BB
(out of 5)
When a happily married couple learn that they can’t have kids, they decide to adopt one instead. After visiting a local orphanage, a worn-out nun decides to give them a holy terror of a child (Michael Oliver) who has been in and out of foster homes since he was a baby. He’s the kind of kid that has made the old-fashioned types nervous about adoption in the first place, turning the happy couple’s home upside down and terrorizing the neighbours; he evens cuts girls’ braids off! John Ritter is appropriately stupefied as the father and Amy Yasbeck exasperated as the mother. Oliver has great fun tearing up the screen, but it’s a movie in a no-brainer kind of way, but successful enough to inspire the creation of a sequel.
Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment
USA, 1990
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Screenplay by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Cinematography by Peter Lyons Collister
Produced by Robert Simonds
Music by Miles Goodman
Production Design by George Costello
Costume Design by Eileen Kennedy
Film Editing by Tom Finan, Daniel P. Hanley, Mike Hill
