Home+Alone+3+(Movie)

**SUMMARY:**
Four high tech industrial spies, who stole a top-secret microchip, hide it in a toy car to get it through customs. There is a baggage mix up at the airport and Mrs. Hess ends up grabbing the bag with the toy car in it instead of her bag of bread. She gives the toy car to her 8-year old neighbor, Alex, as payment for shoveling her driveway. The spies track the toy car to Alex’s street, but do not know what house it is at. Their solution is to burglarize every house on his street until they find locate it. Alex calls the police and tries to warn them and his family that he saw burglars, but when no one believes him, he must take matters into his own hands to catch the burglars. He doesn’t know what they are after at first, but he is determined to capture them.

**AUTHOR BIO:**
Raja Gosnell was born on December 9, 1958 in Los Angeles, California. He is an American film director and editor. He started off as an editor, but had an eye for becoming a director. He found out Home Alone 3 was looking for a director so he had his agent contact the producer. This set off his successful directing career.

**HISTORICAL CONTEXT:**
- First Home Alone movie not to feature actor Macaulay Culkin or director Chris Columbus. They wanted Culkin to return as a teenager, but he dropped out of acting, so they had to change the script!

**OTHER CHILDREN’S LITERATURE:**
- Directed: //Never Been Kissed// (1999), //Big Momma’s House// (2000), //Scooby Doo// (2002), //Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed// (2004), //Yours, Mine, and Ours// (2005), //Beverly Hills Chihuahua// (2008), //The Smurfs// (2011) - Edited//: Monster in the Closet// (1986), //Heartbreak Hotel// (1988)//, Pretty Women// (1990)//, Home Alone// (1990)//, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York// (1992)//, Mrs. Doubtfire// (1993)//, Miracle on 34th Street// (1994)

**AWARDS**:
- No awards have been won for this movie yet

**MAJOR THEMES**:
- Be resourceful, Be imaginative, Friendship, Forgiveness, Responsibility

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