Bert Remsen, Danny DeVito, Erica Yohn
It's not hard to see what attracted director Marshall Herskovitz (TV's thirtysomething) and writer Steve Zaillian (Schindler's List) to this tragicomic story of a widower trying to keep...( read more
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DVD Release Date: December 14, 2004
Stats: 160 reviews
Since the tragic death of his wife in an automobile accident, John (Danny DeVito) has been raising his two sons, Jack (Robert J. Steinmiller) and Darian (Miko Hughes), by himself. Many of his neighbors consider John to be the perfect parent, but drinking too much brings out his d...( read more)
I had no idea what this movie was about when I came across it fliping through channels...but it's DeVito so I stopped to take a look lol...so I hit the info button...Jack (Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.) and Dylan Leary (Miko Hughes) and quirky dad John (Danny DeVito) start over in 19...( read more)
I had no idea what this movie was about when I first saw it. I thought it was simply going to be a cute kids movie about learning to love your quirky next door neighbor. I should have known better, as Gary Sinise always plays evil so well. It was a little scary there at the end b...( read more)
what a terrible film
now danny devito is brilliant and its a pretty decent filkm if it was just kept to having a dad who clearly is dipresses becuase of the loss of his wife so he turns to drink so the elder brother then fills as though hes got a lot o his shoulders as he has t...( read more)
Danny De Vito is brilliant in this but its quite a boring, weird film!
Terrific acting, I could never have believed that it would be this good!
It's also a miracle how Reese Witherspoon grew up from being a boys crush in this movie to be winning an oscar for playing June Carter in Walk the line.
Really enjoyed this movie, I was hooked to the scre...( read more)
JOHN LEARY: We're at a crossroads, can you feel it? It's dark down there and there are things, nobody wants to meet in the dark. Whether we'll come out on the other side, hating everything and everybody, I don't know.
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Danny DeVito is a great wondeful but the 2 little boys in the movie are just as good as him.
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