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Disney's The Kid (2000)
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Reviews Counted:95
Fresh:47
Rotten:48
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: Critics find The Kid to be too sweet and the movie's message to be annoyingly simplistic.
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Russ Duritz is a success--he has looks, he has money, and he has power. The only things he's missing are friends and a conscience. But when an eight-year-old boy mysteriously keeps popping up in... Russ Duritz is a success--he has looks, he has money, and he has power. The only things he's missing are friends and a conscience. But when an eight-year-old boy mysteriously keeps popping up in his high-security home, Russ finds things getting strange: The boy turns out to be himself at age eight--Rusty. Once Russ is able to even accept that the boy is who he says he is (with the hilarious help of Dana Ivey as a therapist under pressure and Lily Tomlin as Russ's assistant), he resists being associated with that image of himself yet again: a pudgy "loser" with a speech impediment. His halfhearted attempts to court his assistant, Amy, are accelerated when his younger self decides to take a hand. Russ thinks he's supposed to help his eight-year-old self become less of a geek, but Rusty might be there to teach Russ a thing or two about the things that really matter. Director Jon Turteltaub also produced this nostalgic, shamelessly emotional film, which features cameos by Larry King and Harold Greene. [More]
Starring: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin
Starring: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Jean Smart, Chi McBride
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Screenwriter: Audrey Wells
Producer: Jon Turteltaub, Christina Steinberg, Hunt Lowry
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Reviews for Disney's The Kid
This is obviously a blowoff role for Willis; apart from a few frantic scenes where he thinks he's crazy, he appears to be reading lines in his sleep.
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January 01, 2000:
Disney's The Kid has a very strong chance at being a 'surprise hit.' ![]()
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January 01, 2000:
Too bad infamously awful director Jon Instinct Turteltaub is at the helm. ![]()
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January 01, 2000:
After his great interplay with young Haley Joel Osment in The Sixth Sense, Willis has had lots of practice working this kids -- which should help him here. ![]()
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January 01, 2000:
A summer release from Disney with Willis and a kid? I see dead presidents -- tens of millions of 'em -- everywhere. ![]()
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