Accordingly, the film has a dark and violent sense of humour that was tamped down into something more juvenile during principal photography and post-production reshoots, but the emerging cynicism of the early 1990s remains prevalent. Screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski pitched the film as a dark comedy, parodying films such as Mr Mom and Three Men And A Baby, but squarely aiming for an adult audience.Ģ0th Century Fox, Warner Bros, Columbia, and Disney all turned the script down before Universal greenlit it and, for some reason, decided to make it into a more family-friendly films. The premise came from an LA Times article about a married couple suing an adoption agency for not disclosing that their foster son had severe mental health issues and violent tendencies. Pitched somewhere between Dennis The Menace and The Omen, this one winds up being a little dark for a PG comedy, but that’s because it was designed that way. While Flo largely wants the social status of motherhood, it’s Ben who bears the brunt of rituals such as camping trips, birthday parties and baseball games gone horribly, horribly wrong. The latest victims are troubled couple Ben (John Ritter) and Flo (Amy Yasbeck), who endure a catalogue of disasters. He terrorises the nuns who look after him, he writes to the famed Bow-Tie Killer (Michael Richards) as a pen-pal, and he’s gone through more than 30 pairs of adoptive parents. In Problem Child, Junior (Michael Oliver) is a precociously violent 7-year-old living in an orphanage. Looking at it in the 1990s context, though, Scorsese chooses a hit comedy from the previous year whose characters also happen to include an anxious dad contending with a maniac. The choice of family cinema outing frankly says as much about Nick Nolte’s character as Robert De Niro’s raucous laughter does about Cady’s mania. “You’ve adopted Satan.” 1990’s Problem Child lives in infamy as the film that Max Cady enjoyed so loudly while puffing on a noxious cigar in Martin Scorsese’s remake of Cape Fear. From family-friendly films to blockbusters we shouldn’t have been watching, get ready for a monthly dose of nostalgia, as we put down our VHS tapes and find out whether the 90s on Netflix are still Live & Kicking. On Fridays, he flashes back to the golden decade of our childhood. Watch Problem Child online in the UK: Netflix UKĭo you remember the 1990s? Mark does.
She doesn't care about anything but money and social climbing and seems to have married Ben simply because he's as easily controlled as her pets.Cast: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Jack Warden She is loud, bossy, domineering, and demanding. Flo is a lot like Big Ben - which is probably why Little Ben married her. In other words, he is selling his company rather than giving it to Ben because he knows Ben won't put up a fight.īen's doormat nature is further underscored by his marriage to Flo. He's been working at his father's sporting goods store his entire life, slaving away without a single promotion or so much as a "Bless you" should he sneeze, and sits there with barely an angry retort when his father announces that he's selling his company to the Japanese.īen's father, Big Ben (Jack Warden), even tells him straight-up that he's just too nice. Unlike Junior, he allows people to bully him. He is basically everything a love-deprived boy like Junior needs.īut Ben's problem is that he's a little too nice. He has a big heart and a ton of patience. Ben is the epitome of the stereotypical doormat.
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