Amy Yasbeck, Gilbert Gottfried, Jack Warden

A young boy is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

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51,115 ratings

PG, 81 min.

Directed by: Dennis Dugan

Release Date: July 27, 1990

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DVD Release Date: October 19, 1999

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  • September 29, 2009
    Fucking awful, hate it!
  • August 15, 2008
    Even as a kid i already knew this sucked.
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • January 15, 2008
    Oh yeah... who hasn't seen this one? When I was 9 I used to think Michael Richards was John Turturro... really! Thank God those days are far behind me...
  • June 30, 2007
    Black comedy about a bad boy. I liked his antics. There was a good message about parenting, with John Ritter having unconditional love for the boy, but also some hard love. Some of the boys' pranks were funny and imaginative; I laughed at what he came up with. We wouldn't want th...( read more)is sort of behaviour in reality however.
  • October 25, 2009
    John Ritter is so great in this movie. He seems like he would be a really great dad.
  • October 14, 2009
    La vi hasta el cansancio y hasta llegue a ver la caricatura, bastante descente mejor que Daniel el travieso y hablo tanto de la pelicula como la caricatura
  • September 26, 2009
    A clip round the head would have sorted him out.... Bad Parenting.
  • September 16, 2009
    Honest to God (or something like it) that I do not know, care and/or can tell if this is a good movoe or not because my judgment is clouded by the hours and hours and hours of uninterrupted fun I spent as a child watching this movie and its sequel; whenever they're both on televi...( read more)sion (and it's always one after the other) I can't help myself and see it and have fun. Also, it is very, very important that, like Pete & Pete and The Simpsons, I see this movie in Spanish.
  • August 9, 2009
    I hated that damn kid!

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