A young boy is left home alone, thinking it’s just another quiet day. But what he doesn’t know is that a gang has been planning to break in. With no help coming, he has to defend the house on his own, using whatever tricks he can.

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Max is a ten-year-old young, creative boy who will come to save and unite two families. He is riding a house with his mother Carol after attending a holiday party. Carol is a housekeeper. Max tells his mom that he needs to pee. They’re just driving from a party and he happens to have overeaten. His mom comes up with a plan. They have to pretend they’re buying a house to pass by for Max to pee. Inside, they meet Jeff, who is a struggling data migration specialist who has just lost his job and is trying to sell the family house. His wife Palm is a local school student, and together he is trying his best to stay without telling the truth to his children.

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Shortly after, Max sees Jeff arranging some dolls in a box. The dolls seem old, and Jeff tells Max that they belong to his mother. Max attempts to touch them when he sees one of the dolls with a head that’s upside down. However, Jeff seems to be knowing something. He doesn’t let Jeff touch it. Instead, he puts it back inside the box and covers it.

Carol comes back and apologizes to Jeff for Max’s stubbornness. Before Carol leaves, Pam, Jeff’s wife, also comes to check out the new buyers who are planning to purchase the house. Pam is a teacher at a local elementary school, but her salary can barely sustain her family. She convinces Carol to buy the house but Carol says she is just passing by to see how it looks.

As Max continues arranging the dolls in the box, he opens it again and Carol also notices the doll with an upside-down head. She tells Max she has seen those dolls on a Treasure Trunk antiques show on the television. Carol tells Max about an elderly lady who once bought such dolls at a garage sale for $10 and then the price went as high as $5,000. Meanwhile, Carol tells Max it’s time to go back home.

However, Max doesn’t want to go home because they have so many cousins at their house. This is so boring to Max and he hesitantly moves. On realizing this, Carol frightens him by saying the entire family might go to spend the Christmas in Tokyo and leave him to stay at home with his grandmother. Infact, Max is so happy when he hears this because he’s just so fed up.

Max doesn’t see the reason for sharing the entire house with every relative they have even though it is Christmas time. His mom argues and tells him that’s what Christmas is all about. Spending time with the entire family, even if everything they do makes him anxious, furious and insane. Therefore, Max has no option but to bear up with the situation.

On the other hand, Gavin, a real estate agent, tells Jeff and Pam that there’s no one who is going to buy the house. The fact that it’s the holiday season means there are very few people purchasing houses. Gevin tells Pam and Jeff to wait until the festive season is over for them to get any customers. Unfortunately, Pam and her husband haven’t told their children about selling the house.

As kids arrive in the house, they’re surprised to see Gavin. As Jeff and Pam hear the footsteps of their kids, they quickly tell Gavin to pretend as if nothing is going on. Gavin has to pretend like he’s just a guest, but he asks them why he needs to pretend. Immediately, Jeff and Pam tell Gavin that they haven’t informed their kids about selling the house. Therefore, Gavin pretends to be Jeff’s personal trainer as he leaves the family alone.

As Max and Carol arrive at home, the house is full of chaos. Max’s young cousins are jumping up and down, yet he needs a quiet environment. Some of his cousins are watching superhero movies while shouting, as others make noise moving aimlessly around the house.

Carol gets a phone call from the airport. The airport cancels her family’s flight because the remaining seats can’t accommodate her entire family together with the relatives. The only way is taking the next flight. Carol gets mad at this because she wants to go to Tokyo as soon as possible. It’s only one day until Christmas. Carol suggests having her family put in two separate flights, but still, this is impossible.

Max tries approaching his mom to talk but she’s too busy on the phone. His mom says he’s not the only person in the house, and she has to attend to other important matters. At one moment, Mike is yelling at Max’s cousins for switching the home Bot to German language. Even before he’s done talking to reset it to English, two of Max’s cousins are upstairs with a loaded toy gun. They start shooting him as both play together. Everyone in the house except Max.

So, Max goes to the parking launch to get away from the noisy environment. He watches some cartoons but gets tired and falls asleep. Because of the calm nature of the car, Max spends his night sleeping in the car. His mom takes an early flight to Tokyo the same night because she doesn’t want to arrive in Japan when it’s already Christmas.

