The film which features Catherine O'Hara and John Heard as Kevin's parents, includes a character that mimics what meta-film?
Ralph Foody Ralph Wesley Foody (November 13, 1928 – November 21, 1999) was a character actor. He has several screen credits from the 1980s, but is probably best known for his bit part in "Home Alone" and its as stereotypical 1930s mobster "Johnny" in its meta-film "Angels with Filthy Souls" and its sequel "" (both are a parody of "Angels with Dirty Faces"), "Cragie" the alcoholic and negligent Chicago cop in "Code of Silence", as well as the police dispatcher in "The Blues Brothers". He died of cancer in 1999.
Repast (film) Repast (めし , "Meshi" ) is a 1951 film by Mikio Naruse, starring Setsuko Hara. It is set in postwar Osaka and it is about a woman who has moved from Tokyo (her father is a well-known professor) to settle down with her husband. Her salaryman husband ignores her, and she is slowly worn down by domestic drudgery. Matters come to a head when her pretty niece comes to stay and the husband begins to flirt with her. "Naruse shows brilliantly how the husband and wife cling to respectability by a thread." Dissatisfied with his efforts to improve their household life, she returns to Tokyo for a time.