

9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Practical Effects
Rube Goldberg machines that would bankrupt homeowners insurance.
Acting
Alex D. Linz commits harder than the script deserves.

Director
Raja Gosnell
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was originally written as a standalone spy comedy called 'The Spy Next Door' before being reworked into a Home Alone sequel. Macaulay Culkin was already 17 and declined.
The film's North Korean missile chip plot accidentally predicted 90s tech paranoia, though audiences mostly remember the lawnmower scene.
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