Getting Even with Dad

1994

Action / Comedy / Crime / Family

14
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 25% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 25% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 9301 9.3K

blackmail con man heist father son relationship heist comedy crime comedy

Plot summary

Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with his robbery to spend time with his son, so Timmy blackmails him into acting like a father, hiding the coins and promises to return them only after Ray takes him to amusement parks and baseball games.

Director

Howard Deutch Photo
Howard Deutch

Top cast

Macaulay Culkin Photo
Macaulay Culkin as Timmy
David Kagen Photo
David Kagen as Little League Coach
Sam Horrigan Photo
Sam Horrigan as Boy on Subway
Howard Deutch Photo
Howard Deutch as Driver #1
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1000.09 MB
1280*688
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 4
1.81 GB
1904*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lisafordeay 6 / 10

Criminally underrated 90s flick

Reviewed by kelboy10 6 / 10

Sometimes they assume too much!

Getting Even With Dad is more of a nostalgia moment for me than anything else. What is interesting to see is how the film still has an emotional impact on me today. This isn't anything to fancy with regards to the scriptwriting or even the cinematography. This relies purely on the character development and acting of our main cast. Macaulay Culkin was such a big star at the time yet this one flopped a little on its release. Suddenly the audience had got bored of Culkin and he wasn't so cute anymore. However I believe Culkin plays a reasonably good part in this movie alongside Ted Danson.The basic theme of the movie is blackmail, Culkin finds no other way to reason with his father on pulling off a coin heist, in which he sees it ending only one way. Alongside Danson and Culkin we have some great supporting characters, Rays (Ted Danson) two cronies Bobby and Carl played by Saul Rubinek and Gailard Sartain. Saul Rubinek adds some humour to what is mostly perceived as an emotional drama from my perspective. Where Getting Even with Dad struggles is sometimes in the pacing and also not fully sure of what it wants to be. It crosses genre without really settling on something concrete, this isn't a bad thing it just means it comes across of being not fully aware of the message it's trying to convey.If you just watch this is a lighthearted mood and accept it for what it is you'll enjoy it yet if you are looking for something with a little more depth and meaning then you'll probably find you are on the side of the disappointed.
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