Home Alone - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[kenneth]

The fake movie "Angels with Filthy Souls" was the first thing to be filmed, when the budget wasn't very big, so everyone liked starting out on something with cardboard sets.

[brent]

Macaulay Culkin's stunt double was a very short thirty-year-old man.

[carl]

When Devin Ratray was asked what happened to Buzz later in life, he said he probably went to prison.

[gerald]

During the "I've made my family disappear" montage scene, Kevin imagines several members of his family saying horrible things to him. All of his memories appear as scenes in this movie, except for his brother Buzz threatening to feed him to his tarantula, which isn't seen anywhere in the standard edit of the movie.

[brent]

When casting the role of Kevin McCallister, Chris Columbus had already seen Macaulay Culkin in Uncle Buck (1989), but he wanted to audition some other kids first, while John Hughes had his heart set on Culkin. So Columbus met Culkin in New York City, and was very charmed by him, and thought he was fantastic. Columbus auditioned five other kids, and none of them shaped up to Culkin. Columbus went with Culkin because he was not as picture perfect, and he had an instant bond to the kids in the audience. Columbus knew the cameras would love him, and he was immensely funny.

[kristina]

Catherine O'Hara and John Heard appeared in After Hours (1985) and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992).