| The Kid | |
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| Directed by | Jon Turteltaub |
| Produced by | Hunt Lowry, Arnold Rifkin, Christina Steinberg, Jon Turteltaub, David Willis |
| Written by | Audrey Wells |
| Starring | Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin, Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride |
| Music by | Marc Shaiman, Jason White |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Editing by | Peter Honess, David Rennie |
| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
| Release date(s) | July 7 2000 |
| Running time | 104 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | USD $65,000,000[1] |
| Gross revenue | USD $110,317,580[1] |
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Disney's The Kid is a movie starring Bruce Willis as Russel Duritz, Spencer Breslin as Rusty Duritz, co-starring Emily Mortimer as Amy, Lily Tomlin as Janet the Secretary, Chi McBride as Kenny (the wedding customer), and Jean Smart as Deirdre Lefever (the woman at the plane).
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Plot
Russel Duritz (Bruce Willis) works as an image consultant. One day, he sees a red plane flying over his head but no one else seems to have seen it. Later, he and his assistant Amy meet a stadium manager and Russ asks him to bring pie and 5 white kids, 3 of dark skin and 4 Latino kids. The stadium manager asks Russ why people get so mad about little things. Russ reminds him that he had promised to set aside 5% of the tickets for disadvantaged kids, Russ adds that if he doesn't do anything soon he would end up in jail. Amy disagrees and makes Russ throw the tape away, which he does at first, only to change his mind and retrieve it. When he gets home he sees a shadow, he immediately calls his secretary to change his house security system, to which she replies he is being paranoid and that it could be a neighbor's child. Russ then walks around the house until he finds the kid and begins a chase through the house. They go to the streets and reach the airport where he sees the kid entering a "Skyway Diner;" he tries to catch him there but no one inside has seen the kid. When he walks outside looking for the kid, turns around to look at the dinner he discovers it's vanished and he thinks he is hallucinating. Russ then goes to a psychologist and tells her that he only needs ten minutes and a powerful medicine to stop his hallucinations. After refusing the whole psychology session he gets his pills and leaves. He goes home and finds a toy plane with the name Rusty on it, one he had once owned, and concludes it was his dad playing a joke on him. He turns the TV on and watches the news, but after he goes to the kitchen the channel has changed to Cartoon Network. He then surprises the kid in his couch eating his popcorn. He asks the kid who he is and what has he come for, to what the kid replies to take his toy plane, but that when he saw the TV and the popcorn he couldn't resist, Russ then asks the boy his name and finds out it's his own. Both begin comparing memories and scars and figure out that Rusty is Russ as a kid. He then starts asking Russ things such as if he has a dog or not, if he has become a pilot and what does he do for a living, to what Russ replies him that he totally can't handle dogs in his house, that he is not a pilot and that he is an image consultant. Rusty tells him that he dislikes his future. The next day when Amy finds out about the kid, she likes him and wants to take him to eat ice cream but Russ makes fun of his weight. Rusty then recalls some bullies bothering him the same way, so Russ brings him to his gym and teaches him to fight in order to take revenge on mean kids. Amy starts wondering about Russ and Rusty's similarities and begins to think they are father and son. After shouting at Russ for hiding such a secret from her, both Russ and Rusty finally decide to tell her the truth, to which she faints. Later, Russ and Amy talk about who will take care of him during his customer's wedding and Amy proposes to take him but Russ says he will humiliate him. He does, as he falls during the wedding ceremony, then he goes and asks Amy to marry him. She thinks it's Russ sending her the message. When she finds out Russ saved the tape, she gets mad at him, tells him he should try to learn more from Rusty and leaves disappointed. Russ finally decides to cancel all of his appointments and spend an afternoon trying to find out why Rusty is there and what he needs to fix from the past. He recalls a fight he will have on his birthday. That makes them go back to 1968. Rusty wins that fight and saves the life of a three-legged dog called Tripod, but then Russ remembers that that wasn't the worst, he remembers that his mother who was sick came to school for him and that when she died his father told him that he was responsible of her death. Russ tells Rusty that his father was nervous because of the huge responsibility of raising a kid alone. They go to the "Skyway Diner" and keep talking about it. Suddenly a dog comes in and goes directly to Rusty. They hear a man call the dog Chester, they both follow him and find out that the red plane is Russ's plane and that they really changed the future and that in 30 years Russ would be a pilot, have a wife (Amy) and a dog named Chester. Then Russ returns to his time, buys tickets to Hawaii for his secretary, and goes to Amy's house with a dog and proposes to her.
Cast
- Bruce Willis as Russ Duritz
- Spencer Breslin as Rusty Duritz
- Emily Mortimer as Amy
- Lily Tomlin as Janet
- Chi McBride as Kenny
- Jean Smart as Deidre Lefever
- Dana Ivey as Dr. Suzanne Alexander
- Brian McGregor as Vince
- Reiley McClendon as Mark
- Brian Tebbits as Herbert
- Brian McLaughlin as George
- Steve Tom as Bruce, Lawyer
- Larry King as Himself
- Jeri Ryan as Herself
- Nick Chinlund as Himself
Awards and Nominations
The Kid was nominated for one Saturn Award, and two Young Artist Awards, receiving only one Young Artist Award:[2]
| Group | Award | Won? |
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| The Saturn Awards (2001) | Best Performance by a Younger Actor Spencer Breslin |
No |
| Young Artist Awards (2001) | Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Under Spencer Breslin |
Yes |
| Best Family Feature Film - Comedy | No |
On TV
On cable, after Disney Channel showed Disney's The Kid only once on Saturday, August 9, 2003 at 8PM/7C, it took 4 years for the film to have its next cable airing. It moved to Hallmark Channel on Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 9PM/8C, and has been aired on Disney Channel's sister station, ABC Family on Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 1:30PM/12:30C. In early 2008, if necessary, Disney Channel, which hasn't aired Disney's The Kid as of 2007, will finally have a 2nd airing of the 2000 film.
References
- ^ a b The Kid (2000). Box Office Mojo. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
- ^ Awards for The Kid (2000). Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-07-07.
