On Christmas Eve, there are many, many things to enjoy on television, because TV knows there are a lot of eyeballs out there – many of them belonging to adults who are exhausted already, and lots of them looking for things to keep the young ones quiet, and relatively still. Encore is one of those savvy TV programmers, and tonight presents the three Home Alone movies in a mini-marathon – starting with John Hughes’ smash 1990 original, in which eight-year-old Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is left behind by mistake during his family’s Christmas vacation, and has to defend his home from opportunistic, cartoonish burglars (Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern).