A financial advisor analyzes the McCallister family's spending habits from the 'Home Alone' movies to estimate their net worth and offer insights into their financial planning.
In the classic Christmas movie ' Home Alone ,' a family accidentally leaves their 8-year-old son behind when they leave for an overseas trip. Viewers often focus on another question — how wealthy was the fictitious McCallister family featured in the movie? Financial advisors say the family would be worth a lot today and could do better when it comes to protecting their finances.
The family orders 10 pizzas on the eve of their trip, lives in a house that can sleep 15 people (including extended family) and all fly to Paris. 'They're well off and in a good place financially,' Cody Garrett, a certified financial planner, said of the first impression of the McCallisters' circumstances. To better understand the details of the McCallister family's financial circumstances, Garrett recently did a deep dive analysis of the family's finances from 'Home Alone' and 'Home Alone 2: Lost in New York,' and hosted a webinar with around 25 financial planners to discuss financial planning opportunities that arise in the movies. Both movies were shot long before social media made it popular to flaunt personal wealth online. Nevertheless, the lifestyle the McCallister family shows to the world may not necessarily be an indication of their wealth, Garrett said. 'There's a lot of things that are showing that they spent a lot of money, or at least financed a lavish lifestyle to the public,' Garrett said. 'But inside their own home, they're actually maybe a little scared about money.
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