This family-friendly action comedy recycles HOME ALONE gags but replaces child actor Macaulay Culkin with a neurasthenic Chihuahua. Bakery heiress Ethel Jeffries (Shirley Jones) in trouble with the IRS, but continues to sock away all her earnings at home. The eccentric Ethel is raising her orphaned granddaughter, Haley (Brooke Winn), whom she entrusts to a Goth babysitter named Lucretia (Megan A. Oberle) on nights when she plays jazz saxophone with a local band. Ethel decides that a pet might cheer up the depressed Haley and visits an animal pound intending to get a cat; thanks to her severe near-sightedness, Ethel instead picks a Chihuahua. A watchdog — even a ...
Released:
2000
Rated:
PG
Length:
93 mins