A smug comedy about a precocious child who teaches his deadbeat dad about the true meaning of family, GETTING EVEN WITH DAD is only occasionally funny and commits every sin in the sitcom lexicon.
Ray Gleason (Ted Danson) is a lovable loser, a small time crook working at a cake shop and plotting the one last score that will let him retire from a life of crime and open his own bakery. With his bumbling partners Bobby (Saul Rubinek) and Carl (Gailard Sartain), he plans to steal a fortune in
gold coins, a scheme that's disrupted when Ray's neglected 10-year-old, Timmy (Macaulay Culkin), is unceremoniously dumped on his doorstep on the very day of the heist. Ray tr...
Released:
1994
Rated:
PG
Length:
110 mins