Rent-a-Kid

1995

Action / Comedy / Drama / Family

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 2307 2.3K

Plot summary

Harry Habert, owner of a rental company, has an original idea—to rent baby's from a nearby orphanage to local families. He rents the Ward siblings, 2 boys and a girl, to his first customers.

Director

Fred Gerber Photo
Fred Gerber

Top cast

Leslie Nielsen Photo
Leslie Nielsen as Harry Haber
Christopher Lloyd Photo
Christopher Lloyd as Lawrence 'Larry' Kayvey
Amanda Tapping Photo
Amanda Tapping as Mrs. Nicely
Michael Anderson Jr. Photo
Michael Anderson Jr. as Mr. Nicely
720p.WEB
823.65 MB
900*720
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 29 min
Seeds 13

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rajiuyarveda 6 / 10

Great movie, but horrible DVD

The movie is an interesting fictional story with both happy and sad situations. It's a story of three sibling orphans that get a chance for adoption. One of the kids has a tendency to not always tell the full truth, and the renter parents start out reluctant to believe anything the child says. The renter parents never had kids of their own, and do not have the parental skills to work with a child with this habit. Part way through the movie, the rental parents begin to value a material item over the children. How sad that this analogy often occurs in real life. I remember watching this movie as a youngster, and I would love to watch it again if it ever was shown on TV. I would not recommend purchasing the DVD, as the video quality is unwatchable. It's as if the DVD was a poor transfer from a blurry VHS tape.
Reviewed by Devotchka 6 / 10

Bland but otherwise harmless.

This wasn't a particularly good movie, but it wasn't awful either. Incredibly and sometimes charmingly predictable--like a Leave It to Beaver episode--Rent-a-Kid is neither very interesting nor particularly memorable, but it's pretty harmless. It's typical made-for-TV fare, really, devoid of well-developed characters or relationships, and in the end everybody is a good guy. But it doesn't insult one's intelligence and the kids are fairly cute--unlike the typical obnoxious, irritatingly precocious brats that usually plague this sort of movie. Rent-a-Kid makes for entertainment only if you're really bored, but at least you won't feel worse about the world after having watched it.
Read more IMDb reviews

3 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment