Sadly, the movie does not) with Junior being dumped in an orphanage run by draconian nuns. The reason for the lad's continual relocation becomes apparent when Junior, left at a mansion by his mother, promptly urinates in the face of his wealthy new "foster" mother.
Is shuttled from doorstep to doorstep, steadily working his way down the social ladder. Michael Oliver stars as Junior, an orphan who, as the movie starts, However, PROBLEM CHILD, Hollywood's attempt to re-enact THE BAD SEED for laughs, proved that no mere standup comic or series TV star-cartoon or human-could hope to match the crassness of a major-studio feature. Ed O'Neill won rating points for "Married with Children" by scratching his crotch, Andrew Dice Clay and Roseanne Barr got plenty of media attention for grabbing theirs, and Bart Simpson T-shirts She doesn't care about anything but money and social climbing and seems to have married Ben simply because he's as easily controlled as her pets.When it comes to comedy, 1990 will go down in history as the year of the ill-mannered slob. She is loud, bossy, domineering, and demanding. Flo is a lot like Big Ben - which is probably why Little Ben married her. In other words, he is selling his company rather than giving it to Ben because he knows Ben won't put up a fight.īen's doormat nature is further underscored by his marriage to Flo. He's been working at his father's sporting goods store his entire life, slaving away without a single promotion or so much as a "Bless you" should he sneeze, and sits there with barely an angry retort when his father announces that he's selling his company to the Japanese.īen's father, Big Ben (Jack Warden), even tells him straight-up that he's just too nice. Unlike Junior, he allows people to bully him. He is basically everything a love-deprived boy like Junior needs.īut Ben's problem is that he's a little too nice. He has a big heart and a ton of patience. Ben is the epitome of the stereotypical doormat.
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