The Kid (2000)
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
Powerful businessman Russ Duritz is self-absorbed and immersed in his work. But by the magic of the moon, he meets Rusty, a chubby, charming 8-year-old version of himself who can't believe he could turn out so badly – with no life and no dog. With Rusty's help, Russ is able to reconcile the person he used to dream of being with the man he's actually become.
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There are definitely remnants of old school Disney flicks here, but like the studio's update of its own "The Parent Trap" in 1998, this movie knows how to play sweet without insulting the intelligence of toady's more worldly family audiences -- thanks in large part to the Welles clever writing.
But for all the hoopla, Bruckheimer, screenwriters Cormac and Marianne Wibberley ("Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle") and director Jon Turteltaub ("The Kid") don't present anything much more intricate than a riddle from a Nancy Drew mystery -- supposedly contained in one of the letters written by Benjamin Franklin under the name Silence Dogood.
As Frances, a San Francisco writer whose husband leaves her but keeps her house, Lane is similarly unafraid to go puffy-eyed and red-nosed with sadness, though thatâs as humanly messy as writer-director Audrey Wells (Guinevere, The Kid) cares to get, with both Lane and her film.
This character so frighteningly shows up when we don’t want her to that a colleague of mine swore she was going to turn out to be some kind of eminent doppelganger for Frances, which wouldn’t have been too surprising considering that Wells is also responsible for Bruce Willis’ The Kid, where an adult male came face-to-face with his child self.
Director Audrey Wells who penned such pleasing fare as the recent critical failure “Raising Helen” and the just awful “The Kid” creates a fun, light and very airy film that won’t depress even at its more heavy moments.