This movie was released after Culkin already did Home Alone 1 and 2 thus framing him as the nice kid growing up in a big family with clever skills to avoid burglars. However the Good Son is a story entirely different than Home Alone. Macaulay Culkin was also born into a large family in real life and supposedly had some rough patches. I think The Good Son shows an alter ego of who this kid could have been OR what he was feeling inside. Without going deep into that topic the reason to watch this movie besides that it was a classic about a young sociopath who has the entire cast fooled except Elijah Wood who was suppose to stay with Culkin during his Dad’s business trip. Some critics felt Culkin couldn’t pull off this role and wasn’t believable. I disagree. One of the scenes that is among favorites is when Culkin surprises Wood with his actions, then he turns to Wood and says how he came across a revelation that he could do anything he wants in life and he could even fly if wanted, he looks sternly into Wood’s eyes and says “Don’t be afraid to fly” as wood just stares back scared as fuck. Some of the moments captured make us all wonder what we would do in these situations or if we put into a situation where we had to make tough choices. Watch the movie and you will see what I mean. It’s a great story that has very few slow parts in it and you see what early signs of what a sociopath looks like. You watch it thinking how could a kid do any of these things living with such a good and loving family. Yet as the pain gets revealed you can see how easily young kids are impressionable with thoughts that they don’t know how to express. What’s worse is when those kids are too smart for their own good and rather use those revelations for bad. The Good Son stars Macaulay Culkin with a smaller role of Quinn Culkin (his real sister) playing his sister in the movie. Culkin comes from a family of actors but none of them ever gained the notoriety he did in the business. This is a look at Culkin in the only time he played a character like this during an era when Home Alone casted such a shadow that it didn’t get the exposure it deserved.