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

Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.

Morgan Sung

on December 26, 2018

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!

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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."

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(The version from the fake sequel, Angels with Even Filthier Souls, featured in Home Alone 2, is also remembered well: "Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal.")

Twitter users were pretty surprised to learn that it isn't a full movie — including Chris Evans.