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Kevin boards the wrong plane and lands in New York with his dad's bag and credit card — cue the Plaza Hotel, the pigeon lady, and traps somehow crueler than the first movie's. The rare sequel kids argued was better than the original.
Macaulay Culkin as the richest kid in the world in a mansion with a working McDonald's inside it—a fantasy of 90s excess that hit a little different for a generation of latchkey kids. The film was panned and underperformed at the box office, and yet Richie Rich became a cultural touchstone for a very specific kind of 90s wish fulfillment.