Disney's The Kid
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Actor: Bruce Willis, Chi McBride, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Spencer BreslinBrand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 104 minutes
Published: 2001-01-01
DVD Release Date: 2001-01-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Product features:
- Russ Doritz (Bruce Willis) is a successful, but unhappy image consultant who magically meets himself as an eight-year-old boy who doesn t like what he sees. With the help of the boy, Russ gets in touch with his childhood dreams. System Requirements: Starring: Bruce Willis, Lily Tomlin, and Emily Mortimor. Directed By: Jon Turteltaub. Running Time: 101 Min., Color. This film is presented
Movie Reviews of Disney's The Kid
Movie Review: A great film for the whole family!
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, here is another gushing review for a Bruce Willis movie (and performance). Seriously, I don't understand why this guy doesn't at least have a few more Golden Globe nominations. I mean, the fact that he has turned out consistently great work for years and has nothing to show for it is rather insulting. This decade alone he has given us `The Whole Nine Yards', `Bandits', `Unbreakable', `Tears of the Sun', `Hostage', `Sin City', `Hart's War' and `The Kid'. You couple that with his incredible work in films like `The Sixth Sense', `The Story of Us', `The Jackal', `Pulp Fiction', `Twelve Monkeys', `Die Hard', `Death Becomes Her' and `In Country' and the Academy should be EMBARRASSED that they have not nominated him ONCE for anything.
I'm not saying that he should have been nominated for `The Kid', but this is yet another consistently spot on performance that he has added to his résumé.
In `The Kid', Bruce plays Russ Duritz, a hard-as-nails image consultant who is obviously guarded and uses sarcasm and a sense of selfishness to protect himself from everyone around him. When a pudgy little kid plops himself in Russ's living room, things start to change. This little kid happens to be Russ (well, Rusty) and for some magical reason he has traveled to the future. Apparently this has been done to remind Russ of all that he has forgotten and hopefully save him before he manages to ruin what's left of his life. As they spend time together though, it is apparent that Rusty needs Russ just as much as Russ needs Rusty.
Insert teary-eyes here.
The film has Disney written all over it, and the saccharine quality is definitely there, but what is remarkable about this film is that it NEVER overdoes it, which could have been so easy to do. Instead, this film has a heart that feels genuine, which is not what I expected and it still takes me by surprise each and every time I watch this. Sure, the ending and the eventual character overhaul is a bit schmaltzy, but he message this film carries is delivered with the right amount of genuine and heartfelt sincerity to make it totally work!
The acting is a total plus here, with beautifully crafted performances by everyone involved. Bruce is witty, charming (in that total jerky kind of way) and suave. Spencer Breslin is cute, awkward and sincere. Emily Mortimer is kind, endearing and alluring. Lily Tomlin is hysterical, sympathetic and memorable. Yes, they all come together to complete one another and deliver a wonderful (family friendly) ride.
I just want to hug this movie.
And for the record, I'd personally nominate Bruce Willis for his performances in `Die Hard', `Pulp Fiction' and `The Jackal'. If I were a member of the Hollywood Foreign Press (who hold the Golden Globes) then I'd have listed him on my ballot for those three films as well as for `Death Becomes Her', `The Whole Nine Yards' and `The Story of Us'. I still consider his performance in `The Sixth Sense' to be his finest to date, but 1999 is such a crowded year (dramatically) and I can't bring myself to knock Norton, Pitt, Spacey, Damon or CROWE off my ballot. If I nominated six then Willis would be on it.
Not like you really cared to know all that.
:-D
Summary of Disney's The Kid
International superstar Bruce Willis (UNBREAKABLE, THE SIXTH SENSE), along with Lily Tomlin (9 TO 5, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI), Emily Mortimer (SCREAM 3, NOTTING HILL), and newcomer Spencer Breslin star in the hilarious and heartwarming comedy DISNEY'S THE KID. Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be -- until one day, he meets him face-to-face! Thinking this kid is a hallucination, Russ does everything he can to make him go away. But 8-year-old Rusty (Breslin), who's anything but happy that he grows up to be a loser without real meaning in his life, can't leave -- at least not yet. At once funny and charming, DISNEY'S THE KID is a magical comedy that's filled with adult-sized laughs.Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) is an ultracynical, 40-year-old L.A. image consultant who fashions bogus façades for scumbag clients. Oblivious to his own need for a makeover, he's a tyrant in the office (to the chagrin of his sarcastic assistant, played to perfection by Lily Tomlin), and he's emotionally unavailable to the morally centered woman (Emily Mortimer) who senses goodness beneath Russ's hardened veneer. Not a moment too soon, a pudgy kid (Spencer Breslin) mysteriously appears in Russ's life, revealing himself to be Rusty Duritz--that is, Russ's 8-year-old self, arriving by some magic to put the adult Russ's life into beneficial perspective. This variation on A Christmas Carol has Rusty guiding Russ on a tour of his past to reveal how he became a loveless, hard-shelled loser. It takes a bit of smarmy chicken-soup psychology to explain it all, but The Kid is an otherwise charming and involving fantasy, suggesting that perhaps we'd all benefit from a bit of counseling by our younger selves. Written with admirable restraint by Audrey Wells (who brought a similar appeal to The Truth About Cats and Dogs) and directed by Jon Turteltaub (Cool Runnings), the movie doesn't force its supernatural elements or attempt to explain Rusty's existence. It's just a fable for our modern age and a reminder to embrace the better angels of our nature. Delivered with an easy blend of humor and sentiment, that message makes The Kid an unexpected pleasure. (Look closely for Matthew Perry as Willis's shaggy-haired client.) --Jeff Shannon
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