Perfectly acceptable entertainment in the Mouse Factory's most familiar vein.
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
The latest from Disney qualifies as a true family film: Both parents and kids will squirm.
Nothing great here. But nothing greatly mismanaged, either, which is something that can't be said about most of this summer's movies.
For all its pretensions and a tremendously tear-jerky climax, The Kid does have winning ways and some decent laughs.
With its PG rating and a kid as one of its stars, The Kid is being marketed to children, but it's too long, too talky and too drab to have much appeal for them.
As it marches lockstep toward its foreordained happy ending, this one has merely a sense of inevitability.
Last time, the kid saw dead people. This time, The Kid is just dead -- as in deadly dull.
The journey itself is more charming, and less sentimental, than you might suspect.
The intriguing idea of The Kid is squandered with a simple-minded story line that never meaningfully scratches the surface of questions most people ask themselves.
It has a balanced mixture of adult sentimentalities and childish comedy that should bring both children and adults into the same movie theater...
Screams out for that special, gentle touch, and the filmmakers sadly never realize it. Or maybe they just didn't care.
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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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