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Best Christmas movies set in each state

By Reed Gaudens

HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN
HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN /
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LOS ANGELES – OCTOBER 4: Actors Billy Crystal (L), Robin Williams and director Barry Levinson pose at the afterparty for the premiere of Universal’s “Man of the Year” at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel on October 4, 2006 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) /

Idaho: Toys

Release Year: 1992

Directed By: Barry Levinson

Starring: Robin Williams, Michael Gambon, Joan Cusack, Robin Wright, LL Cool J, Jack Warden, Donald O’Connor, Arthur Malet, Jamie Foxx, Julio Oscar Mecoso, Blake Clark, Yeardley Smith, Wendy Melvoin, Debi Mazar

Sometimes movies aren’t expressly holiday-themed, but there’s something about them that makes them the perfect watch during the holiday season. Whether it’s a feeling the film evokes or our own emotional connection to the story, we all have a few movies we keep on hand with little to no mention of Christmas trees or Santa Claus. One of those movies, and one most people may not have heard of, is the 1992 Robin Williams fantasy comedy Toys. Taking place at the Zevo Toys factory in Moscow, Idaho, Williams stars as Leslie Zevo, the imaginative heir to the factory.

However, the Zevo Toys factory comes under the ownership of an army general, who implements a new strategy that turns certain models in machines meant to kill. Before long, Leslie bands together with others to overturn the new regime that’s tarnishing the legacy of Zevo Toys. It’s no surprise, that with its limited impact on pop culture, Toys struggled with both critics and the box office. But as with many cult movies, Toys just might have aged into a fun spectacle to appreciate nearly three decades later. How could it not with Robin Williams in the lead?

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