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A nine-month-old crawls across Chicago following the pictures in his storybook while the three kidnappers chasing him absorb every injury a John Hughes script can invent. John Hughes wrote it, America ignored it, and it ran for months in Kolkata.
The 1992 comedy about a St. Bernard puppy who sneaks into a suburban family's house, grows into a huge, slobbering dog, and slowly wins over the dad who never wanted him. John Hughes wrote it under a pseudonym, critics shrugged, and audiences gave it an A.
Mason Gamble as the five-year-old with the slingshot, Walter Matthau as the Mr. Wilson whose dentures, orchid and peace of mind he destroys, and Christopher Lloyd as Switchblade Sam, the drifter who turns the last act into Home Alone. John Hughes wrote it straight off the Home Alone films, Warner Bros. released it on June 25, 1993, critics shrugged, and it made $117 million anyway.