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Fair point to be honest
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Plus even by early 90s standards the dad was loaded. I mean look at their house in a rich suburb in Chicago, the fact that he paid for his and his extended families christmas vacations to Paris and whatever the other place was supposed to be. His family was rich too. He had a brother or something that lived in France and another that had a place in NYC under renovation.
In the first movie, I believe it was his brother that paid for them all to travel.
I don't remember how the second one started.
I had to look into this, because I couldn't believe the cheapskate who was stealing the cutlery from the airplane woukd have paid for the trip. It was paid for by another brother, the ones who lived in France. But he only shows up in a deleted scene.
The second one was to Miami I think, but it spent the entire trip raining so Kevin ended up having a better vacation.
see that was the part that broke suspension of disbelief. Rain? Miami? They could have at least chosen to visit their rich brother in St. John and had stormy tropical weather or billionaires or something.
IIRC one of the holidays was meant to be to Florida.
In the 90's that was middle class (upper middle class). Now it's rich. Oh how the median has fallen.
To pay for your own nuclear family to go international would be middle class. Being able to pay for extended families to go international at Christmas to a destination location is definitely a rich thing.
Fair
Nah that house was a mansion in the 90s too. It showed up in the news a while ago for $5.5 million because it’s a giant house in a nice part of Chicago. That guy was definitely in the 1%.
I honestly can’t believe so many people thought Home Alone was about a middle-class family.
No wonder young people are mad. They genuinely seem to believe everyone was wealthy in the 80s!
Well, I mean, I consider owning a studio apartment to be wealthy so..
No, in the 90s that was rich.