I guess nobody has seen it, or can't remember if they have.

Shane is 4 years older than Mac... but would have probably been about 12 when he made 'Our Town'.

The movie looks as if it's worth watching too.

Thanks for the alert gee.

Beautiful thread.  I haven't seen Shane's movie  either but I really would love to.  What a family of boys the Culkins are ! Their parents sure made a good job of them, no matter what the later difficulties were.  Funny thing is that Mac was much the worst actor - unless Shane is worse which I can't believe - but he's also the one really touched by greatness, HE is the one we will never forget with his yelp when he applies the aftershave.  There are some nice Culkin family memories from Keiran in the commentary to Igby Goes Down, O/T for the board but worth a listen.

Well, I certainly would not call him the "worst" of the three. But the thing is he has some very tough competition, since both his brothers are extremely talented.

In my opinion, Macauley has rarely (if ever) had a chance to show the subtlety and depth of interpretation that Rory displayed in Mean Creek or You Can Count on Me, or Kieran in The Mighty or Igby Goes Down.

But I don't take that to mean that Mac was in any way less talented. He had his own charm and charisma, and his performance in Home Alone is of a very different nature than the more dramatic roles his brothers have played. Also, I think that he would have been just as good as them, given the proper roles.

The Culkins are simply an amazing family of actors. I find it impossible to pick one over the other as being  the most talented.

I like Rembrandt's "Culkin Wars", am delirious at the thought of it  -  one notable shining light of this forum is that we don't row, we don't engage in flame-threads and I feel that makes this board unique.  Anyways, back to the Culkins:  UK TV showed a child-stars go bad programme last week; Mac was on it but the best they could drag up was that he'd smoked a weed and appeared as a witness for Michael Jackson !  That was the best they could come up with which proved to me that Macauley had survived a difficult adolosence and shown himself to be the in-charge guy.  Go Mac