Home Alone

It may be filled to the brim with violence that’s presented cartoonishly (yet is astoundingly disturbing if pondered for more than a minute or so) but it’s the perfect fantasy of a young boy. The suburban home becomes a child’s own castle and the means to defend it are as whimsical and, to use the most fitting parlance, "awesome" as a kid could possibly dream up. Also, the film features a scene between John Candy and Catherine O’Hara in the back of a truck that’s worth the price of admission all by itself.