The Kid
(2000)
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Russ Duritz is a success--he has looks, he has money, and he has power. The only things he's missing are friends and a conscience. But when an eight-year-old boy mysteriously keeps popping up in his high-security home, Russ finds things getting strange: The boy turns out to be himself at age eight--Rusty. Once Russ is able to even accept that the boy is who he says he is (with the hilarious help of Dana Ivey as a therapist under pressure and Lily Tomlin as Russ's assistant), he resists being associated with that image of himself yet again: a pudgy "loser" with a speech impediment. His halfhearted attempts to court his assistant, Amy, are accelerated when his younger self decides to take a hand. Russ thinks he's supposed to help his eight-year-old self become less of a geek, but Rusty might be there to teach Russ a thing or two about the things that really matter. Director Jon Turteltaub also produced this nostalgic, shamelessly emotional film, which features cameos by Larry King and Harold Greene. |
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Bruce Willis here returns to The Sixth Sense territory, starring alongside a youngster (Spencer Breslin) in a film that has a tinge of the supernatural about it. Willis plays Russ Duritz, a heartless image consultant in need of redemption. Initially puzzled by the child who seems to be following him, Russ comes to realise that “Rusty” is in fact his younger self. Confronted by the past, the gruff adult has a chance to change his present-day existence for the better. Directed by Jon Turteltaub from a script by Audrey Wells, the story is unalloyed by sentimentality and rings as true as a school bell.