What Happened to the 'Home Alone' Cast? What They Look Like Now!
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It was also the highest-grossing Christmas film until it was surpassed by Dr. Seuss' The Grinch in 2018. Home Alone was initially set to be financed and distributed by Warner Bros. Hughes promised that he could make the movie for less than $10 million, considerably less than most feature film production budgets of that era. Concerned that the film might exceed that amount, Hughes met secretly with 20th Century Fox before production to see if they would fund the project if Warner proved inflexible. According to executive producer Scott Rosenfelt, a copy of the script was "clandestinely" delivered to Fox, bypassing the legal restrictions that would have otherwise prevented Fox from seeing it until the project was in turnaround.
Years before filming the Christmas classic, she met Eugene Levy in the Toronto branch of the improv theater group Second City. The two have co-starred in several movies together, but nowadays, they're iconically known as the parents on the beloved Canadian sitcom Schitt's Creek,for which they both scored Emmys in 2020. She's been in the spotlight since the '70s and starred in well-known projects like Beetlejuice, Six Feet Under, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Skylanders Academy.
Daniel Stern (Marv)
The group later went to Ratray’s Manhattan apartment for another drink. Even though he's grown up, Macaulay will always be the boy who brought Kevin McAllister to life. We wish him the best as he begins his new journey as a husband and father.
By the age of 9, the young actor had nearly upstaged starJohn Candy inAllein mit Onkel Buck (his deadpan interrogation of Candy was Buck's funniest scene). Then, in 1990, writer John Hughes turned his finished Kevin - Allein zu Haus script over to director Chris Columbus with a suggestion to consider Culkin for the lead. Though Macaulay was the first kid Columbus saw, he was skeptical about having him in the lead and saw over 200 other possible actors and he admitted that no one came as close to being as good as Culkin. By the callback interview, Mack had memorized two scenes, and Columbus was sure he found his "Kevin McCallister".
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Devin Ratray in a 1990 publicity image for the film "Home Alone." It was the news of Ratray’s arrest in Oklahoma that prompted Lisa Smith to contact prosecutors about a police report she had filed in 2017, accusing the actor of raping her in New York City. Prosecutors, she said, incorrectly believed she wanted to remain anonymous and didn’t want to press charges.
103 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$18 millionBox office$476.7 millionHome Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara. Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris. Despite other successful roles in films such as Casino, My Cousin Vinny, Gone Fishin' and Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, the actor kept out of the limelight after 1999, announcing his retirement from acting to focus on his music career. In 1998, Macaulay married actressRachel Miner, but separated in 2000 because Rachel wanted to start a family and Mack wanted to get back into acting.
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On December 8, 2021, Ratray allegedly strangled his girlfriend while in a hotel room in Oklahoma. In late 2007, a documentary film crew followed Ratray's attempts to win the heart of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. He used 'love disks' -- love letters set to music and images—to serenade her, and traveled from New York, to Alabama, Denver, Palo Alto and Washington, DC to court her. The resulting film, Courting Condi, was due for international release in fall 2008. Harry and his partner Marv knew that the McCallisters were leaving their large home for the holidays, so they planned on breaking in and robbing them before they returned. Unbeknownst to Harry, Kevin was left home alone, which meant his plan had a massive speed bump.
Since then, he’s only taken up scarce acting projects and has instead focused on picking up projects he feels passionate about. He started a rock band, The Pizza Underground, in 2013, and launched a parody lifestyle website called Bunny Ears in 2018. That same year, Macaulay delighted fans by returning to his “Home Alone” character Kevin in a Christmas ad for Google Assistant. As Macaulay's fame grew, so did his dismay for his Hollywood lifestyle. But in 1994, he found his way out; His parents had split, so the young actor took his chance to quit acting and pursue a normal life as an adolescent. He attended a private school in Manhattan and turned down multiple acting jobs.
On the set, Pesci and Stern both had difficulty refraining from cursing, which became annoying to Pesci, since Culkin was on set as well. Pesci's use of "cartoon cursing", or menacing gibberish, garnered comparisons to Looney Tunes character Yosemite Sam. For the film within a film, Angels with Filthy Souls , shooting took only one day, on the final "test day" prior to the official start of principal photography. To create the illusion that the film was an authentic 1940s gangster film, the scene was filmed on black-and-white negative film, and Johnny's office featured props from that era.
Billy Hopkins, the casting director to give Macaulay his very first job, said that even getting the boy to his rehearsals was a struggle. He is the brother of Shane Culkin, Dakota Culkin, Kieran Culkin, Quinn Culkin, Christian Culkin, and Rory Culkin, most of whom have also acted. Macaulay's mother, who is from North Dakota, is of German and Norwegian descent. Macaulay's father, from Manhattan, has Irish, German, English, Swiss-German, and French ancestry. Culkin starred in Sex and Breakfast, a dark comedy written and directed by Miles Brandman. Alexis Dziena, Kuno Becker and Eliza Dushku also star in this story of a couple whose therapist recommends they engage in group sex.
Kevin McCallister lived with his older brothers and sisters in the McCallister house in Winnetka. Being the youngest sibling he would sometimes get tormented by the others. He had enough of being tormented and being in a house with so many people that he declared when he grew up and got married he would be living alone.
With Macaulay Culkin, Catherine O'Hara, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern as the leads, Home Alone had some of the best '90s actors on-screen. The next day, on Christmas, Peter and Natalie went to pick up the royals after their flight was cancelled the day before. Kevin tried to get rid of the suspected inside-man Prescott, but learned that Natalie's maid Molly was the inside man and Marv's mother.
John Mulaney was asked to audition for the role of Kevin after being scouted in a children’s sketch comedy group, but his parents refused the opportunity. Columbus finally met with Culkin and agreed he was the right choice. He also stars as Pete Davidson's grandfather in Bupkis, the forthcoming Peacock comedy series based on a fictionalized version of Davidson's life.
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