9. The McAllisters - Home Alone
Probably the best-known movie parents on this list, The McAllisters are quite possibly the most maddeningly incompetent, scatter-brained parents in human history, because they didn't just leave their son, Kevin, home alone once, but to necessitate a creakily-conceived yet awesome sequel, they did it a second time too! It's not that the McAllisters don't love Kevin, it's just that they just seem to forget so often that he even exists, leaving him to fend off thieves from their home or walk around New York City on his own. I'm pretty sure that if you managed to be this idiotic twice in almost as many years, your son would probably be taken away from you by the authorities; that is a shocking level of neglect. Well, I suppose in reality Kevin would probably have wound up face down in a crack den in New York, but hey, hypotheticals...
Shaun Munro
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Frequently sleep-deprived film addict and video game obsessive who spends more time than is healthy in darkened London screening rooms. Follow his twitter on @ShaunMunroFilm or e-mail him at shaneo632 [at] gmail.com.
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