"Home Alone" director Chris Columbus told Insider that the BB-gun shot into Marv's face when he's in the doggie door was an animated effect. "We paid a guy living in his mother's basement in ...

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Stern also held out for a bigger payday on “Home Alone ... off the roof of a dilapidated New York City brownstone in the middle of the night. In another iconic scene in said brownstone, Stern ...

getting his shoes and socks peeled off by tar, and stepping onto a 3-inch nail, Marv abandons the basement entrance and enters the home through a conveniently opened window. Without looking down ...

Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the villains from the first two movies, partners up with a new criminal named Vera to hit Natalie's mansion.

But Kevin won't be alone for long. The notorious Wet Bandits, Harry and Marv, still smarting from their last encounter with Kevin, are bound for New York too, plotting a huge holiday heist.