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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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  • 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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    Jon Turteltaub pilots a moving story.

    Full Review Source: Hollywood.com | comment Comment
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    Robert Nuņez
    Robert Nuņez
    Hollywood.com

    The chief attraction of The Kid is the likable funny business between Rusty and Russ. But it's all so pat, family audiences may have trouble recalling what it was they were laughing at.

    Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
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    Robert W. Butler
    Robert W. Butler
    Kansas City Star

    Warm-hearted and effective.

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    Roger Ebert
    Roger Ebert
    Chicago Sun-Times
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    More of an adult movie which kids might like, than visa versa.

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    Ross Anthony
    Ross Anthony
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    Scott A. Mantz
    Scott A. Mantz
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    A charmless, predictable picture.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
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    Sean Axmaker
    Sean Axmaker
    Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Fun but flimsy bit of family fluff.

    Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
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    Shirley Sealy
    Shirley Sealy
    Film Journal International

    Wonderful family entertainment.

    Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
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    Steve Rhodes
    Steve Rhodes
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    You'll laugh, you'll cry, but when it's over you'll feel guilty about it.

    Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
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    Steve Simels
    Steve Simels
    TV Guide's Movie Guide

    It sounds goofy, but it works.

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    Sue Pierman
    Sue Pierman
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
    N/R

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    Susan Granger
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    For all its obviously commercial push, this is a movie of intermittent pleasant surprises.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
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    Susan Stark
    Susan Stark
    Detroit News
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    Never really sparks much insight beyond the implied simplistic homily: 'You're never too old to change.'

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    Susan Wloszczyna
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    USA Today
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    It's unlikely anyone would ever mistake this clunky, if big-hearted, fable-fantasy for an actual classic -- or even classic Disney.

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    Terry Lawson
    Terry Lawson
    Detroit Free Press
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    Insufferably cloying and sickly sweet for anyone with the least intolerance to 'find the inner child' saccharinity.

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    Todd McCarthy
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    Variety
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    A dishonest baby-boomer melodrama of inner-selfness.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Examiner | comment Comment
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    Wesley Morris
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