Home Alone 5: The Holiday Heist

 

Ten-year old Finn Baxter and his family move from California to Maine and settle into their new house. Finn, along with his older sister, Alexis, obsess over technology and refuse to do anything with their parents or socialize with anyone else. Finn befriends a girl named Mason who tells him about the legend of a ghost that haunts the house Finn and his family had moved into.
Meanwhile, a pair of thieves named Sinclair and Jessica, along with their new safecracker, Hughes, plan to break into the Baxters' new house to steal a valuable painting hidden inside; completely unaware of the fact that the family had already moved in. When the family goes out shopping the next day; the thieves break into the house, going straight to a hidden safe in the basement. However, before they could locate the painting, the Baxters return and the thieves are forced to flee. As Sinclair leaves, he notices the invitation Mrs. Baxter received for a Christmas party that night, and plans to return again while they are gone. Sinclair then later confides in Jessica and Hughes that the painting they're looking for is The Widow, a portrait of his great-grandmother and her family that was stolen over a hundred years ago. He also mentions that the price of the painting is $85 million, which then later makes his companions want more of the share once the job is complete.
Back at the Baxters' house, Mrs. Baxter and her husband are ready to go to the Christmas party, arranged by her new boss, and they find that her children aren't dressed and are more focused on video games and cell phones. Fed up, she decides to leave them at home while she and her husband go, leaving Alexis's cell phone for emergency calls only. However a snowstorm that gets progressively worse eventually forces Finn's parents to stay at the Christmas party until it clears up.
Meanwhile, Finn runs amuck in the house and violates his mother's rule of not playing video games while they were gone. When the controller he found has a low battery, he gets new ones but drops one down the basement steps. He and Alexis go down into the basement to find the safe, which was unlocked from earlier and discover a secret room with the painting Sinclair is looking for. After scaring Finn, Alexis triggers a trap which locks her in the room. When Finn finds out what happened to her, he goes to a hardware store to buy tools to break her out.
After he leaves the store, only able to purchase twine, he accidentally runs into Sinclair and immediately realizes that he heard him earlier that night and not a ghost. He overhears their plan to break into the house and rushes home to set up some traps like pouring a bucket of water on the front steps (a trap from the original Home Alone film), a big glass bowl of egg nog, and a stocking full of coal, spilling Christmas marbles spread out in the garage and setting up a snow blower to shoot out the marbles, Christmas wrap along with tape, placing a container of tar above a window, a plate of nasty-tasting gingerbread men with a glass of milk (glue), and if one of the crooks tries to use the sink, pillow feathers and flour.
Finn tells Simon, a young man going to college who spends most of his time playing video games, that there are thieves trying to break into the house. At first, Simon doesn't realize that Finn is serious, but then he gets concerned and contacts Finn's parents, who are coming back to the house. The parents, however, think that Simon kidnapped Finn and Alexis and call the police on him. Meanwhile, back at the house, Finn runs out of booby traps and is captured by the burglars. They lock Finn in their van and Jessica guards him while the other two crooks go back inside to open the safe. Mason, however, saves Finn by throwing snowballs at Jessica, eventually knocking her out. Finn escapes to save Alexis and Mason is left to deal with Jessica, encasing her inside a snowman. The burglars succeed in opening the safe a second time and find the painting and Alexis who threatens to destroy it. Finn makes it for Plan B and frees his sister while locking Sinclair and Hughes in the basement. In the end, the criminals go to jail, the family gets $30,000 as a reward for capturing the criminals, and Simon is sent a plane ticket to go back home and spend Christmas with his family.
On Christmas morning, Finn receives a snowboard and an expansion pack to his video game for Christmas. Finn, however, decides to take a break from video games and go snowboarding. Finn is last seen having a snowball fight with Mason before they walk off to go snowboarding together. In the final scene at the police station, the criminals are taking their mugshots as one of the police officers splices a copy of the mugshots into a portrait shot.