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- 1990
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
- 1990
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
Directed By: Dennis Dugan
Written By: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
- 1990
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
- 1990
- PG
- Universal Pictures
- 1 h 21 m
Problem Child
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7.6
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Directed By: Dennis Dugan
Written By: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
27
8% Positive
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42% Mixed
5 Reviews
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50% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
27
8% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
42% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
50% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Dugan 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.
Problem Child has moments, or perhaps instants, of misanthropic satire. There also are stroboscopically brief flashes of psychological irony or cleverness. [30 July 1990, p.D8]
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 57 User Ratings
7.6
70% Positive
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16% Negative
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 57 User Ratings
7.6
70% Positive
40 Ratings
40 Ratings
14% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
16% Negative
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
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Every time Problem Child gets an interesting edge, it loses it.
But Problem Child's biggest problem is its young star, 8-year-old Michael Oliver. You tend to take such natural child actors as Dick Tracy's Charlie Korsmo for granted until one comes along who should be delivering newspapers instead of movie lines. [30 July 1990]
There are jokes in this story of a 7-year-old adoptee from Heck, but most of them are funny despite the clumsiness of their telling. The rest aren't funny at all. [1 Aug 1990, p.D7]
With jokes this lame you won't have to worry as much about your children getting any bad ideas.
The film marks an atrocious bigscreen debut for actor and episodic TV director Dennis Dugan.
