3 Lessons From the Child-Star Saga of Macaulay Culkin.

The ‘Home Alone’ scream (Warner Bros.)

Twenty-five years ago, on Nov. 16, 1990, Home Alone opened, and Macaulay Culkin was transformed. The 10-year-old child actor who’d worked alongside John Candy (Uncle Buck) and Burt Lancaster (Rocket Gibraltar) was suddenly a child star, the most influential child star of the movies since Shirley Temple, and the highest-paid of any era to that time. Culkin’s two follow-up movies, My Girl and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, made money, too, and the youngster’s ever-increasing salary quote made headlines.

Then, four years after the ride started, it was over.

Culkin stepped off the fame train at age 14 never to return to its high-speed rails, even as he continued to occasionally act and perform.



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