The Goonies - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

[alyssa]

During the opening credits sequence, Andy is the first of the Goonies to appear on screen. She is also the only character to have the actress's name (Kerri Green) appear with the character they're playing.

[addison]

In the scene when Chunk breaks the water cooler bottle, his line "I got it! I got it!... I don't got it!" is a nod to the film High Anxiety (1977).

[camila]

Was given a nationwide cinema re-release in the UK (for one week only) over Easter week in 2019 in 4k digital format. The release did surprisingly well for a film originally released a third of a century before and it out performed several contemporary family orientated films that were already on release at that time. The version that was released was the original 1985 cut.

[phyllis]

According to director Richard Donner in an interview with "The Directors", producer Steven Spielberg instructed the cast members to act cold and distant toward Donner on the last week of filming which puzzled him. Shortly after filming wrapped, Donner went to his beach house in Hawaii, ran into a frenzied neighbor who took up his entire day. When he arrived home, the entire cast was there to celebrate with a cookout. Spielberg flew them over to Hawaii on the promise that they not speak a word of the surprise to Donner, which prompted them to act the way they were on the last week of filming.

[jamie]

The script gives One-Eye Willie's full name as William B. Pordobell. This resembles Portobelo, a Panamanian port which has long been home to pirates.

[gerald]

In the scene with the skeleton piano, Andy reads the musical notes on the back of the treasure map and comments that she doesn't know if one note is an A sharp or a B flat. Musically, an A sharp and a B flat are the same note.

[stephanie]

Ma Fratelli and her sons are based on the early-20th-century legend of Kate Barker (known as Ma Barker) and her boys.

[toni]

The scene which Jake Fratelli is found hanged in his jail cell, which he pretends to have committed suicide and overpowers the guard was edited in the 1988 ITV broadcast in the United Kingdom. It cuts from the guard saying "You too down there. Hey turkey..." to the next scene, which Francis Fratelli is seen pouring a ring of gasoline around the front entrance of the jail.