To make it worse, Jeff’s brother, Hunter, arrives in the middle of the night. Hunter has come with his entire family to spend the Christmas holiday at Jeff’s home. Jeff feels even more uncomfortable because Hunter should have come the following day in the morning. Anyway, he wakes up to welcome his brother at midnight. Jeff’s eyes are still sleepy, but Hunter throws a ball of snow straight to his face.

Mei, Hunter’s wife tiptoes in the snow with her high heels as she gets in the house. Both are carrying big Christmas gifts for Jeff, but he doesn’t why they have to spend so much money on gifts. Hunter feels good because this year’s Christmas is going to be interesting. Besides, he has not celebrated Christmas at Jeff’s place for quite some time.

Pam and Jeff help Hunter to offload the car and take the luggage inside the house. This means Jeff and Pam have to spend more money because of his brother’s family. But in a real sense, he’s barely struggling to survive. As everybody goes to bed, Jeff stays awake browsing on LinkedIn to look for a job. Still, there’s no response. He also tries to visit eBay to see what he can sell to get some money. Then, he spots something. The upside-down doll is going for $200,000. Even Jeff doesn’t believe it, because there are only 10 such dolls on the entire planet.

Immediately, Jeff realizes he has found a solution to his financial crisis. He rushes to his mother’s toys box where he always keeps them, but finds the toy missing. Since Max saw it as he was passing with Carol when pretending to buy the house, Jeff knows its Max who has stolen it. Jeff remembers Max and Carol calling each other’s names, so he heads straight to Carol’s house the following morning.

Upon arrival, he’s disappointed because Carol is already on her journey to Tokyo. Uncle Stu, Max’s uncle who suffers from sleep apnea, is in a hurry to leave the house. Jeff tells Stu he needs to speak to Carol, but Stu mistakes Jeff for a driver who has just come to help pack the luggage. No one wants to talk to Jeff because they’re already late and there are lots of flight delays at the airport.

Just before the entire family leaves, Jeff overhears Carol’s house security code and also sees where they hide the key before driving away. He tries stopping the car but it’s too late. It’s already in the morning and it’s when Max is waking up from the car. Max has spent the night in a different car from the one which the whole family has used to travel when taking the trip to the airport. He goes to the house, calls mum, dad and uncle Stu, but everyone is gone.

Max is happy because this is probably going to be the best Christmas ever. He’s just home alone by himself. He tries out everything that his mom and dad always restrict him from doing. Max heads over to his mom’s wardrobe, tries out her attire, takes a lot of sugary candy to eat and lots of ice creams as well. Perhaps he’s just living his best life. He also slides down the stairs, jumps down the balcony with a large inflated balloon and ends up messing the house. Carol and Pete have restricted Max’s access to the internet. The best he can do is head over to the gym and manage some light running exercises.

Jeff and Pam take out their kids, along with Hunter’s family. Jeff and his wife can’t buy gifts for their family because they don’t have enough money for fancy gifts. All they need is to get some more funds and save their house. Jeff tells Pam selling the doll will give them more than what they need, but Jeff is afraid of committing a crime. He has to go and steal the doll from Max and bring it back for sale. If caught, he will end up in prison for committing a felony.

Later that evening, Jeff and Pam break into Carol’s house to steal the doll. Jeff takes up the key since he remembers where it’s always hidden. As they move closer to the entrance, the lights automatically light up since they’re motion activated. Immediately, Jeff stands still because he thinks movement lights up the bulbs. Nevertheless, they continue moving because they have to get in the house anyway.

As he puts the key in the keyhole, the house’s burglar alarm sends a siren to the local police station. The alarm becomes louder and louder until he keys in the security codes. This time, he enters the wrong password and the alarm activates itself again. He peeps through the glass window and sees a jacket hanging on the chair inside the house. Jeff believes the doll is inside the jacket and attempts to get it. Their operation becomes unsuccessful as Buzz McAllister, the local police man from the security department arrives in response to the alarm.

Jeff is scared and runs outside the house, falling on the snow. Pam calmly walks out of the house. When questioned by the police officer, she claims to be cleaning sinks in the neighborhood. Pam convinces the police officer until they both laugh together. Max keeps knocking on the window, telling the officer to detain Pam and Jeff but his voice is inaudible. The officer lets them go and returns to his station.

