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A 2000 fantasy comedy-drama film starring Bruce Willis as a 40-year-old image consultant who meets his eight-year-old self. The film explores how his past experiences shaped his personality and how he can change his future with his younger self.
Watch the trailer of the 2000 comedy film starring Bruce Willis as a man who meets his childhood self. DISNEY'S THE KID is a magical comedy that's filled with adult-sized laughs.
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A comedy fantasy film about an image consultant who encounters an eight-year-old version of himself and travels back to his childhood. The Kid is a 2000 Disney movie starring Bruce Willis, Spencer Breslin and Emily Mortimer.
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- Comedy, Family, Fantasy
- Jon Turteltaub
- 2000-07-07
Disney's The Kid (2000) View more photos Movie Info Synopsis Bruce Willis stars as Russ Duritz, a successful image consultant whose life is suddenly turned upside down when he magically meets ...
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(often titled as Disney's The Kid) is a 2000 American film, directed by Jon Turteltaub and starring Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin. It co-stars Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride, and Jean Smart.
Russ Duritz works as an image consultant, but he's impolite to people and has had a strained relationship with his father. 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 named Bob Riley. Riley had promised to set aside 5% of the ticket sales to fund a baseball camp for disadvantaged children, but he actually kept the money. So, Russ, has them make a video of some children throwing a pie at Riley, to get him off the hook. Afterward, in a Japanese restaurant, Amy feels that the video is unethical, and Russ throws the tape away at first, but he secretly retrieves it off screen.
When Russ gets home he sees a shadow of a boy, and he immediately calls his secretary to change his house security system. She replies that he is being paranoid and that it could be a neighbor's child. He hears someone inside his house and gets out of bed to investigate when he finds a toy plane with the name Rusty on it on his front step which he assumes had been left there by his father for him. Russ goes back to bed and wakes up hearing noises again. He then walks around the house until he finds the boy and begins a chase through the house. They go to the streets and reach the airport where he sees the boy entering a "Skyway Diner". He tries to catch him there but no one inside has seen the boy. When Russ walks outside looking for the boy, he turns around to look back at the diner, but it has vanished. He thinks he is hallucinating again.
So the next day Russ goes to a psychiatrist and tells her that he only needs five minutes and a powerful medicine to stop his hallucinations. After refusing the whole psychology session he gets his pills and leaves. He turns the television on and watches the news, but after he goes to the kitchen the channel has changed to Ed, Edd n Eddy. He then surprises the boy in his couch eating his popcorn. He asks the boy who he is and what has he come for, to which the boy replies to take his toy plane, but that when he saw the television 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 their birthmarks and figure out that Rusty is none other than Russ as a kid.
Rusty then starts asking Russ things such as if he has a dog named Chester, whom Rusty has dreamed of owning, if he has become a pilot, and if Russ has a wife. Russ replies that he can't handle dogs with his constant traveling, that he is not a pilot but an image consultant, and that has no wife. Rusty tells him that he dislikes his future. The next day, when Amy finds out about the boy, 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 a client's boxing ring and teaches him to fight.
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, though they end up arguing instead. Amy watches Rusty and Russ argue and sees the two fighting, arguing, gesturing the same way, at which she faints. Later, Russ and Amy talk about who will take care of him during his client's wedding and Amy proposes to take him but Russ says he will humiliate him. Rusty falls during the wedding ceremony, and at the reception, he asks Amy to marry him. She thinks it's Russ sending her the message.
•Bruce Willis as Russ Duritz
•Spencer Breslin as Young Rusty
•Emily Mortimer as Amy
•Lily Tomlin as Janet
•Chi McBride as Kenny
•Jean Smart as Deidre Lefever
Jul 7, 2000 · Bruce Willis plays a cold and rude image consultant who meets his 8-year-old self in a diner and learns to change his life. The movie is a comedy-drama with supernatural elements, directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Audrey Wells.
Apr 28, 2022 · "Successful, high-powered Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis) has spent all of his incredibly empty life forgetting the child he used to be – until one day, he meets ...
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