This Treasure Map Leads to the Cast of The Goonies Then & Now

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Ke Huy Quan Gets EMOTIONAL Being astatine the Oscars 2023

Hey, you guyyyyys! It's clip to bash the Truffle Shuffle due to the fact that we're celebrating Everything Everywhere All At Once's Ke Huy Quan's 2023 Oscars win with a look backmost astatine his earlier work: The Goonies

And yes, the 1985 escapade drama remains conscionable as heartwarming and enjoyable much than 3 decades after the Steven Spielberg-produced movie astir a ragtag radical of kids who acceptable disconnected to find a pirate's mislaid treasure archetypal deed theaters. And let's not hide their eventual goal: Save their families' homes from foreclosure. 

So, what is not to admit astir that ever-timely premise? And successful a movie astir the joys and perils of devoted friendship, the youngsters who pledged their never-say-die loyalty to their Goon Docks squad (though a much elaborate oath reportedly ended up connected the cutting country floor) whitethorn person had religion successful an aged map, but their trust was successful each other.

Meanwhile, the film's formed is an awesome "oh, yeah, that guy!" ensemble of large stars and notable quality actors, like a then-16-year-old Josh Brolin making his movie debut. And, ohio yeah, a recently minted Oscar winner.

But there's no request to send you connected a chaotic goose pursuit to find retired how everyone's careers turned out. Instead, cheque retired the the formed of The Goonies past and now, close here:

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Josh Brolin

Several decades earlier helium snapped his fingers and made fractional of Earth's colonisation disappear, the lad of histrion James Brolin got his ain commencement playing Brandon Walsh (yes, Brandon Walsh), the chill and exasperated but besides protective and big-hearted large brother of Mikey, whose determination to find One-Eyed Willie's mislaid treasure acceptable the enactment successful motion.

Brolin went connected to bash a fewer (dozen) movies, including Flirting With Disaster, Mimic, No Country for Old Men (which won the Best Picture Oscar and reinvigorated his career), American GangsterW.Milk (he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his show arsenic Harvey Milk's killer, Dan White), Jonah HexTrue GritSicario and, of course, Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, cloaked successful CGI arsenic mega-villain Thanos. Plus, helium starred successful the Dune remake and fronted Amazon Prime Video's sci-fi occidental Outer Range.

He has 2 children from his archetypal matrimony to Alice Adair, aft which helium was joined to Diane Lane from 2004 until 2013. Brolin and woman Kathryn Boyd, who helium joined successful 2016, have 2 daughters, Westlyn Reign and Chapel Grace.

Talking about The Goonies, his first-ever job, on Conan in 2012, Brolin said, "It's conscionable 1 of those things that each generation—I've got 7-year-olds present who are like, 'oh my god', Sloth' and I'm like, 'I'm not Sloth! I was the older brother, I understand, I'm gnarly now, the beard and each that.'"

Hardly, but a dose of self-deprecatory wit is ever successful manner too.

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Jonathan Ke Quan

The Vietnamese-American actor made his movie debut successful 1984 arsenic Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom earlier playing the endlessly creative Richard "Data" Wang in The Goonies. He moved into full-time roles connected the TV series Together We Stand and Head of the Class, but speech from spot parts in Tales From the Crypt and Encino Man (with Sean Astin), Quan mostly near acting down to be a stunt choreographer (including in X-Men) oregon different enactment down the camera. He besides graduated from USC's School of Cinematic Arts.

He returned to the large surface for the archetypal clip successful 18 years successful the critically acclaimed sci-fi drama Everything Everywhere All astatine Once with Michelle Yeoh and James Hong.

"I decided to get backmost into acting," Quan explained during the "Reunited Apart" reunion, "because of movies like Crazy Rich Asians. It's truly opened up a batch of opportunities for actors successful the Asian community."

His enactment successful the movie scored him a 2023 Golden Golden, SAG Award and an Oscar among different accolades. 

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Sean Astin

The intrepid Mikey Walsh recovered a treasure representation in The Goonies and followed his ain highlight-laden way successful life, starring successful Rudy, one of the astir iconic sports films of each time, and playing the humbly heroic Samwise Gangee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

The son of actors John Astin and Patty Duke hit intermission agelong capable to postgraduate from UCLA, but different has been acting nonstop, including roles on The Big Bang TheoryStranger Things and Young Rock.

Astin has been joined to wife Christine Harrell since 1992 and they person 3 daughters, Alexandra, Elizabeth and Isabella.

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Jeff Cohen

In hindsight, the lovable Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen wasn't truly each that chunky, but specified were the mid-'80s. Along with his iconic relation in The Goonies, Cohen did immoderate TV (Ask MaxFamily Ties, the Disney Channel movie Perfect Harmony) and past went connected to a vocation successful a antithetic portion of the biz.

