Trivia for
Mac and Me (1988) More at IMDbPro »

• The scenes of Mac running from the backyard into the hills were filmed in Hacienda Heights, California.
  
  
• Coca Cola and McDonalds backed the movie, thus the numerous references to both of those products.
  
  
• This film ends with a freeze frame and the superimposed title "We'll be back!" But it proved to be such a dismal box office failure that its proposed sequel never got made.
  
  
• The scenes in the McDonalds were all shot in City of Industry in California (just outside Los Angeles). The set was an actual McDonalds that was built specifically for filming television commercials and for crew member training. It has never been open to the public! When McDonalds (or movies, etc.) isn't using the location for filming, it is locked up behind a chain link fence. Everything works in the restaurant, but from its construction until it was torn down it never served a single paying customer.
  
  
• This film is listed among The 100 Most Amusingly Bad Movies Ever Made in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson's book THE OFFICIAL RAZZIE® MOVIE GUIDE.
  
  
• When Paul Rudd appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1993) he often liked to play a prank: he'd set up a clip of his upcoming movie and say he's going to have it played for the audience but instead of the clip his movie, he'd show the scene from Mac and Me where Michael falls into the water.
  
  
• Kim Basinger and Anjelica Huston were each offered the female lead role, but both declined.
  
  

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