Synopsis
Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
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Cast
- John RitterBen
- Jack WardenBig Ben
- Michael J. OliverJunior
- Gilbert GottfriedMr. Peabody
- Amy YasbeckFlo
- Michael RichardsMartin Beck
- Peter JurasikRoy
- Charlotte AkinLorraine
- Anna Marie AllredKid #3
- Adam AnderlyCatcher
Recommendations
- 63
Washington Post
Dugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Every time Problem Child gets an interesting edge, it loses it. - 50
Chicago Tribune
Dugan can`t find a tone that allows him to preserve the shock of the gags while minimalizing their physical painfulness. - 50
Portland Oregonian
Problem Child has moments, or perhaps instants, of misanthropic satire. There also are stroboscopically brief flashes of psychological irony or cleverness. [30 July 1990, p.D8] - 40
Empire
A dark domestic comedy that continuously shirks the courage of its convictions. - 25
Miami Herald
There are jokes in this story of a 7-year-old adoptee from Heck, but most of them are funny despite the clumsiness of their telling. The rest aren't funny at all. [1 Aug 1990, p.D7] - 20
Los Angeles Times
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. - 16
Entertainment Weekly
With jokes this lame you won't have to worry as much about your children getting any bad ideas.
