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Home Alone, though he did not direct it as he did those other films. He also served as producer, and it feels like his baby. It’s set in Hughes’s home turf, the Chicago area, and reunites him with John Candy and Culkin, who both starred in Hughes’s 1989 Uncle Buck. The surprisingly dark, adult content (guns, self-defense, family abandonment) lightened with wholesome humor are Hughes trademarks. 2. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Columbus had only directed two feature films before he took the reins on Home Alone, which would become a template for his major work in the future. Heâ...