Junior is rescued after escaping from Beck through a trapeze act, and he calls Ben "Dad" for the first time.īeck drives away, but the Healys are now on his tail. Ben catches up with Beck and Junior at the circus. When his father says Ben ought let Flo and Junior rot, Ben pushes a button that puts Big Ben unknowingly on camera, where he ends up revealing his true nature on the news, even mooning the camera. He also appeals to his father for the ransom money. Now exerting a more assertive attitude, Ben first steals his neighbor's car and hat and drives it all over their yard. Ben, realizing that Junior's behavior was simply a reaction to how he himself was treated by the rather selfish and condescending adults he had been surrounded by most of his young life, undertakes a rescue mission to get Junior back from Beck.
Problem child 1990; roy series#
Through a series of pictures Junior drew, he depicts children and adults who treated him poorly as deformed monsters with hostile surroundings, but depicted Ben as a man in a pleasant background, revealing that he did value him as a father figure. While Ben first sees this as good riddance to his browbeating wife and the trouble-making Junior, he soon notices signs that Junior is not the monster he appeared. Beck kidnaps Flo and Junior by pretending to take them on a family outing, and leaves a ransom note for Ben. Beck then arrives at the house, whom Junior claims as his uncle, and Flo sees this as a chance to be rid of Junior. Ben has finally given up when his financial advisor calls and says his individual retirement account has been seized by his father to pay for the damage. Ben left the keys in the car, and Junior drives Ben's car into Big Ben's sporting goods store. However, upon hearing he was returned thirty times, he decides to keep him and love him, something no one has ever done. Ben is having serious doubts about Junior, and decides to take him back to the orphanage. Finally, Junior displays his effective but unethical method for winning in Little League, which involves hitting rival players in the crotch with a baseball bat after they bullied him. He then terrorizes his neighbors' daughter's birthday party, after Lucy, the snobby birthday girl, bans him from her magic show. He messes up a camping trip with the neighbors by urinating on the campfire, and manipulating a practical joke played on the kids by their father. Junior's bedroom catches fire when he shorts out the clowns in his new bedroom, and Big Ben calls him "The Devil." Junior throws the cat at Big Ben and they both fall down the stairs.
Shortly after Ben and Flo bring Junior to their home, Big Ben visits, and is shocked that they adopted. The film is interspersed with an imprisoned Beck looking to escape and meet up with Junior, whom he miscontrues as a fellow criminal named "J.R."
Problem child 1990; roy serial#
Devilish and incorrigible, the child leaves a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with Martin Beck (Michael Richards), a notorious serial killer.
Ben and his social climbing wife Flo (Amy Yasbeck) have been unable to conceive, and Ben approaches an adoption agent, Igor Peabody (Gilbert Gottfried) with his dilemma, and Igor presents Ben and Flo with a cute 7-year-old boy named Junior (Michael Oliver). He lived in 30 foster homes, and even at a Catholic orphanage.īen Healy (John Ritter) is a pleasant but brow-beaten yuppie working for his father, "Big Ben" (Jack Warden), a very successful tyrannical sporting goods dealer running for mayor. Junior's mother abandoned him after he was born.
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