'Home Alone' trivia and fun facts
A nightmare for the real neighbors
The scenes of the exterior of the house were shot in a building in Winnetka, outside Chicago, located in 671 Lincoln Avenue. It is a quiet neighborhood that, after the movie success, saw how hundreds of tourists came to take photos of the exterior, specially at Christmas. The neighbors were so upset they even asked Google to remove the house from the "Steet View" portion.
The first scene
The scene in which Kevin is buying a toothbrush was the first scene shot for the movie.
Buzz's "girlfriend"
When Kevinn finds a photo of Buzz girlfriend, actually is a picture of a boy, because the director consider it would be cruel to make the joke with a picture of a real girl.
A difficult shooting schedule
Due to child labor laws, Macaulay Culkin could only work five hours a day. Because he is in almost all of the movie scenes, the team had to plan all the shooting with his schedule.
We want more Kevin
The initial version of the film had more scenes of the family in Paris. But when the film was tested everybody wanted more Kevin scenes and less of the McCallisters.