Here's how Kevin would've survived being Home Alone today

(Image credit: Screenshot/Twitter/Macaulay Culkin)

published 19 December 2018

Home Alone turns out a little differently in the present day, and it's not just because a certain businessman wouldn't have been in the Plaza Hotel to show Kevin McAllister around.

Macaulay Culkin, the now-adult star of the 1990 holiday classic, has reprised his role in a new ad released Wednesday. For one minute only, you can catch Kevin's iconic antics, reimagined and simplified with the help of a Google Home.

This time around, we learn Kevin's alone time is totally planned when he asks Google about his schedule for the day. Being older makes jumping on the bed a little more painful, and also means he actually cares enough to change the sheets afterward. And his operation to deter would-be burglars, though presumably set up by hand, is easily triggered with a voice command and secured with a smart lock on the door.

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.

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