Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

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1. Home Alone Came Out in 1990 and left Theaters Summer of 91

Home Alone was so popular that it had 12 weeks at the number one spot at the box office. The move was doing so well that it pretty much never left theaters. It came out in November of 1990 and didn’t leave theaters till about June of 1991. After all those months in theaters Home along made $533,000,000 internationally, landing it in the Guinness Book of World Records as the “Highest Box Office Gross – Comedy.”



1 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

2. Joe Pesci would forget he was in a family comedy

Joe Pesci kept dropping the F-bomb on the set of Home Alone, but would you expect anything less from him? After a few F-bomb incidents the director told him to substitute it with the word fridge.


2 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

3. “Keep the change ya filthy animal”

The gangster flick footage was created specifically for Home Alone. Although it is heavily inspired by the James Cagney movie, Angels With Dirty Faces.


3 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

4. The Infamous Nail Scene

Daniel Stern actually stepped on the nail, luckily for him it was planned out and he was wearing rubber feet when it happened. Looks pretty good for rubber feet right?


4 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

5. Home Alone is a National Treasure in Poland

No Nic Cage won’t be trying to steal this National Treasure, but Poland pretty much worships this movie. Home Alone became one of the first western films shown in the country and it has aired on national TV every year since 1990.


5 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

6. John Candy’s Role was Filmed in 23 hours

John Candy filmed his role for the movie in a continues 23 hour day. Obviously he wasn’t working hard enough he didn’t make it to the 24th hour. He completely improvised the story about forgetting his son at a funeral home


6 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

7. Buzz’s Girlfriend was the Art Director’s Son

The director thought it was too cruel to make fun of a teenage girl the way they did in the movie. But they had no problem dressing the art director’s son like a girl and taking some photos.


7 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

8. Home Alone originated from just one scene from Uncle Buck

It all spawned from Macaulay Culkin interrogating the baby sitter through the mail slot. The scene gets recreated in Home Alone, except this time with Culkin uses Daniel Stern’s face for target practice.


8 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

9. Kevin McCallister was Written For Macaulay Culkin

Even though Chris Columbus knew that role was written for Macaulay Culkin he had over 100 kids audition for the role just to be sure he was getting the right person for the part.


9 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

10. Spider to the face!

Daniel Stern didn’t actually scream during this scene. They didn’t have him scream because that would frightened the spider. He also only let them do one take of this and then later dub his scream for the scene.


10 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

11. “The Scream”

Macaulay Culkin screaming is based on the Edvard Munch painting, “The Scream.”


11 Interesting Facts About the Movie “Home Alone” (12 pics)

12. Buzz’s Epic Stash of goodies

Buzz not only had the firecrackers and air rifle, he also had a copy of the July 1989 Playboy. This issue had Erika Eleniak on the cover, at the time her biggest role was in Charles in Charge. Later she went on to star in Baywatch.


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№1 Author: Vladimir Harkonnen (6 Dec 2013 10:53) Total user comments: 0


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@5 Oh, please... Even in communist era Poland wasn't totally cut off from the Hollywood movies, at least in 1970's and 80's. American (and western, in general) films used to hit local screens with some delay (a year or two - AFAIK I've seen "Star Wars" in 1979, "Alien" in 1982; "Apocalypse Now" was in cinemas when martial law was introduced in 1981), but quite a lot of hit movies were present in cinemas. So "Home Alone" definitely wasn't "one of the first western films shown in the country". But, as a matter of fact, every year in Christmas season at least one of local TV stations airs this film, as well as "Love actually", and some others. It became some sort of a "modern tradition". ;-P
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№2 Author: Guest (6 Dec 2013 11:57) Total user comments: 0


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# 5. Home Alone is a National Treasure in Poland - that's so true. One TV Station shows "Home Alone" (pol."Kevin sam w domu") every eyar around CHristmas. First "Home alone"
was showed at Christmas Eve and "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" ("Kevin sam w Nowym Yorku") at New Year's Eve. Then tv station changed it and now thera are showed earlier (tv ratings i guess was not good enymore). but when it's christmas time in Poland there's "home" alone in TV.
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