Plot
A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.
Release Year: 1990
Rating: 4.6/10 (11,818 voted)
Director:
Dennis Dugan
Stars: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Jack Warden
Storyline A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.
Writers: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Cast: John Ritter
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Ben
Jack Warden
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Big Ben
Michael Oliver
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Junior
Gilbert Gottfried
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Mr. Peabody
Amy Yasbeck
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Flo
Michael Richards
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Martin Beck
Peter Jurasik
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Roy
Charlotte Akin
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Lorraine
Anna Marie Allred
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Kid #3
Adam Anderly
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Catcher
Robert A. Anderson
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Boy in Chair
Cody Beard
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2nd Baseman
Jordan Burton
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Kid #1
Eli Cummins
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Umpire
John S. Davies
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Paramedic
Taglines:
Attila the Hun. Ivan the Terrible. Al Capone. They were all seven once.
Release Date: 27 July 1990
Filming Locations: 955 N Galloway Ave, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Opening Weekend: $10,000,000
(USA)
Gross: $53,470,900
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The doll that Junior takes the bow-tie from in the orphanage is a "My Buddy" doll that is missing its striped shirt and tennis shoes. When sold in stores, the doll never originally came with a bow-tie.
Goofs:
Continuity:
During the "I wonder if he's got change for a 20" scene, Junior has far more money in his drawer than he took from Big Ben's wallet.
Quotes: Little Ben Healy:
We're doing what everyone has been doing to him, I mean it's easy to give up on a kid. Flo Healy:
Damn straight it is. Little Ben Healy:
But isn't that what's wrong with the world today? Problems just don't go, Flo! So the question here is what are we going to do with our little problem child? I'll tell you what we are going to do. Something no one else has ever done to him before. We're gonna love him...
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User Review
This Is Funny
Rating: 7/10
I'm not a fan of comedies but any movie that starts with a scene of
school children writing to their penpals with the following dialogue :
" Dear Queen Elizabeth . How is England ? "
" Dear Bishop Tutu . How are you ? "
" Dear bow tie serial killer . I have all your newspaper articles "
has something going for it , and the best thing about PROBLEM CHILD is
the amount of very bad taste comedy . It's almost like a Farrelly
Brothers comedy ( THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT MARY , KINGPIN etc ) in both
feel and execution . Okay so it's a goofy movie , okay some of the
acting is poor , and okay you can see some of the jokes coming a mile
away ( Oh a bear costume . I bet a real bear will turn up within the
next five minutes ) but I watched it on TV one wet Sunday afternoon and
had a few laughs
I can't help thinking that the poor response from many forum members
might be down to the fact that this was marketed as a " family comedy "
. I can just imagine many parents renting this from the video store ,
taking it home and watching it with their cherubs only to find it
features attacks on religion and family pets . I reckon Joe Stalin
would have enjoyed this movie as much as I did
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