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Disney's The Kid

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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

Box Office: $2,989,675

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

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  • Disney's The Kid
  • International superstar Bruce Willis (UNBREAKABLE, THE SIXTH SENSE), along with Lily Tomlin (9 TO 5, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI), Emily Mortimer (SCREAM 3, NOTTING HILL), and newcomer Spencer Breslin star in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy DISNEY'S THE KID. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be -- until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination, Russ does everything he can to make him go away. But 8-year-old Rusty (Breslin), who's anything but happy that he grows up to be a loser without real meaning in his life, can't leave -- at least not yet. At once funny and charming, DISNEY'S THE KID is a magical comedy that's filled with adult-sized laughs.
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    The Kid is a delightful, innocuous family film, one that kids will enjoy as well as adults.

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
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    Erik Childress
    Erik Childress
    eFilmCritic.com

    A forced, frenetic farce which tries to be both comedic and touching, but fails on both counts.

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    Frank Swietek
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    This movie doesn't just want to win your heart. It wants to beat the mortal stuffing out of it until it begs for mercy. If people cry at the end, it'll probably be from the pain of all that pummeling.

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    Gene Seymour
    Gene Seymour
    Newsday
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    Disney's The Kid has a very strong chance at being a 'surprise hit.'

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    Greg Muskewitz
    Greg Muskewitz
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    Has reasonable appeal for adults who had to give up their own dreams.

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    Harvey S. Karten
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    Ian Waldron-Mantgani
    Ian Waldron-Mantgani
    UK Critic

    Simple, paint-by-number feelings.

    Full Review Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | comment Comment
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    Jack Garner
    Jack Garner
    Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

    The characters don't act like real people.

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    James Berardinelli
    James Berardinelli
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    A lame, misconceived comedy with a shopworn, find-the-child-within-yourself message.

    Full Review Source: Orlando Sentinel | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Jay Boyar
    Jay Boyar
    Orlando Sentinel

    The Kid gets bogged down in its sentimental manipulations.

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    Jay Carr
    Jay Carr
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    Dollops out cheap sentimentality by the spoonful.

    Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Jeff Vice
    Jeff Vice
    Deseret News, Salt Lake City

    The Kid has to be the sappiest, most overstated and unbearably manipulative piece of feel-good-through-guilt kind of filmmaking I’ve seen in ages.

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    Jeffrey Huston
    Jeffrey Huston
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    01/01/00
    Jessica Winter
    Jessica Winter
    Village Voice

    Walt Disney's The Kid is a family-friendly combination of Big and A Christmas Carol, without any of the attendant holiday themes.

    Full Review Source: Norman Transcript | comment Comment
    01/01/00
    Jim Chastain
    Jim Chastain
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    The film's plot is rather lackluster and never gets out of second gear.

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    Jim Judy
    Jim Judy
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    It is more than likely that many adults will also see a bit of themselves in the Willis character.

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    Joe Baltake
    Joe Baltake
    Sacramento Bee

    Everybody else might just roll their eyes at the films sentimentality.

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    Jon Popick
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