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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) More at IMDbPro »

• In Home Alone, Kevin watches a movie called "Angels with Filthy Souls." In this sequel, he watches that film's sequel, "Angels with Even Filthier Souls."
  
  
• Cameo: [Donald Trump] [makes an appearance in the Plaza lobby where Kevin asks him for directions.]
  
  
• Harry and Marv's conversation at the ice rink was shot at Central Park's Wollman Rink. The Essex House shown is on Central Park South in Manhattan.
  
  
• Director Cameo: [Chris Columbus] Holding a child and pointing to a stack of toys when the camera shows Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) walking through the toy store.
  
  
• Macaulay Culkin was paid 8 million dollars to star in this movie, the biggest paycheck ever to a 12 year-old child.
  
  
• This movie was actually shot at the Plaza in a Central Park Suite. The phone number given for the plaza in the movie (was) an actual working number.
  
  
• The Toy store - "Duncan's Toy Chest" - is named after the Executive Producer Duncan Henderson.
  
  
• Director, Chris Columbus's daughter, Eleanor Columbus appears in this movie as the little girl in the toy store.
  
  
• The McCallisters live at 671 Lincoln Blvd. Winnetka, ILL Phone: 555-1658.
  
  
• A real-life version of the Talkboy, the tape recorder Kevin plays with in the movie, was created by Tiger Electronics shortly after the film's release (along with its pink-and-purple counterpart, the Talkgirl).
  
  
• The name of the show Kevin is watching in the first scene is a fictional game show called Ding Dang Dong. Appropriately, it was taped on the set of an actual game show called $100,000 Fortune Hunt- Illinois' original lottery game show. The host in that scene is Bob Eubanks from "The Newlywed Game" (1966).
  
  
• In the trailer when Harry stumbles into the duffel bag trap containing the tools it shows all the tools falling on him and then the last one to fall out knocks him to the ground. In the actual movie itself Harry is immediately knocked to the ground when the tools fall out.
  
  
• The address of the uncle's house that's being renovated is 51 W. 95th St. This address is on the Upper West Side, a half block from Central Park.
  
  
• All of the children who appeared in the toy store scene were allowed to take their favorite toy home as part of their salary. Even though it didn't work, Macaulay Culkin was allowed to keep the Talkboy.
  
  
• An ad for Duncan's Toy Chest can be seen as Marv and Harry come up from the subway.
  
  
• McDonald's made Happy Meal commercials themed with the movie, after its unsuccessful Batman Returns (1992) market, earlier that same year.
  
  
• Part of this movie was filmed at the World Trade Center of New York, and three months after the movie's release, the World Trade Center had its first terror attack which was on February 26, 1993.
  
  
• Cameo: [Ally Sheedy] The NY attendant talking on the phone
  
  
• Chicago-area band Enuff Z'nuff recorded their song Happy Holiday to be used in the film, however the producers ultimately used Darlene Love's All Alone On Christmas, so the band put the song on their "Peach Fuzz" album. It has also appeared on several "hair metal" Christmas compilations, including "We Wish You A Hairy Christmas" and "Monster Ballads Xmas".
  
  
• Throughout the course of the film, Marv steals six items in broad daylight, mittens, one scarf, one cowboy hat, one wrapped present, earmuffs and a beanie.
  
  
• The product bottle called Monster Soap that Kevin buys at Duncan's Toy Chest is the green substance used for the ladder and the slip for Marv.
  
  
• It was originally scripted by Hughes and Columbus that Kevin was going to reign down more paint cans down the stairs.
  
  
• To be factual, there are at least two different models of the recorder, but only one of the two was used on screen.
  
  

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