Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.
Acting
John Ritter's escalating desperation is physical comedy gold
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI destruction sequences hit harder than they should
Writing
Dark joke density that somehow got PG approval
Director
Dennis Dugan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Richards based his entire performance on one note: 'what if Kramer loved murder?' The studio reportedly hated his improv.
This film crystallized 1990s America's moral panic about 'superpredator' kids while making us laugh at one. The cognitive dissonance is the point.
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