When Max thinks of this, he imagines his mom in prison for leaving him home alone. He decides not to alert the police again because this may not be a good idea. He also thinks Jeff and Pam are planning to kidnap him and sell him to old women who will then pay $200,000. Max doesn’t know Jeff and his wife are after the doll.

Carol gets so mad at her husband for leaving Max behind. Uncle Stu admits he didn’t see Max when leaving the house. Everyone assumes Max has been on the plane, only to realize Max is missing and is home alone. They have to call someone to help them take care of Max, especially the neighbors. Since they just moved into the new house 2 months ago, they don’t know anyone around their homestead. Everybody they know is back in London, where they have been staying before migrating.

Officer McAllister receives a call from the station during his patrol hours. He needs to go and check out the house because there’s a kid who seems to be alone in the house. His parents have gone for a vacation and left him behind. The officer replies to the call claiming it’s a prank call. He recalls his brother who always makes prank calls on him every Christmas, and assumes Max’s parents are also pranking him. He needs to go out and pass by, just to check out if there’s someone in the house but he doesn’t go.

Carol wants to go back and see her ten-year-old at home, staying all alone. She takes her passport and decides to take the flight back home. Jeff and Pam are in the church during the Christmas ceremony listening to Christmas carols. Gavin comes around and tells them he has an offer from the Beckins, the new couple that has just arrived in the city looking for a house. Jeff instructs his son Chris to take the toy gun and donate it to those children in need outside the church.

As Chris takes the toy gun, Max happens to be there. He has just felt like going to church and getting some presents. The old lady in charge of collecting toy contributions stops Max from picking the toys because they’re for kids less fortunate than him. However, Max explains he’s also less fortunate because he has just lost his parents. All he wishes is for mom and dad to come back. The old lady hands the toy to Max, and he goes back home on his bicycle.

During their conversation in church, Jeff and Pam spot Max talking to the old lady, thinking it’s Max’s grandmother. They have to get the doll, so they leave the church service, get inside the car and drive to Max’s home before he goes back. They manage to get to Max’s home ahead of him, but find it hard to access the door because of the alarm clock. Therefore, Pam and Max move through the backyard at night. As they enter the house, they realize they have just bumped into the wrong house. Carefully, they close the door and go to the neighborhood.

On their way, they accidentally step into the swimming pool covered by snow. Pam starts screaming as she drowns, but she manages to find a way out because it is a shallow swimming pool. Max also slides into the swimming pool, although Pam helps him out. Things are becoming difficult, and Max senses that nature is trying to warn them. Perhaps Max doesn’t have the toy. Nevertheless, Max doesn’t give up. He tells Pam they have to get the doll at all costs.

They slip on the staircase covered with snow and hurt their backs, with Max almost breaking his coccyx. Pam suggests they climb the wall and break into Max’s house, but the wall is too high to jump. This wastes their time, allowing Max to arrive at home. Max hears people shouting outside and once he peeps through the window, he sees Pam and Jeff. Using the toy gun he has just acquired from the donations at the church, he develops a war plan.

Max breaks down the toy house in small, sharp pieces and spreads them on the floor at the entrance. He also makes barbecues around the house, splashes the oil on the car’s driveway to their house, and makes sharp ice cubes. As part of his big strategy, he takes a lot of soda that his parents always warn him not to drink. Since there is lots of soda in plenty, he takes mint, puts it inside soda and makes some explosives to scare Pam and Jeff.

Meanwhile, Pam and Jeff struggle to climb over the wall. Jeff gets into the compound through the wall, but Pam doesn’t manage it. Instead, she uses a side gate. Before entering the house, Max is already waiting to attack. Jeff dares to enter the house and finds a note at the doorstep, addressing him as Santa Claus. There’s also some pudding and a glass of milk. Mistakenly, he eats the pudding but they have some chili in them.

To manage the bitter taste, he drinks the milk, but the milk is too hot. It burns his tongue until he jumps into the snow outside the house and eats it. Pam is also trying in her end. As she approaches the doorstep, Max throws down a large bottle of soda with mint inside, ready to explode. As Pam hits the bottle, its bottle top opens and soda splashes on her face. Max throws more and more bottles of soda until he overwhelms Pam. To protect herself, Pam takes a lid and uses it as a shield but Max continues attacking.

