Bad Dads In Christmas Movies: A Brief Retrospective
Home Alone and Home Alone 2
Mr. McAllister seems like the kind of ball busting career-dad who throws money at his problems (and children) rather than spending real time with them, but mainly, forgets his own son for Christmas vacation, and doesn’t go to nearly as much trouble as his wife to remedy the situation. He also loses points for letting verbally abusive Uncle Frank around the kids.