Macaulay Culkin drew the map that his character uses to set up the traps.
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Joe Pesci deliberately avoided Macaulay Culkin on-set, because he wanted Culkin to think he was mean.
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Macaulay Culkin's stunt double was a very short 30-year-old man.
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The scene in which Kevin is buying a toothbrush was the first scene that was shot for the movie.
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During his barefoot scenes, Daniel Stern wore rubber feet.
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The film coined a new phrase within Hollywood: Home Aloned, used to describe how other films suffered at the box office because of its success. Executives would say “My picture did 40, but it would have don 50 if it hadn’t been "Home Aloned.”
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Catherine O’Hara revealed in 2014 that Macaulay Culkin still calls her “Mom”.
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Hilary Wolf, who plays Kevin’s older sister Megan, landed a few roles after Home Alone but would go on to compete in the 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics in Judo.
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The shovel wielding neighbour, Old Man Marley wasn’t even part of the script, and was added in at the suggestion of director Chris Columbus.
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The pages on the Playboy Magazine Kevin looks through were taped together so young Macaulay Culkin wouldn’t see any nudity. The cover was from a July 1989 issue.
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The movie originally had more scenes of the family in Paris, France, but test audiences wanted to get back to Kevin.
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Little Neros Pizza is a play on the real-life Little Caesars. Nero was a Roman Caesar