She tells Max to come down and talk. They don’t want to hurt him. All they want is the doll. But Jeff Max tells Pam that she can’t get him because he thinks they want to sell him. Max goes back to the house and uses his home-made rocket missile using the toy car. He lights it up and as it falls where Pam is standing, her feet get on fire. She rushes to the water tap, only to find that Max has also changed the direction of the water flow. Instead of water flowing downwards to cool her burning feet, it’s splashing upwards.

Pam lies down, lifting her legs up to cool the feet and puts off the fire. Jeff returns to the house to open the door and the alarm beeps again. As he enters the pin to stop the alarm, he doesn’t realize that Max has put a sharp pin on one of the digits. He screams as he pricks his finger, but Max shows up on the upper room with a toy gun, loaded with tennis balls. He shoots Jeff on the forehead, leaving him falling down on the ground, almost unconscious.

Using the living room barbecue, Max comes down from the first floor of the house on a rope and puts virtual reality glasses on Mike as he is still on the floor, unconscious. A few minutes later, Jeff wakes up and all he can see is him in a desert. He doesn’t realize he has virtual reality glasses on his face. According to Jeff, he is standing on the edge of a long cliff. He needs to jump to the other side to save his life. Unknowingly, Jeff gets up and as he jumps, he hits the wall, and this is when he realizes he’s in a house.

Pam’s shoes have been destroyed by the fire, so she puts them off and gets inside the house. There’s something blocking the door from opening. She pushes with her strength, only to realize it’s Jeff lying on the floor. The constant push on the door wakes up Jeff as Pam enters the house. Still, they don’t understand why Max is punishing them when all they need is the doll.

Max climbs upstairs on the sides. Jeff and Pam try stopping him for a dialogue but using the barbecue set in the living room, he hits Jeff with a pack of wheat flour in the face. As Pam runs to catch Max, she slides on the stairs because Max has applied a lot of butter on the staircase. Before Jeff speaks a word, Max releases another huge packet of sugar from the barbecue and hits Jeff in the face.

Pam enters another room barefooted but before she knows it, a large spoon hits her toes, making her scream in pain. Max has put the small, sharp pieces of his broken toy house on the floor, intentionally to pierce Pam. She feels a lot of pain, but she has to keep moving. They have to get the doll from Max for the sake of their family.

Using the catapult on the stairs, he releases a packet of sugar and hits Jeff in the abdomen, bringing him back to the ground floor. Max runs to the next room upstairs and activates a pendulum hanging in the air. As Pam follows him, she’s distracted by the pendulum which she pulls. This activates the two automatic toy guns that shoot her in the face. Indeed, she continues pursuing Max to the next room.

Max throws a round metal ring at her, hitting her toes again. Thinking Max has come to the edge of the wall, she decides to face him. Max throws the next metallic ring but this time, Pam evades it. Instead, he takes a huge yoga ball and throws it towards Pam. Again, Pam catches it. To evade her, Max throws a sharp object that partially deflates the yoga ball. It keeps moving through the air, pushing Pam down the stairs from where she has come from. As she falls down, she instructs Jeff to get Max.

Jeff regains strength and climbs the stairs. As Jeff climbs, Pam sees the jacket which she believes has the doll. She rushes to take the jacket, checks inside the pickets but doesn’t find the doll. Jeff approaches Max but the boy jumps down the balcony, landing on the springing surface. Jeff follows him but fails to take the ladder. As he jumps, Max tilts the spring surface, letting Jeff fall on the side and hitting himself on a tree.

Max runs back to the house and Jeff follows him. He grabs the string holding the sharp ice cubes hanging from the roof, attacking Jeff with them. Although Jeff tries covering himself, he falls down, almost getting hit by the largest ice cube. Max enters the house, only to find Pam waiting for him with an armed toy gun, also fully loaded with pool balls. She tells Max to surrender, but Max threatens her. He might just shoot Jeff with his loaded gun as well.

All in all, Max decides to surrender. But he gets another fighting chance when Pam jumps from the first floor to where he is using the rope attached to the roof. Pam doesn’t even check whether the rope is tied to a heavy object before using it, so she ends up falling on the ground. Right now, Max has authority over Jeff and Pam. He tells them to surrender, but Pam tells him that they want the doll he stole when he visited their house.

