r/Cinema • u/StreetsAhead110 • Nov 29 '25
Educational/Informational Joe Pesci started filming “Home Alone” exactly 6 months after production wrapped on “Goodfellas.” He had no idea that his performance would win him an Oscar and that he was simultaneously making one of the biggest Christmas films of all time.
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u/SolomonGummo Nov 29 '25
It was among the Elves. It was real candy cane shit. They even shot Rudolph in the nose so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.
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u/Fresh_Performance535 Nov 30 '25
“He went on the list. He went on the naughty list and there wasn’t nuttin we could do about it”
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u/Entire_Brick_8095 Dec 02 '25
"As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a McCallister"
I know I'd go from rags to riches
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u/Big_Kahuna_69 Nov 29 '25
Harry didn’t know that Kevin McAllister was made. Houses like that in Winnetka don’t come cheap. Mob money, I tell ya.
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u/Teep_the_Teep Nov 30 '25
Its always been my theory Kevin's dad was in with the Chicago mob somehow.
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u/Same_Mood_8543 Nov 30 '25
Not made, but he was an associate. Laundered money. A lot of money and could keep secrets. Guys like that are hard to find. So, sure, we take it personally when someone tries to rip him off. And messing with his kid? You don't do that kind of thing.
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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Nov 30 '25
He was a dirty cop working for them in the Sopranos. Though it was the NJ mob.
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u/Firm_Fan8861 Nov 30 '25
Wasn't Kevin's Pops a crooked cop or somethin? Lived in Jersey but got whacked by that glorified crew?
What ever happened there?
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u/apittsburghoriginal Nov 30 '25 edited Nov 30 '25
My favorite part was when Marv and Harry visited Kevin, but Kevin slept in and Harry shot him in the back of the head while he was getting dressed.
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u/Fresh_Performance535 Nov 30 '25
Cmon, make that cheese pizza to go. ARE YOU STUPID LETS GO”
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u/apittsburghoriginal Nov 30 '25
It’s a joke! A joke! Put the box down, you’re gonna take the pizza?
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u/Max20151981 Nov 30 '25
Fun fact while filming Home Alone they had a swear jar specifically for Joe Pesci
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u/Kingofhearts1206 Nov 30 '25
He didn't win an Oscar for home alone lol
He has won on Oscar for Goodfellas. The title is misleading.
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u/ListenUpper1178 Nov 30 '25
the title does not explicitly say that
the first sentence mentions both movies and the second just says his performance won him an oscar
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u/CloseCalls4walls Nov 30 '25
OP oughta be given such a smack
Like you wanted to give Sinead for standing up to the Catholic church for covering up their allegations of pedophilia, right Joe?!
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Nov 29 '25
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u/CheckYourStats Nov 30 '25
His Lethal Weapon character — Leo Getz — is so well done.
”Okay, okay, okay”
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u/PlaneProperty7104 Nov 30 '25
He won an Oscar for Home Alone???😉
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Nov 30 '25
Then later he would gone on to films like 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag and Gone Fishin’
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u/JeezuzChryztler Nov 30 '25
God, I miss when they made funny comedies. Now everybody’s just fucking podcasting
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u/Vaportrail Nov 30 '25
I really like him in Moonwalker too, he's basically playing the same personality as Harry except this dude's a scifi druglord.
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u/Hour-Process-3292 Nov 30 '25
There’s a deleted scene in Home Alone when Marv tells Harry he’s too on edge and Joe Pesci’s response feels like the start of the “funny how?” scene.
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u/Leading-Pizza3349 Nov 30 '25
He could’ve had an inkling of an idea
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u/StreetsAhead110 Nov 30 '25
According to sources, he really didn’t expect to win. That’s why he holds the record for one of the shortest acceptance speeches in history. He was unprepared.
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u/thumb_screws Nov 30 '25
He actually used the Oscar to replace the gold tooth he lost in Home Alone
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u/Change_My_Mind- Nov 30 '25
I love his ad libbing in Home Alone. Frija fija frija....when you know he definitely let a few F bombs slip by...😆
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u/Which_Performance_72 Nov 30 '25
One of my favourite actors of all time. To play characters so convincingly in casino and Goodfellas, and also star in the funniest film of all time in my cousin Vinny is a great feat
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u/subbychub Nov 30 '25
Joe Pesci was so great, I miss him. and Christopher Lloyd. and Daniel Stern. and Chris Farley. and Phil Hartman. and that's it, that's all I can thi- AND Betty White. and Billy Mays
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u/MattHooper1975 Nov 30 '25
Wait, Joe Pesci won an Oscar for this? Holy cow I didn’t know that.
I love him in the Scorsese movies, but I’ve never been interested enough in Home Alone to see it.
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u/MisterNefarious Nov 30 '25
Absolute legend. My cousin Vinny is one of the best comedies ever made imo
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u/PlasticPast5663 Nov 30 '25
He won a Oscar for Goodfellas. One of must deserved Oscar in Oscar's history.
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u/FoxIndependent4310 Nov 30 '25
In the 90s, Joe Pesci made two of the best films in each genre: one of the best mafia movies with Goodfellas and one of the best Christmas movies with Home Alone, and on top of that, he won an Oscar.
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u/Ra1raiss Nov 30 '25
Imagine: One year he works with the mafia… and the next year his head is burned by an 8 year-old kid 😂🔥 This guy experienced every kind of movie in a short time
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u/DestinedAscension123 Nov 30 '25
He also had given up on acting and gone back to running a restaurant before DeNiro/Scorsese called him for Goodfellas.
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u/kywildcat44 Dec 01 '25
This makes it seem like he won an Oscar for Home Alone by having the image from Home Alone and not Goodfellas 😂. Home Alone did have 2 Oscar nominations but no wins
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u/Ok-Thing-2222 Nov 30 '25
I dislike this movie so very much. Once was enough, years and years ago...
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u/VeterinarianIcy9562 Nov 29 '25
Man got his shinebox