He graduated from UC Berkeley and, aft summertime jobs astatine movie studios and an internship successful the ineligible section astatine Universal, decided to prosecute amusement law. He went to UCLA for instrumentality school, graduating successful 2000, and astatine the property of 27 helium co-founded his ain Beverly Hills firm, Cohen & Gardner. In 2008, Cohen made The Hollywood Reporter's "Next Generation: Hollywood's Top 35 Executives 35 and Under" list.

"I've really been connected the different broadside of these deals arsenic a client," Cohen told THR. "So I person a batch of empathy for endowment successful this business."

On the broadside helium wrote astir business, instrumentality and authorities for Huffington Post and CNBC.com, and successful 2015 helium published his archetypal book, The Dealmaker's Ten Commandments: Ten Essential Tools for Business Forged successful the Trenches of Hollywood.

Cohen & Gardner's clientele these days includes Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Oscar-winning manager of Parasite Bong Joon Ho.

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Kerri Green

In what was besides her archetypal movie, Green played fashionable girl-next-door benignant Andrea, who opts for an escapade with the Goonies and sweetheart Brand implicit jerky jock Troy.

Green went connected to prima successful the John Candy drama Summer Rental and the seminal 1986 coming-of-age film Lucas with Corey Haim, but later put acting connected clasp to survey creation astatine Vassar.

She appeared successful a handful of different films, including 1999's Bellyfruit, which she co-wrote and directed, but different than popping up on Mad About YouER and, astir precocious successful 2001, Law & Order: SVU, she moved connected from acting.

Green, who's joined and has kids, leads a comparatively backstage life, but she did articulation her co-stars for a virtual hangout organized by super-fan Josh Gad in grant of The Goonies' 35th anniversary.

And, according to Green, nary 1 has ever gone up to her and exclaimed, "Andy, you Gooooonie!"

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Corey Feldman

Before and aft playing astute aleck Clark "Mouth" Devereaux in The Goonies, Feldman worked nonstop successful the 1980s, starting with voicing puppy Copper successful Disney's The Fox and the Hound and playing boy-who-got-out-alive Tommy Jarvis in Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter, and going connected to Stand by MeThe Lost BoysLicense to DriveThe 'Burbs and Dream a Little Dream.

The titles got a small much obscure arsenic Feldman got older, but helium has ever remained a personality, appearing on the A&E world show The Two Coreys with his aged pal and predominant '80s co-star Corey Haim, who died successful 2010, and speaking retired against kid intersexual maltreatment successful Hollywood, which helium has alleged some helium and Haim were victims of. He penned a 2013 memoir, Coreyography, and has released 5 albums, 3 solo and 2 with his set Truth Movement.

Previously joined to Vanessa Marcil and exemplary Susie Sprague, who is the parent of his lad Zen, Feldman joined Courtney Anne Mitchell successful 2016.

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Martha Plimpton

A acquainted look in several '80s-era coming-of-age films, Plimpton played Andrea's wisecracking champion person Stefanie, who dilatory warms up to Clark (and his Mouth) during the adventure.

She went connected to prima in The Mosquito Coast and Running connected Empty with River Phoenix (who she besides dated), and had supporting turns in, to sanction a few, ParenthoodBeautiful GirlsI Shot Andy Warhol200 CigarettesDante's Inferno. She's besides prolific connected signifier and has been nominated for 3 Tony Awards, was nominated for an Emmy for her relation arsenic a comically put-upon household matriarch in Raising Hope and won successful 2012 for impermanent histrion successful a play for The Good Wife. Her astir caller TV appearances include The Blacklist and Brockmire, and successful 2019 she could beryllium heard in Frozen II as the dependable of Yelena.

Referring to the precocious fig of autarkic films connected her resume, Plimpton told The Believer in 2013, "That wasn't wholly my choice. By nature, I person been fixed an unusual face. My look moves and does unusual things erstwhile I explicit myself. That's not a large prime if you privation to beryllium an ingenue. An ingenue is simply a beauteous miss who it's casual to task your emotions and fantasies onto. I travel with baggage. I travel with muscles successful my look that determination erstwhile I speech successful ways that I'm not conscious of. I'm not a emblematic romanticist lead. At that age, successful movies, I was ever going to beryllium a quality actress, due to the fact that of biology and my face." But, "This turned retired to beryllium a truly bully thing."

Plimpton besides devotes overmuch of her clip to governmental activism, advocating for Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ+ rights.

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John Matuszak

The 6-foot-8 shot subordinate turned actor sat successful constitution for 5 hours to beryllium transformed into Sloth, the Fratelli member kept chained to a seat by his ain household until Chunk bonds with him and Sloth helps prevention the day.

Matuszak won 2 Super Bowls with the Oakland Raiders earlier retiring in 1981, but his acting vocation had already begun with the 1979 dramedy North Dallas Forty, successful which the drug-fueled debauchery that ensnares Nick Nolte's aging shot prima deed adjacent to home. Matuszak elaborate his chaotic playing days (on the tract and off) successful his 1987 autobiography Cruisin' With the Tooz

He appeared successful the John Cusack movie One Crazy Summer and racked up a clump of TV credits aft The Goonies, starring successful a short-lived bid called Hollywood Beat and appearing connected the likes of HunterThe A-Team and Miami Vice.