Max doesn’t understand what these people are talking about. He clearly tells them that he’s already ten years old and doesn’t need a doll. This sounds so bad, especially when Pam and Jeff get to know that all their effort is in vain. They have just been fighting for someone who doesn’t have their doll.

Pam tells Max to wake up his German grandmother, although there’s no one else in the house. She wants to know who else is at home, but Max is there, all by himself. He tells them that his parents left for Tokyo, and there’s no one to look after him. They further clarify that they never intended to kidnap him. Perhaps they have just made the biggest mistakes in their lives. Ruining everything, hitting their neighbor’s post, interfering with the alarm detection system, and all that.

Pam feels so compassionate about Max’s situation and tells him to put the toy gun down. She hugs him and promises Max to call his parents, just to let them know that he’s safe. They even offer to stay with Max until his mom and dad return. As she hugs him, the last booby trap cue falls from the roof, almost hitting Jeff.

Right now, Max is in trouble because he will need some explanation to give his mom. Pam and Jeff have also lost it. Nobody knows where the doll is, and there’s no option except leaving the house. The bills are accumulating and there’s already an offer on it. Someone wants to purchase their home. Although their kids aren’t okay with their parent’s decision, they have to leave the house. The data migration boom is over and Jeff can hardly get a job.

Even though Hunter is comfortably staying in Jeff’s house for the Christmas holiday, he’s unaware of the struggles the family is going through. Jeff and Pam take Max and start staying with him until his parents return. As Max arrives in Jeff’s house, he meets Hunter and the family. As everyone is disappointed because of the inevitable relocation, Max tells everybody that having parents around is what matters most.

Staying in a good and luxurious house doesn’t always mean having a peaceful environment, but having the family around does. Pam backs him up because she understands what Max means, from a parental perspective.

In this moment of sadness, Ollie, Hunter’s last-born son, breaks the silence. He comes from his room upstairs holding the doll worth $200,000. No one believes Ollie is the one who has stolen the doll. Jeff and Pam have been trying their best to get it, yet the doll has been in their house all this time! Ollie tells Jeff he has the doll, but Jeff doesn’t care what the kid has to say. All he knows is that his livelihood now depends on the doll.

Without wasting time, he pushes Hunter aside, rushing to save the doll so as not to hit the floor once Ollie throws it. He jumps, tries his best but doesn’t catch it on time. Instead, he falls on the nearby cupboard and hits the floor. Pam, seeing that Jeff has just missed it, also takes action. She steps in Mei’s face, moving and flying through the air to catch the doll before it lands on the ground. She also misses it and hits her head on the wall.

Max slides himself on the floor, catching it just in time before it hits the ground. Everyone appreciates Max for his good work to save the most expensive doll. A glimmer of hope shines in the house, and everyone is happy. It doesn’t matter if some people are hurt. What matters most is that the doll is now available, and they are not going to sell the house.

Carol immediately arrives from Tokyo and stops at Jeff’s place to pick her son, Max. She’s so happy to see her son. Again, Jeff is so happy because they aren’t poor again. Although Pam requests Carol to join her in celebrating Christmas, Carol insists on celebrating it at her house. She hugs Max as they go back to the house. Max is worried because he really needs to give his mom a reasonable explanation of what has happened in the house.

The staircase handles are broken, the lights are damaged, the door alarm not functioning and everything is in a mess. Jeff and Pam sell the doll, get the money and use it to handle the repairs in Carol’s house. The money is just enough. They even use the surplus to pay for their trip to Europe and of course, getting the new chandelier.

One year later, Carol and her family join Jeff and Pam during the Christmas celebration. Both families have fun, and become good friends. Jeff gets a new job with a promotion of being the new district manager. He manages and provides data for the cloud 24/7 services. Max has managed to bring the two families together, making them new friends.

Max’s chaotic Christmas proves that what matters the most is not the physical things we fight for, but those who surround us. Despite all the uproar, from stolen dolls to booby nets, the work of Max brings the family together in an unexpected manner. Even Jeff and Palm, who were desperate to save their home, felt the importance of sticking together through family value and difficult times. Max may have saved Christmas in its own way, but the real lesson here is that no matter how messy the family is, it is one that makes the holidays really special.

Home Sweet Home Alone 2021 .