Where to watch Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is available to stream in GB on Disney+. It can also be rented or bought from Amazon and AppleTV.
A young boy accidentally travels to New York without his family and settles into a luxurious hotel using a parent’s credit card. While exploring the city, he encounters two familiar burglars planning a holiday robbery and uses his cleverness, courage, and elaborate traps to stop them.
Cast: Joe Pesci, Macaulay Culkin, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Brenda Fricker, Tim Curry, Devin Ratray, Gerry Bamman, Rob Schneider, Michael C. Maronna, Terrie Snell
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Trivia & production notes
- Macaulay Culkin's salary jumped from $110,000 for the original Home Alone to $4.5 million plus 5 percent of the film's gross for the sequel.
- Donald Trump allowed the film crew to shoot in the Plaza Hotel lobby and one of its suites in exchange for a cameo appearance and standard production fees.
- Joe Pesci sustained burns to his head while filming a scene in which his character's hat is set on fire.
- Principal photography lasted 144 days, taking place from December 1991 through May 1992 across multiple locations including Chicago, Evanston, and New York City.
- John Williams composed new themes for the sequel including 'Christmas Star,' which featured lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
- The Talkboy cassette recorder, designed as a prop for the film by Tiger Electronics, became a best-selling toy after the movie was released on home video.
- Home Alone 2 became the eighth-best-selling video in the United States in 1993 after its VHS and LaserDisc release in July of that year.
- The film opened with $31.1 million from 2,222 theaters, setting a record for the largest November opening weekend at the time.
- Home Alone 2 reached $100 million domestically in 24 days, faster than the original film's 33-day trajectory to that milestone.
- A deluxe edition soundtrack released ten years after the film's debut corrected a mastering error that had caused the music to be inaccurately pitched on previous releases.
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