Someone on Reddit Solves Biggest Movie Plot Hole of All Time

One of the biggest plot holes in 'Home Alone' is that the phone lines get cut toward the beginning of the movie, when a tree falls on the wires. There's no electricity, the alarm clocks don't go off, the family almost misses their flight and they can't call Kevin once they realize they've left him behind. Now, later on in the flick, Kevin is able to call and order a pizza?

Now, 25 years later. Yes it's been 25 years, you feel old now? Someone on Reddit has finally come up with an explanation. He says, "I always assumed the tree actually severed the main trunk line to the whole town, but local calls within the same exchange still worked."

So, what this means to you non technical people is the long distance service was down, but a call to the local pizza joint could still be made. Get this, a representative at AT&T actually confirmed the theory. He told the "Huffington Post" that "In 1990, that was absolutely a plausible scenario."

Except that Kevin's dad was able to call the neighbor's house. He leaves an answering machine message about Kevin being home alone, and the burglars hear it. Now this plot about a plot thickens as we stir.

The guy who came up with the theory says the long distance could have been cut just to Kevin's house, or to some houses and not others. Someone else suggested that maybe the neighbors had a different long distance carrier?