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

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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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