The Kid (2000)
The Kid (2000)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:43:54 | 7,77 Gb
Audio: English, French, Spanish - AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps (each) | Subs: English SDH, Spanish
Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover | 01:43:54 | 7,77 Gb
Audio: English, French, Spanish - AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps (each) | Subs: English SDH, Spanish
Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer
Russ Duritz is a wealthy L.A. image consultant, but as he nears 40, he's cynical, dogless, chickless, estranged from his father, and he has no memories of his childhood. One night he surprises an intruder, who turns out to be a kid, almost 8 years old. There's something oddly familiar about the chubby lad, whose name is Rusty. The boy's identity sparks a journey into Russ's past that the two of them take - to find the key moment that has defined who Russ is. Two long-suffering women look on with disbelief: Russ's secretary, Janet, and his assistant, the lovely Amy, to whom Rusty takes a shine. What, and who, is at the end of this journey?
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Seldom does one find a film that meets expectations so thoroughly. "The Kid" is exactly the kind of movie we foresee it's going to be–a cutesy-poo, feel-good fantasy. It doesn't let us down. The film is technically titled "Disney's The Kid" to differentiate it from the 1921 Charlie Chaplin-Jackie Coogan silent movie, a motion picture it has nothing to do with. This 2000 "The Kid," except in sheer heartwarming sentimentality, is an entirely different vehicle. It's solid family entertainment, to be sure, but it's predictable from the word "go."
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"The Kid" is all about the personality changes we go through from childhood to maturity and suggests that often these changes are not for the best. Bruce Willis stars as Russ Duritz, a rude, high-powered, hard-driven man, ironically working as an image consultant who can't manage his own life or image. For Russ, time is money, and he has no time for anything but business. He certainly has no time for friends or family. He's forty years old and single, for obvious reasons; he's a thoroughly dislikable fellow. Willis is typically polished and professional in the part, but his role doesn't give him much more than a single dimension to expand upon until late in the story, and then it's still not much.
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Lily Tomlin plays his secretary, Janet, the only person who has dared to stand up to him or who has ever undertaken the task of trying to understand him. She's one of the best things in the film, but, unfortunately, little is made of her character and before long she disappears entirely. Emily Mortimer plays Amy, Russ's put-upon, on-again/off-again friend and assistant.
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It's after one of Russ's more stress-filled days that he hears a noise in the night. What he finds downstairs is a cute, pudgy little kid of eight, played by cute, pudgy little Spenser Breslin. The kid is him. It's Russ's younger self, Rusty, his forgotten childhood self. At first, both Russ and Rusty think they're hallucinating. How Rusty got there or why he's there at all are for a long while open to question for both of them. Turns out, naturally, that Rusty was time warped to the future to teach his older counterpart something about himself, to help the older Russ get in touch with his more innocent, inner feelings.
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The trouble with the film is that you can read every plot move about seventy script pages in advance, and you know exactly how the whole thing's going to end from page one. I don't suppose that will make it any the less enjoyable for viewers interested in PG-rated fun; I mean, after all, like most people I, too, enjoy watching favorite films over and over again, even when I know exactly what's going to happen. Nevertheless, I was hoping for a few surprises along the way, which never materialized. There's not too much character refinement, either. Russ, always a sharp go-getter, tells us he graduated the head of his class in high school and college, yet it takes him most of the film to figure out that the kid has time-traveled to the future just to teach him to be a better person. Russ thinks all along maybe he's supposed to help the kid out in some way. He's rather a dim go-getter, after all.
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The kid has the funniest lines, incidentally. When Russ can't tell him why the moon sometimes looks orange, Rusty responds, "I knew it. I grow up to be a guy who doesn't know anything!" Then as Rusty is flipping through the buttons on Russ's digital-cable remote, he says, "Ninety-nine channels and there's nothing on." Yeah, times haven't changed much in thirty-two years.
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"The Kid" is a hard film not to like; yet at the same time it's so mawkish, drippy, and manipulative, its' hard to recommend it, either. It is what it is, I guess–a sweet, harmless, family picture with an uplifting moral. I'm sure it's what a lot of folks are looking for.
The Kid (2000)
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Director Jon Turteltaub & Spencer Breslin
- Behind The Scenes Featurette
- Conversations With Jon Turteltaub
- Theatrical Trailer
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