Problem Child

Problem Child is a 1990 cult comedy favorite and is as low brow as they come. The first effort of venerated screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski (Ed Wood, Man on the Moon, The People vs. Larry Flynt, 1408), this toilet humor gem revolves around adorable little bow tied Junior (Michael Oliver), who was fobbed off on unlucky family after unlucky family for his unruly behavior, until society could take it no more and doomed him to live in orphanage. But when even the Penguins' patience runs out, the orphanage decides to take drastic measures and unload their burden on the first poor sucker to rear his head looking to adopt a child, post haste. Their prayers are answered when said sucker shows up in the form of terminally cheery Ben Healy (John Ritter, Three's Company) and his wife Flo (Amy Yasbeck, Wings, The Mask). Determined to love the boy no matter what, Healy soon has to wrestle with not only his new son's whirlwind wildness, but the boy's idol: the notorious Bow Tie Killer (Michael Richards, Seinfeld's Kramer), who has busted out of jail to meet the boy for a crime spree! MORE