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Name: Problem Child
Released: 1990-7-27
Cast: John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Gilbert Gottfried

Problem Child

PG
1h 20m
1990

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John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck and Jack Warden star in this hilarious comedy with an offbeat sense of humor. Good-natured Ben Healy (Ritter) and his social-climbing wife Flo (Yasbeck) adopt seven-year-old Junior (Michael Oliver) to help brighten their lives. But Junior soon turns an ordinary camping trip, an innocent birthday party and even a little league baseball game into full-scale comic nightmares. Thinking all his new son needs is some loving attention, Ben puts up with Junior’s mishaps – but only to a point. Just as he’s ready to take drastic action, Ben realizes that beneath the little monster lurks an angel craving affection in this satire on the trials of modern-day family life.

Director:

Dennis Dugan

Producer:

Robert Simonds

Writer:

Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski

Cast:

John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Jack Warden, Michael Oliver, Gilbert Gottfried, Michael Richards

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics Consensus: Mean-spirited and hopelessly short on comic invention, Problem Child is a particularly unpleasant comedy, one that's loaded with manic scenery chewing and juvenile pranks.

Reviews

El Nuevo Herald (Miami)

Rene Jordan

Problem Child takes the theme of the mischievous child to an alarming, and sociopathic limit. [Full review in Spanish]

Terrible. [Full review in Spanish]

Sound funny? The filmmakers here think so. They've jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing aplomb.

It's misguided. It's not funny. And in its lame efforts to be irreverent and hip, it turns out to be just plain mean.

There is something offensive about using an unloved and rebellious child as the butt of bad jokes in this way.

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