Home Alone (1990) is a seminal Christmas comedy that follows eight-year-old Kevin McCallister, who is accidentally left home alone and must defend his house from two bumbling burglars.
: While the exterior is a real house, many interior scenes were actually built inside a high school gymnasium.
: Pesci deliberately avoided Culkin on set to ensure the child actor was genuinely intimidated by him during their scenes.
: Due to budget constraints, the BB pellet that hits Marv in the forehead was hand-animated by a Chicago artist for $600.
: It held the Guinness World Record for the highest-grossing live-action comedy in a single country for 27 years.
: John Candy’s airport van monologue was entirely improvised, and he filmed all his scenes in a single 23-hour day.
