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John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Bill is also the guardian of cute pint-size moppet Curly Sue (Alisan Porter), a cutey pie cross between Little Orphan Annie and Tatum O'Neal's Addie Loggins character from Paper Moon. Bill and Curly Sue
Oct 25, 1991 Wide
Jun 1, 2004
Warner Home Video
All Critics (21) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (13) | DVD (5)
The film has a desperately cutesy-pie charm that drips with flop sweat.
A disappointingly sentimental and shallow film from John Hughes about the homeless
A violent, offensive comedy.
Reprehensible from start to finish, and utterly manipulative and mindless to boot.
so vacuous it's in danger of suffocating itself and everyone near it. Yet there's no denying it has a certain mindless charm....
Any similarity between Curly Sue and Shirley Temple is practically intentional.
It's the first film in which Hughes flat-out sentimentalizes being rich--moreover, selling out.
Is this the same John Huges who wrote "The Breakfast Club"? I don't think so.
Cutesy homeless pair (a man and a little girl!!!) bum around from town to town (!) until they literally run in to a sympathetic lawyer (!!!), and that's just the set-up (unbelievable!). Dated because Hughes intentionally means to conjure up the days and spirit of Shirley Temple's joie d'vivre this only achieves a
September 30, 2011Super Reviewer
John Hughes got into making movies with kids in the 90s instead of teens, Home Alone was good, but this one was more mediocre, I think. I saw it a long time ago, I'd like to see it again and rewrite this.
September 6, 2010Super Reviewer
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