Mikey, Brandon and their friends, The Goonies stumble upon a group of thieves trying to steal a fabled pirate's treasure. The treasure is in a hard-to-reach cavern so The Goonies must find a way around the thieves to get the treasure first
When the Fratelli brothers argued, Anne Ramsey actually slapped Robert Davi. She was told to hit him as hard as she could.
The pirate ship in the film was entirely real. After the film, it was offered to anyone who would take it. No one wanted it, so the ship was scrapped.
Sean Astin said that he was allowed to keep the treasure map used in the film. Several years later his mother Patty Duke discovered it, thought it was just a crinkled piece of paper, and threw it in the trash.
In the scene where rocks are falling from the cave ceiling, Ke Huy Quan screams "Holy S-H-I-T!" He said he spelled the expletive because his mother made him promise not to use any bad language in the movie.
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