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Anybody's favourite Christmas sequel Home Alone two turns 25 this month. To celebrate the festive milestone, nosotros've rounded upwards these interesting facts you probably didn't know about information technology. Merry Christmas, ya filthy animate being.

Macauley Culkin made the big bucks

The child star was paid $four,500,000 to play Kevin – the biggest bacon ever to a twelve-year-old. Tidy.

Joe Pesci treated Macauley mean

Obviously, Culkin once asked Joe Pesci why he never smiled. He reportedly told him to shut upwardly, explaining afterwards, "he's pampered a lot by a lot of people, but not me, and I recollect he likes that."

It was very, very cold

So common cold, in fact, that several of the cameras froze during filming. Yikes.

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Kevin'due south room service neb was massive

He ordered: two chocolate cakes, six chocolate mousses with chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry water ice cream topped with M&Ms, chocolate sprinkles, cherries, nuts, marshmallows, caramel syrup, chocolate syrup, strawberry syrup, whipped cream, and bananas, six custard flans, a pastry cart, eight strawberry tarts, and thirty-six chocolate-covered strawberries. It all toll $967.

Daniel Stern got a gustation of dove

During filming of the famous scene where Wet Bandit Marv gets attacked past pigeons, one bird accidentally flew into his mouth. "It was disgusting," actor Daniel Stern said later.

Light-fingered Marv took what he pleased

In total, the dastardly crim pinched mittens, one scarf, one cowboy hat, 1 wrapped present, earmuffs, a beanie and a handful of alter from the hawker's kettle.

The original title wasn't Habitation Alone ii

It was really 'Solitary Again'. Manager Christopher Columbus didn't want people to think information technology was a remake, then he changed the proper noun.

Donald Trump makes a cameo

The Plaza – a super-fancy hotel where Kevin stays during the film – was then owned by POTUS. He gives Kevin directions to the entrance hall in a blink-and-you'll-miss-information technology appearance.

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The Plaza's real phone number was used

Reservations went through the roof later on the movie came out, with punters desperate to come across the location for themselves.

Kids tried to get Joe Pesci to rob their houses IRL

According to Pesci, who played Wet Bandit Harry, children would finish him in the street and divulge their habitation addresses in the promise he'd burgle them like in the film.

Michael Jackson visited Macauley on set up

The pair had met some years before when Culkin starred in The Nutcracker on Broadway. He also popped up in the video for Jackson'due south 1991 hit 'Black Or White'.

Columbus wanted to film 2 sequels at in one case

Conscious of Culkin's advancing age, Columbus planned to film ii sequels simultaneously before he got besides former. But production studio Fox rejected the thought because it cost as well much. So Alex D. Linz came in for the third film and it duly flopped. Overnice one, Play tricks.

The McCallister family home sold for loads

The four,250-square-pes, 3-story Illinois mansion that Kevin'south family lives in fetched $i.5m back in 2012. Allow's hope the new owners updated security…

There'due south more than i Culkin in information technology

Macauley's apparently the primary attraction, just footling bro Kieran got his moment in the spotlight too. He plays Kevin'southward snotty cousin Fuller.

You can alive similar Kevin for a day in the real life Plaza

The New York hotel offers a 'Alive Like Kevin' package that includes a complimentary ice cream sundae cart, a 25th anniversary haversack and all of the Home Lonely DVDs.

There were presents for all

Every kid who appeared in the toy store scene was allowed to have their favourite toy habitation. Information technology was included as part of their salary though, so technically wasn't a freebie.

Information technology was the only Habitation Alone film to characteristic real snow

Not very Christmassy, but almost festive movies use false snow on location. However, a blizzard hit the Domicile Lone two prepare before the shoot, providing more of the white stuff than predictable.

The bandits would accept been seriously injured in real life

According to Entertainment Weekly, who had a doctor analyse the effects of tricky Kevin'south stunts, a brick to the face would have caused "at all-time, brain damage, at worst, expiry."

Catherine O'Hara was worried mum didn't care enough

O'Hara, who plays Kevin's mum, thought her grapheme wasn't distraught plenty at her son going missing (for the second time). So extra scenes were added to prove her concern.

Tim Curry's hotel concierge was called Mr Hector

Information technology's never mentioned in the film, merely the Pennywise actor's charming doorman did really have a name in the script.

The pigeon woman was inspired by Mary Poppins

Brenda Fricker'south grubby hero, who saves Kevin from the Wet Bandits, was based on the "one-time bird woman" from Disney's 1964 classic.

Joe Pesci shares a grapheme with Orson Welles

Harry Lime, one half of the dopey criminal duo The Wet Bandits, is besides the name of the titular graphic symbol in Welles' 1949 film noir The Third Man.

Did you spot this Pennywise reference?

Think when Kevin uses a blow upwards clown doll to trick Mr Hector into thinking his dad is in the shower? Yeah, that'due south a clever nod to Curry's turn as Pennywise in Stephen King's 1990 mini-seriesInformation technology.

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Ally Sheedy from The Breakfast Gild is in it

The '80s favourite makes a cameo as a grumpy airdrome agent talking on the telephone. Sheedy is best known every bit repose loner Allison in The Breakfast Social club.

It's got Christopher Columbus' directorial trademark

Both Home Alone, Domicile Alone two and Gremlins – all written or directed past Columbus – feature clips from Yuletide archetype Information technology's A Wonderful Life. How very festive.

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