Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even 1992 PG, 96 min. Genre: Comedy / Drama aka: Stepkids
Director: Joan Micklin Silver Cast: Hillary Wolf, David Strathairn, Margaret Whitton, Griffin Dunne, Patricia Kalember, Adrienne Shelly, Dan Futterman, Jenny Lewis, Ben Savage, Sean Blackman, Joe D'Angerio, Googy Gress
Thirteen-year-old Laura (Hillary Wolf) gives up on trying to figure out her parents' multiple marriages, divorces, and arguments. Laura runs away from her brother's (Griffin Dunne) home in the woods where new experiences of living on her own teach her how to deal with her feelings about her family. Meanwhile, Laura's worried family members reconcile their differences in the process of searching for her.
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Home Alone 1990 PG, 102 min. Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama
Director: Chris Columbus Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Roberts Blossom, John Candy, Angela Goethals, Devin Ratray, Gerry Bamman, Hillary Wolf, Larry Hankin, Michael C. Maronna, Daiana Campeanu, Kristin Minter
In the excitement and confusion of preparing for a family Christmas vacation in Paris, young Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is inadvertently left at home by himself. He becomes remarkably adept at providing his own entertainment and hunger needs as well as warding off two bungling burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern).
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York 1992 PG, 120 min. Genre: Family / Comedy / Drama / Adventure
Director: Chris Columbus Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Devin Ratray, Tim Curry, Gerry Bamman, Brenda Fricker, Dana Ivey, Hillary Wolf, Maureen Elisabeth Shay, Michael C. Maronna, Terrie Snell, Jedidah Cohen
This sequel of "Home Alone" again features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin who does not do well in arriving at the right place on family vacations. This time, Kevin boards the wrong plane and arrives in New York City while the rest of his family flies to Florida for Christmas vacation. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are back in their roles as bungling burglars.
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A Matter of Principle 1984 TV, 56 min. Genre: Family
Director: Gwen Arner Cast: Alan Arkin, Barbara Dana, Virginia Madsen, Danny Corkill, Mary Seibel, Deanna Dunagan, Hillary Wolf, Gary Cole, Tony Arkin, Aaron Freeman
Highly principled Flagg Purdy (Alan Arkin) goes too far when he destroys the Christmas tree that his wife (Barbara Dana) and their 11 children bring home on the grounds that it was extravagant. After his wife and children leave him, Flagg must rethink his Scrooge-like behavior.
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Waiting for the Light 1990 PG, 94 min. Genre: Comedy
Director: Christopher Monger Cast: Teri Garr, Shirley MacLaine, Clancy Brown, Vincent Schiavelli, Jack McGee, John Bedford Lloyd, Hillary Wolf, Colin Baumgartner, Jeff McCracken, Bob Henry
This offbeat story is about Kay (Teri Garr) who inherits a small-town cafe and begins a new life with her children and strange Aunt Zena (Shirley MacLaine). When Zena and the kids play a practical joke on a neighbor, the event sets off a chain of events that results in people thinking a miracle has been performed. Soon, would-be believers flock into the town.
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| 1. Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even (1992) aka: Stepkids
2. Home Alone (1990)
3. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
4. A Matter of Principle (1984)
5. Waiting for the Light (1990)
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