NEW YORK (Reuters) – The stately Georgian home where actor Macaulay Culkin outwitted a pair of bumbling thieves in the 1990 hit film "Home Alone" is for sale for $2.4 million (1.46 million pounds).
John and Cynthia Abendshien, the owners of the four-bedroom, red brick home north of Chicago, said they are ready to downsize, now that their daughter -- who became Culkin's playmate -- during the six-month long shoot is grown up.
"We got to know him, and eventually called him by his nickname, 'Mac,'" said John Abendshien, adding he was "a nice, but quiet young boy."
The family lived in the house throughout most of the filming, moving into the four-room master bedroom suite.
"Very few homes have a leading role in a movie, in a sense of becoming an additional character," said Marissa Hopkins of Coldwell Banker, the company handling the sale.
In the film, directed by Chris Columbus, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister is left behind when his parents and older siblings fly to Paris for the Christmas holiday.
Kevin, played by Culkin, spends the bulk of the film outsmarting burglars, played by Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, in the film that became the year's top box office hit and spawned several sequels.
In keeping with its star status, the house will have its own listing website: www.HomeAloneHome.ColdwellBanker.com.
The New York English Tudor home where the famous wedding sequence from the 1972 film "The Godfather" was filmed is also on the market. It was listed in December with an asking price of just under $3 million.
