This article contains minor spoilers for Love Hurts. 

Goonies still never say die.

Ke Huy Quan has an endearing reunion with former The Goonies and Encino Man costar Sean Astin in his new action rom-com Love Hurts. In his first leading role, the Academy Award winner plays Marvin, a cheerful realtor in the Milwaukee suburbs with a dark criminal past that his kindhearted, cowboy hat-wearing boss, Cliff (played by Astin), has no idea about. The two share a brotherly bond, and Marvin credits Cliff for helping him turn his life around.

The Goonies cast reunites 40 years later to honor Ke Huy Quan at his hand-and-footprint ceremony in L.A.

Do the truffle shuffle because the movie features a brief but very sweet nod to Quan and Astin’s days as young misfits who embark on an epic quest to find long-lost pirate treasure in The Goonies. It comes in the form of a framed photo of Marvin and Cliff standing atop a cliff with scenic waters behind them. Marvin is holding a map (touché), and Cliff is wearing a cap reminiscent of the one Quan’s character, Data, dons in the 1985 classic. 

Ke Huy Quan and Sean Astin in 'Love Hurts'.

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"From the beginning, when [Astin] said yes to play Cliff, we were just thinking, 'Okay, how do we give a little nod to all those incredible Goonies fans?'" Quan tells Entertainment Weekly a few days before the film's Feb. 7 premiere. "That was our little Easter egg. Because over the years, the most asked question [we get is], 'Will we ever have a Goonies sequel?'" 

Quan does not know if a sequel will ever materialize, "but if Goonies fans are looking for a little nostalgia or a trip down memory lane," look no further than his scenes with Astin in the movie, he says. "It's real," Quan adds of that bond, calling Astin his "Goonies brother for life." "It was incredible to be able to share the screen with him after 40 years," he adds. "All of a sudden, I was just a kid back on the set of The Goonies."

"You can clearly see I'm emotional" in their scene together, Quan notes. "I just could not believe that I got to act with Sean again." There was also a third Goonie on set that day: Jeff Cohen, best known for his role as Chunk and now an entertainment attorney who represents Quan. (It was Cohen who helped Quan ink the deal to star in his celebrated comeback film Everything Everywhere All At Once.) "He was at the monitor watching," Quan recalls.

Sean Astin, Jeff Cohen, Ke Huy Quan, Kerri Green and Corey Feldman at the premiere of 'Love Hurts' in Los Angeles.

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The Goonies reunion would extend to Quan's hand-and-footprint ceremony at the famed TCL Chinese Theater in Los Angeles on Monday morning in celebration of Love Hurts, then again that same evening for the movie's premiere. Cohen, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, and Josh Brolin were on hand to support their Goonies brother that morning, while Astin would later join his costars that evening for the premiere.

Love Hurts is in theaters now.