12 Pieces Of Useless Trivia About 'Home Alone'

Buzz's girlfriend wasn't a girl at all. It was actually a boy, and specifically the art director's son.

Joe Pesci kept forgetting he was in a family movie and kept cursing both on and off camera. It got so bad that director Chris Columbus encouraged him to use 'fridge' instead of 'f*ck'.

John Candy improvised almost all of his lines. He also did the role for free as a favour to John Hughes and Chris Columbus.

Michael Richards of 'Seinfeld' fame and Robert De Niro were both offered the role of Marv and Harry respectively. Danny DeVito was also offered the role of Harry, but turned it down.

'Angels With Filthy Souls' was a fake movie made specifically for 'Home Alone'. It was a take-off of 'Angels With Dirty Faces', a 1938 gangster movie starring James Cagney and Pat O'Brien.

Roberts Blossom, who played Old Man Marley, also starred in 'Close Encounters Of The Third Kind', 'Escape From Alcatraz', and George Roy Hill's adaptation of 'Slaughterhouse-Five'.

Daniel Stern's scream was genuine and was not dubbed in afterwards. Stern was genuinely terrified of the tarantula, as it had not been de-fanged or had its poison drained.

The ornaments that he walked on, however, were made of sugar. Not only that, Stern wore fake rubber feet to protect his actual feet from injury.

Although Peter McCallister's job is never revealed, one theory is that he is actually a criminal. When Harry - dressed as a police officer - arrives, his first question is to ask if he's under arrest.

Not only that, tickets to Paris from Chicago in the '90s for nine people would have cost at least $40,000 - if not more. A Burberry duffel coat he's seen wearing would cost $3,000 in today's prices.