For a film geared for the whole family to be successful, it needs to have plenty of fun moments. However, some family films are simply more fun than others. For instance, the publication Collider recently released a list of the “8 most fun family movies ever made.”
The ranking, published on September 1, featured popular films like 1995’s Toy Story, Home Alone from 1990, and 2025’s KPop Demon Hunters. According to the publication, the “most fun family movie ever made” is the 1985 Richard Donner-directed action film, The Goonies, starring Sean Astin, Jeff Cohen, Martha Plimpton, Corey Feldman, Ke Huy Quan, and Josh Brolin.
The Goonies, written by filmmaker Chris Columbus, who crafted the screenplay from an idea by Steven Spielberg, holds a score of 77 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
Chris Columbus Explained How He Ended Up Penning the Script for ‘The Goonies’
In an August 2025 interview with GQ, where he discussed his major career milestones, Columbus explained how he became the screenwriter for The Goonies. He said after he wrote the script for the 1984 film Gremlins, executive produced by Spielberg, the Jaws director “offered [him] an office at Amblin,” his production company.
“So at Amblin at that time, it was a magical time, just about eight of us there, Kathy Kennedy, Frank Marshall, John Williams had an office. Robert Zemeckis had an office, and I had an office three doors down from Steven,” said Columbus during the interview. “So it was like working at a newspaper, I’d run to his office, we’d discuss things. And in those meetings, that’s where Steven started to come up with the idea and the storyline for Goonies.”
Columbus said that when “Steven started to talk about this story,” he took “copious notes.”
“Then we decided to start writing it. So I was just three doors down. I’d write three or four pages, take them to Steven’s office, he would make some corrections, and I would go back. And that’s how the script came to be,” said Columbus.
He also said he considered working on The Goonies as his “graduate school of filmmaking.”
“I learned a lot about how to structure a film, I became a much better writer, and it sort of paved my way in terms of becoming a director by working with Steven on The Goonies script,” said Columbus during the GQ interview.
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