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30 years have passed since its premiere and “My poor angel(“Home Alone” in the original language) remains a favorite movie during the holiday season. While most have seen the Macaulay Culkin movie multiple times, they probably don’t know all the curious details.
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That’s why Time shared a list of things you probably didn’t know about the movie that was released on November 16, 1990 and starring actors like Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O’Hara, Roberts Blossom, John Heard and John Candy.
1. THE TARANTULA WAS REAL
One of the things Kevin does to get rid of the ‘Wet Bandits’ is put his brother Buzz’s tarantula in Marv’s face. As it turns out the arachnid was real, Daniel Stern agreed to shoot her as long as the scene was all at once. The production team managed, but they preferred to record the scream separately so as not to scare the spider.
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2. THE YOUNGER MACAULAY BROTHER
In “My poor angelKieran Culkin played cousin Fuller and more than 15 years later Macaulay Culkin’s younger brother became Roman Roy in Succession, a series of HBO about a dysfunctional family that owns an entertainment and audiovisual media empire.
3. THE SCRIPT WAS CREATED IN LESS THAN 10 DAYS
James Hughes, son of screenwriter John Hughes, said his father wrote the script for this film in less than 10 days, the idea came to him because of his concerns about the family’s first trip to Europe in 1989.
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“Two weeks later, after returning home, he revised the premise: what if one of the children was accidentally abandoned?” James wrote in a 2015 article for Chicago magazine. “In the next nine days he completed the first version of Home Alone.”
4. THE HOUSE OF THE MCCALLISTERS
The house Kevin defended with everything he had on hand is now worth over $ 1.5 million. According to the Chicago Tribune, the 4,250-square-foot Georgian-style property in Winnetka, Illinois, sold for $ 1,585 million in 2015 after nearly a year on the market, although more was expected.
5. “MI POOR ANGELITO” AND ITS WORLD RECORD
After the premiere in November 1990 “My little angelSwept the U.S. box office over the Christmas season of 1990, and success continued into the first half of the following year. By staying at number one for 12 weeks and earning $ 285,761,343 during that period, it became the highest-grossing film of that year and the highest-grossing comedy ever. He held that world record until 2017, when the Chinese blockbuster Die Never Say took his place.
6. JOE PESCI ACCIDENTALLY BITT MACAULAY CULKIN
While rehearsing the scene where the Wet Bandits finally catch Kevin and threaten to bite Harry in the fingers, Joe Pesci accidentally bit Macaulay Culkin, the actor said in a 2004 interview with Rule Forty Two.
“In the first Home Alone they hung me on a coat rack and Pesci says, ‘I’m going to bite all your fingers, one by one.’ And during one of the rehearsals he bit me and broke my skin, ”he said.
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ROBERT DE NIRO CAN BE A ‘WET BANDIT’
According to Mental Floss, before Joe Pesci was considered for the role of Harry Lyme, the production thought of Robert De Niro. But the famous actor turned him down, as did Jon Lovitz from “Saturday Night Live.”
8. ELVIS PRESLEY’S COOPERATION THEORY
Although “My poor angelReleased 13 years after Elvis Presley’s death, some believe the Rock and Roll King made a cameo for the movie. He supposedly appears during the scene where Kevin’s mother tries to get tickets at Scranton airport. However, others argue that it is the extra Gary Grott who appeared in several of Chris Columbus’s films.
9. BUZZ’S BRIDE WAS A CHILD IN POTENTIAL
In 2013, Devin Ratray told Yahoo that Buzz’s girlfriend was actually a boy in costume because the producers thought it cruel to cast a girl for the part. “They decided it wouldn’t be fun to just let a girl be funny. The art director had a son who was more than willing to volunteer for the role. I think if I had known it was going to be the most profitable family comedy of all time, I could have thought about it better. “
10. OLD MARLEY WAS NOT PART OF ‘AT HOME ALONE’
Old Man Marley (Roberts Blossom) wasn’t part of John Hughes ‘first draft of the script, but the writer added it as a nod to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to give the story a little more heart.