Sadly, Matuszak died successful 1989 of an accidental medicine cause overdose, exacerbated by an enlarged bosom and pneumonia, and determination were traces of cocaine successful his system. He was 38.

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Joe Pantoliano

The prolific quality histrion played bumbling Fratelli member Francis earlier appearing in—to sanction a handful—La BambaEmpire of the SunThe FugitiveBad BoysThe MatrixMementoThe SopranosBad Boys IIPercy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning ThiefSense8 and 2020's Bad Boys for Life

He won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor successful a Drama successful 2003 for his crook arsenic the deranged Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos.

Pantoliano talked to Collider Connected in April 2020 about sheltering astatine home mid-pandemic successful Connecticut with his wife, Nancy, and 3 of their four kids and their important others: "We've been laying mulch, it's been great".

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Anne Ramsey

Ramsey appeared chiefly connected signifier until the 1970s, but past enjoyed a prolific vocation arsenic an onscreen quality histrion for 2 decades. She played the domineering Mama Fratelli—and they would've gotten distant with it too, if not for those snooping kids—in The Goonies and then the mamma successful question, Mrs. Lift, in Throw Momma From the Train. That role earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Her signature raspy lisp was successful portion owed to the removal of portion of her lingua and jaw to combat esophageal crab successful 1984. The crab came backmost successful 1988 and she died that August astatine the property of 59, leaving six films to beryllium released posthumously, including Scrooged and Homer and Eddie.

She was joined to histrion Logan Ramsey from 1954 until her death.

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Steve Antin

The member of Pussycat Dolls laminitis Robin Antin got his commencement connected camera playing the Jessie successful the euphony video for Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" and starred successful The Last American Virgin before turning up arsenic macho jock Troy Perkins in The Goonies.

Later acting roles included one of Jodi Foster's character's attackers in The Accused; a traumatized worker successful Vietnam War Story: The Last Days; an arc as a detective on NYPD Blue; and a subordinate of the star-packed ensemble in the 1996 drama It's My Party, based connected a existent communicative astir a gay designer who was dying of AIDS (played by Eric Roberts successful the film) and invited his nearest and dearest implicit for a expansive farewell.

Antin moved onto penning and producing, and helium wrote and directed 2010's Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera—a existent passionateness task for him. "I emotion opus and creation entertainment, and feel-good movies," Antin told the Philadelphia Gay News astatine the time. "The archetypal satellite of burlesque lends itself to a philharmonic diagnostic due to the fact that of the quality of it—it's a pastiche of archetypal entertainment, a homage taken from the popular/current zeitgeist of the time." (Asked astir a past narration with amusement mogul David Geffen successful the interview, Antin brushed it off, calling it "a beingness ago.")

Talking to the Los Angeles Times, helium acknowledged that his longtime spouse Clint Culpepper, past the president of Sony Screen Gems, had asked him to make Burlesque—which outgo $55 cardinal and was his diagnostic directorial debut. But, Antin added, "no 1 gets a movie greenlit based connected a relationship." The movie, featuring Cher's archetypal starring relation since 1999's Tea With Mussolini, made upward of $89.5 million.

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Robert Davi

Usually a pugnacious feline oregon a bull successful galore TV parts starring up to The Goonies, Davi played mama's boy transgression (but inactive a pugnacious guy) Jake Fratelli. 

The seasoned quality histrion has worked steadily in movies and TV, appearing in the likes of Die Hard and License to Kill and starring successful the transgression procedural Profiler, which ran connected NBC from 1996 until 2000. Other notable credits include Stargate: AtlantisCriminal Minds and The Expendables 3.

Davi has been joined 3 times and has 5 children.

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Richard Donner

Before The Goonies, Donner had directed a small fearfulness flick called The Omen and thing oregon different starring Christopher Reeve in a cape called Superman, truthful moving with him and shaper Steven Spielberg ensured that the Goonies' wide-eyed awe passim the movie was natural.

Donner—who cut his teeth connected tv successful the 1960s directing episodes of bid specified as The RiflemanThe Man From U.N.C.L.E. and The Twilight Zone—went connected to nonstop each four Lethal Weapon films starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover, arsenic good arsenic the Gibson-starring films Maverick and Conspiracy Theory. His astir caller movie arsenic a manager was the 2006 enactment drama 16 Blocks, starring Bruce Willis.

Credits arsenic a shaper besides see the three Free Willy films, Any Given SundayX-Men and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Donner was joined to woman Lauren from 1986 until his decease successful July 2021 astatine the property of 91.

(Originally published connected June 25, 2020 astatine 12:00 a.m. PT)

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