26. Three-plus decades on, the movie still resonates with audiences worldwide. “Anywhere I go, I’m the Home Alone dude,” Stern, now a tangerine farmer, told Chicago. “In 2003, I went to visit troops in Iraq. I was at a base camp, and they wanted to take me into Baghdad, to a jewelry store that they’d secured. They said I could buy earrings for my wife. I was like, ‘What? All right.’ So we go in these cars into Baghdad, and as I’m walking into the jewelry store, we get surrounded by kids going, ‘Marv! Marv!’ Like 16 Iraqi kids in the middle of a war zone in Baghdad still recognized me from Home Alone. That movie is everywhere.”
27. And the bond between the cast remains. Though Culkin and his onscreen mom O’Hara hadn’t seen each other in ages when they crossed paths at Martin Mull’s art show in 2013.
“I hadn’t seen her in I didn’t even know how long, and just right in the driveway, I was like, ‘Mama!'” Culkin recounted to E!. “And she goes, ‘Son!’ And so every time we see each other, it’s always, ‘Mama,’ ‘Son’. She’s very lovely.”
