Daily Dialogue — December 25, 2010

Kate McCallister: I have a terrible feeling.
Peter McCallister: About what?
Kate McCallister: That we didn’t do something.
Peter McCallister: No. You feel that way because we left in such a hurry.
Kate McCallister: Did I turn off the coffee?
Peter McCallister: No… I did.
Kate McCallister: Did you lock up?
Peter McCallister: Yeah.
Kate McCallister: Did we set the timers on the lights?
Peter McCallister: Yeah.
Kate McCallister: Did you close the garage?
Peter McCallister: That’s it. I forgot to close the garage. That’s it.
Kate McCallister: [She sits back. After a pause:] No, that’s not it.
Peter McCallister: Well what else could we be forgetting?
Kate McCallister: [She sits back again; after an even longer pause, she jumps upright]
Kate McCallister: KEVIN!

 — Kate McCallister (Catherine O’Hara), Peter McCallister (John Heard), Home Alone (1990), written by John Hughes

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week is Christmas. Home Alone suggested by Ferdinand.

Trivia: The concept for this movie originated during the filming of a scene in Uncle Buck (1989) in which Macaulay Culkin plays a character who interrogates a would-be-babysitter through a letterbox.