when I heard this line and especially that no one else here mentioned it. Buzz says:

He’s acted like a jerk once too many times. And this time? <b>He caught it in the butt.</b>

I collapsed into a fit of giggles because it was so unexpected and then had to tell my 6 yo he said "He's being a butt" lest I have to explain the real reason I was laughing.

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Of course

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I waited until I knew my kids had the maturity not to repeat the rude (but funny) catchphrases. Was especially worried about our comedian youngest. I think she was 9 when we allowed it. We definitely had to remind her that just because a movie line is funny, does not mean it’s appropriate to repeat ir.

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM, never change. Uptight parents are the norm. Avoid Rudolph as well, it has discrimination against a reindeer with an obvious disability.

np you know there is a difference, right? Not everyone likes violence.

Or profanity for a 7 year old!

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Probably. But, then I would probably do what I did with all the Disney films I thought would be great but turned out to be totally dated and sexist and other stuff - think what was I thinking. (Original Freaky Friday anyone?)

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Anonymous wrote:Probably. But, then I would probably do what I did with all the Disney films I thought would be great but turned out to be totally dated and sexist and other stuff - think what was I thinking. (Original Freaky Friday anyone?)

Virtually zero representation by BIPOC characters or actors in that abhorrent film.

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Anonymous wrote:Probably. But, then I would probably do what I did with all the Disney films I thought would be great but turned out to be totally dated and sexist and other stuff - think what was I thinking. (Original Freaky Friday anyone?)

Virtually zero representation by BIPOC characters or actors in that abhorrent film.

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Anonymous wrote:Every single violent thing Kevin does to the burglars could have been prevented by them just NOT trying to rob his house. He booby traps the house and doesn't back down when they try to break in anyway. He also I dependently discovers the benefits of cleaning up after himself and having good hygiene. His mom realizes she has been placing value on the wrong things and holds herself accountable for her mistakes (the dad doesn't, which sucks, but is also realistic so a lot of kids will sadly relate).

Also, Kevin discovers his fear of his elderly neighbor is irrational and limiting, and he overcomes this fear to forge a friendship that leads to the man reuniting with his own family.

It's a Christmas movie about family, connection, the importance of home, and how ingenuity and determination trumps greed and avarice. Also at one point a bad guy gets hit in the head with a paint can and the camera work in that scene is terrific.

I wish someone would make a contemporary Christmas movie as perfect and tightly written as Home Alone. I agree it's a very white movie and if it were made to say, Kevin's family would be multi-racial and then at least one of the burglars would be a POC, and there would be minimum of two conversations about privilege, and I truly do not think that would be an improvement. And if your going to have an all white cast, putting Catherine O'Hara in there makes it feel less egregious to me.

Well actually it would be more offensive and egregious if the bad guys were poc. Bad guys need to be white Eastern Europeans with the family being a blended bi-racial mix and Buzz would be LGBTQ.

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Anonymous wrote:No, because what all of you are not understanding is that the core of the message to a 7 year old is abandonment. The child in that movie is abandoned by his parents. Your child will think "Oh, wow, will my parents do that to me? Hollywood says so" and now you have a kid with an anxiety disorder

So for the last 20 years our society is full of kids with anxiety disorders from watching this movie? Really ?? I grew up watching Hansel and Gretel being baked in an oven by the stepmother/witch and I’m a perfectly normal functioning adult !!

+1 we talked about it with our kids… how Kevin being left like that and someone not helping him would not really happen. The rude way the whole family talks to one another.

How the bad guys getting hurt is funny in the movie, but would really hurt them in real life.

My kids love it (6 and 8, watched it last year, too), but understand it does not represent reality.

Good. Are we supposed to hope they don't get hurt? They're committing a home invasion.

It must be impossible to be so damn soft.

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We let out 6 and 8yo watch it; it scared the 6yo but the biggest takeaway they had was that our family doesn’t rush like the family in home alone. (Frankly, sometimes I wish we COULd move faster but I’ve accepted our family of slow pokes and we just take hours to do anything). No one has repeated any of the mean things- tbh I think a lot of it just went way over their head