
“He's armed... He's adorable... And he's out of school for the entire summer.”
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Release Date: 6/9/1993
Runtime: 96 minutes
Languages: English
Director: Nick Castle
Budget: $35.0M
Revenue: $117.3M
Companies: Hughes Entertainment
Countries: United States of America
Kamurai
Bad watch, unlikely to watch again, and can't recommend unless you're just dying to see a poor version of "Home Alone" in reverse. I've probably seen this before, but I can't remember it, and I used to read "Dennis the Menace" in the funny papers, can't say I was even that big a fan then. And maybe I'm too much of a grumpy old man myself at this point, but this little brat is borderline evil in his stupid behavior. The old man is a jerk too, but it is largely reactionary. I can't even remember the inevitable heart-warming resolution of the child lying to the old man at the end of the movie right before he does it again. It's like watching a serial killer documentary: this is a sociopathic character, and I'm glad we don't have modern day versions of this, at least not that I can see.

Walter Matthau
Mr. Wilson

Mason Gamble
Dennis Mitchell

Joan Plowright
Martha Wilson

Christopher Lloyd
Switchblade Sam

Lea Thompson
Alice Mitchell

Robert Stanton
Henry Mitchell

Amy Sakasitz
Margaret Wade
Kellen Hathaway
Joey

Paul Winfield
Chief of Police

Natasha Lyonne
Polly

Devin Ratray
Mickey

Hank Johnston
Gunther
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