Even Macaulay Culkin didn't know the gangster movie in 'Home Alone' is fake

It's the end of the year, but it isn't too late to learn something new before 2019! 

Seth Rogen — and a number of Twitter users — didn't know that the old movie Kevin McCallister watches in Home Alone isn't a real movie. In a tweet, Rogen said he believed Angels With Filthy Souls was an actual movie his "entire childhood." 

And Macaulay Culkin, who plays Kevin in the film, did too! 

Me too! https://t.co/Y24cIHLNlM

— Macaulay Culkin (@IncredibleCulk) December 26, 2018

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In fact, the movie-within-a-movie is a parody of old gangster films like the 1938 film Angels With Dirty Faces. The fake film is the source of one of the most iconic holiday phrases in pop culture: "Keep the change, ya filthy animal."  Read more...

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