Is home alone a true story?

And yet, when fans actually go to search for “Angels With Filthy Souls,” the Depression-era gangster flick that Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) pops into his VCR while he's, you remember, home alone, they're hit with the sudden realization: the film never actually existed.
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Who is Home Alone in real life?

Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin is now 41 in real life but has barely changed since legendary Christmas film.
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What was Home Alone inspired by?

1. Home Alone was inspired by a stressful holiday departure. According to Home Alone screenwriter and producer John Hughes' son James, the idea for the film sprang from a chaotic start to a family holiday to Europe in 1989.
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Who is the real villain in Home Alone?

Not only does Uncle Frank lack any sort of emotion, but he also lacks empathy and treats the McCallister's unfairly, despite being related. Many fan theories have proven that Uncle Frank is the true villain of Home Alone.
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Did anyone get hurt filming Home Alone?

Joe Pesci bit Macaulay Culkin for real

The Home Alone behind the scenes reveals that led to an injury in one case. During the rehearsals for a scene where Harry hangs Kevin on a coat hook and threatens to bite his fingers off, Pesci bit Culkin for real, breaking the skin and leaving a permanent scar.
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Was it real snow in Home Alone?

When the producers of the movie wanted to film the iconic blizzard snow scene outside the McCallister family home in Chicago, the only material they used was mashed potato. Flakes of potato were blown around with fans to make it appear as if it was actually snowing.
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Can you survive a brick to the head?

Teeth would be lost, your nose would be broken and there would be multiple fractures to your face. The Bricks Booby Trap: You would die. It would cause multiple fractures to the skull and brain matter would have been exposed – all from just being hit with one brick.
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How old is Kevin Home Alone 1?

Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is an arrogant eight-year-old boy who hates the fact that he lives in a family who constantly bullies him. While his family leaves for their Paris Christmas vacation, they leave him behind by accident.
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How did Harry and Marv get out of jail?

Harry and Marv return in the sequel, which takes place a year after the first film, breaking out of a prison in Chicago during a riot and traveling to New York City via a fish truck.
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Is Kevin from Home Alone a psychopath?

But in no way can a conclusive diagnosis be made in a child. So is Kevin McCallister a psychopath? By the DSM diagnostic criteria the answer is no.
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Is Duncan's Toy Chest a real store?

Though the set looks completely real, unfortunately Duncan's Toy Chest is fake, and it is not a real place in New York or any other city. That's not to say you couldn't visit NYC and be amazed inside a mega toy store. Duncan's Toy Chest is based on the FAO Schwartz store.
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Who says Merry Christmas you filthy animal?

The fake film is the source of one of the most iconic holiday phrases in pop culture: "Keep the change, ya filthy animal." (The version from the fake sequel, Angels with Even Filthier Souls, featured in Home Alone 2, is also remembered well: "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.")
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Why are there mannequins in the basement on Home Alone?

Cauley answers, "In the original script, the mannequins were part of a scene where they came alive and scared Kevin when he went down into the basement. Eventually, that scene was eliminated … It was about [creating] the kinds of shapes that might make a little kid nervous while they're down there."
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Where is Kevin McCallister now?

Kevin McCallister — Macaulay Culkin

Now in his forties, Culkin still acts but in smaller roles. He's recently appeared in American Horror Story, and Seth Green's movie Changeland. He was also part of the comedy rock band The Pizza Underground until he announced their split in 2018.
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How old is Kevin in Home Alone 3?

Alex D. Linz was the same age as his character (eight years old) when this film was released, unlike Macaulay Culkin, who played an eight year old child named Kevin in the original Home Alone (1990), but he was actually ten years old at the time of its release.
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What did Peter McCallister do for a living?

Peter McCallister is a prominent businessman (maybe a day trader?) and Mrs. Kate McCallister is a fashion designer, thus all the mannequins that Kevin was able to use in the party scene. She probably wasn't a couture designer, though.
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Would the robbers in Home Alone survive?

No wonder fans have developed an insane theory that Kevin grows up to become the killer in the Saw movies. However, the fact Harry and Marv somehow did survive their encounter with Kevin means they got to come back for the sequel, where they would proceed to be hit in the head with bricks and electrocuted.
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Is Home Alone 2 realistic?

The first two Home Alone movies feature black and white films that look like real classic movies. The first is Angels with Filthy Souls, and the second is Angels with Even Filthier Souls. Neither of those movies are real; rather, both scenes of movie footage were filmed just for the Home Alone movies.
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Who gets it worse in Home Alone?

Marv takes the worse beating from Kevin (that brick in the forehead in 2 was horrifying) and he's bossed around all day by Harry.
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Is there a Home Alone 6?

Home Sweet Home Alone is a 2021 American Christmas comedy film directed by Dan Mazer, written by Mikey Day and Streeter Seidell, and starring Ellie Kemper, Rob Delaney, Archie Yates, Aisling Bea, Kenan Thompson, Pete Holmes, Ally Maki, and Chris Parnell. It is the sixth film in the Home Alone franchise.
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What did Kevin put on his face?

According to director Chris Columbus' recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Kevin's scream after he puts cologne on his face was a total accident, despite its resemblance to Edvard Munch painting "The Scream." The scream wasn't written that way in the script, but Culkin clearly had good instincts as it became one ...
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What is the flag in the attic in Home Alone?

When Kate calls the police from France, the woman answers the phone "Village police," but when the officer goes to the McCallister home, he clearly has a City of Chicago flag on the right shoulder of his jacket.
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Could Harry and Marv have survived?

If this happened in real life, Harry and Marv probably wouldn't have been able to continue the break-in as they would not have been able to walk due to broken bones and/or paralysis they could have sustained.
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What is the hot thing Kevin puts on the doorknob?

Of the many traps Kevin sets for the Wet Bandits, one that could've had disastrous consequences is the electric charcoal starter that he hangs from the front doorknob.
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What was the most serious injury on alone?

Although no one has been seriously injured in a confrontation with an animal, one participant using an ax accidentally sliced her hand open, severing a tendon and causing her to be ejected from the competition, according to Inquisitr.
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