Is Home Alone a Christmas Movie?

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Feasts of Film is giving you the best gift of all this Holiday season with new episodes just for Christmas! Cole, Joshua, Chandler and newcomer on the podcast Randy all get together to share laughs, jolly good fun, and duke it out in intellectual arguments to see which movies actually qualify as Christmas movies and which ones are just movies with a little Christmas sprinkled in. That's right it's time to look at some Controversial Christmas Movies!

On this fine feast of a time Colton will be going up against Randy to determine if we can deem Home Alone a Christmas film or if this film, like Kevin McCallister should be left Alone!

Kevin McCallister is a young eight year old whose family is coming in for the holidays. Before a big family vacation Kevin has a dispute with his family and is accidentally left on the day of their big trip. Kevin who wished his family would disappear is now ecstatic to have the home to himself, until he finds he's not actually alone. The Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv are coming to town and have chosen Kevin's home for their target. Now Kevin has to take care of himself and defend his home,  alone.

For our arguments each debater will have opening and closing arguments and will argue their side with three points. With only have three minutes for each point our debaters must make the most of each moment! Once the closing arguments have been made the judges for this week Joshua and Chandler, will give out the verdict on Home Alone. After the debate we will share our favorite moments from the movie and calculate our final score for the film.

We hope you enjoy this episode and look forward to more Controversial Christmas Movies over the next few weeks!

Music:

Intro & Background Music:

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Outro:

This is Not A Christmas Song by NEFFEX

Source: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCk-VjU-AJ-jwvEBmq6zAsNg/music

Artist: https://soundcloud.com/neffexmusic

Sound Clip:

Chris Columbus, (1990). Home Alone [Film]. Hughes Entertainment.