Every crime Kevin McAllister commits in Home Alone according to legal expert

Rewatching Home Alone in 2025 raises a load of different questions.

You might be wondering how Kevin’s parents are able to afford the beautiful house, which itself was sold for $5.5 million just last year with major refurbishment plans.

But one of the biggest questions that Home Alone viewers rewatching the film as adults in 2025 may have, is just how many crimes did Kevin McAllister commit in his protection of his home from the Wet Bandits.

Macaulay Culkin has been open to the idea of returning for a Home Alone 3, even stating that he had an idea in which he is the one blocked out of his house by his own son after their relationship deteriorates.

Whilst the idea from the Fallout star is a surprisingly great one, if Kevin’s son goes about things in anywhere near the same brutality as his Dad did at Christmas the 90s, his character should be worried.

Legal expert revealed the list of crimes that the other characters commits in Home Alone

Unsurprisingly, the Wet Bandits would not have got off lightly (20th Century Fox)

The YouTuber Legal Eagle, a legal expert, created a video in which he summed up all the laws broken in the film, and the list is extensive.

Kevin’s parents are the first he covers, stating that they could actually be done for Child Abandonment or Endangerment for leaving him behind, something which could even have earned them a felony charge.

Whilst he rounds up all the crimes the Wet Bandits carry out, that should not be surprising, going as high as second degree attempted murder.

Where the real surprises come, however, is the pure number of laws little Kevin McAllister breaks in the film.

Kevin’s actual 'crimes' in Home Alone are quite complicated

The crimes begin well before the Wet Bandits become involved, with Kevin assaulting his brother Buzz, destroying his property when he climbs his shelves, and stealing his money.

The YouTuber, whose real name is Devin Stone and is a genuine lawyer, jokingly called Kevin a ‘heartless f*ck’ for mocking Buzz’s girlfriend. You can add these a minor charge for some retail theft of a toothbrush, but his assault on the Wet Bandits is where Kevin really begins racking up crimes.

Kevin clearly and obviously carries out Battery against Marv and Harry from his various Saw-like traps.

The ‘Legal Eagle’ thankfully for Kevin, however, clarifies that under Illinois state law, where the film takes place, people are allowed to defend their home as long as he ‘reasonably believes’ his force is necessary.

If I was on the jury I'd lock Kevin up for this one alone, but apparently that's not how a real courtroom would decide (20th Century Studios)

Where things start getting a bit more tricky, however, is the idea of ‘deadly force’. You legally don’t have to retreat to avoid using deadly force in Illinois as you do in many other states, however, when he retreats out the house he gives up that right since he can retreat safely.

The YouTuber points out that, when Marv and Harry try to follow on the rope and Kevin cuts it down, there is a real argument that this might be battery or even attempted murder.

At the end of his video, Stone tallies up the various crimes and possible sentences.

He states that the McAllister parents would likely get a year of probation for their child abandonment and child endangerment, the Wet Bandits would get 21-26 years for their ‘dozens of burglaries’ and attempted homicide, and Kevin would get off scot-free because ‘no jury would ever convict an eight-year-old of living out a revenge fantasy’.

If I were on that jury, I’d definitely make sure to lock away the mini Saw villain, but that’s just me.