
The story of a seven-year-old mischievous orphan boy named Junior. He is hardly a model child; mean-spirited and incorrigible. One day, he is adopted by a loving man along with his obnoxious wife named Ben Healy and Flo Healy. Ever since Junior comes into their lives, he turns ordinary days into full-scale comic nightmares! He also leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with Martin Beck (A.K.A. The Bow Tie Killer, a notorious serial killer who ... (Full plot summary below)
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The story of a seven-year-old mischievous orphan boy named Junior. He is hardly a model child; mean-spirited and incorrigible. One day, he is adopted by a loving man along with his obnoxious wife named Ben Healy and Flo Healy. Ever since Junior comes into their lives, he turns ordinary days into full-scale comic nightmares! He also leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with Martin Beck (A.K.A. The Bow Tie Killer, a notorious serial killer who kidnaps his faithful correspondent, along with Flo). And now it's up to Ben as he undertakes a rescue mission to get Junior back from Beck before he plans on hurting him.
Leave your thoughts about Problem Child.
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfThe film gets so lost in angry pranks, it forgets to provide a reason why Junior shouldn't be hung from the nearest tree...The worst movie of all time? Problem Child. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonDugan has a brisk, imaginative comic style; he sets up his gags well, so that there's still some surprise in the punch lines when they come. |
| San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackDugan can`t find a tone that allows him to preserve the shock of the gags while minimalizing their physical painfulness. |
| Chicago TribuneDave KehrDugan can`t find a tone that allows him to preserve the shock of the gags while minimalizing their physical painfulness. |
| Portland OregonianTed MaharEvery time Problem Child gets an interesting edge, it loses it. |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyEvery time Problem Child gets an interesting edge, it loses it. |
| People MagazineRalph NovakThe end is refreshingly less sentimental than it seems to be shaping up to be, but the film's ugly moments can't help but leave a bad taste. |
| EmpireMonty SmithA dark domestic comedy that continuously shirks the courage of its convictions. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonSound funny? The filmmakers here think so. They've jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing aplomb. |
| USA TodaySusan WloszczynaThey've jacked this loud, lame shrieker of a movie up to the highest decibels, both aural and visual, and rammed it in our faces with almost numbing aplomb. |