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Getting Even with Dad is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Howard Deutch released in USA on 17 june 1994 with Macaulay Culkin
Getting Even with Dad (1994)
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Add to a movie listGetting Even With Dad is a 1994 American comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson.
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Timmy Gleason (Macaulay Culkin) is the estranged son of ex-con Ray Gleason (Ted Danson) and has been living with his aunt Kitty and her fiancee since the death of his mother some years earlier. When Kitty goes on honeymoon, she dumps Timmy on a reluctant Ray, leaving him to look after his son for the next week. Timmy is hoping to spend time with his father, but is largely ignored by Ray, who is the midst of planning a rare coin heist with his two cronies Bobby and Carl (Saul Rubinek and Gailard Sartain). The robbery is successful, but Timmy learns of it and hides the stolen coins from them. He uses it to blackmail Ray into spending time with him, promising that he will return the coins to them afterwards. Thus father and son spend the next few days fishing, playing crazy golf and visiting amusement parks, with Bobby and Carl tagging along.Actors
Macaulay Culkin
(Timmy Gleason)
Ted Danson
(Raymond 'Ray' Gleason)
Glenne Headly
(Detective Theresa Walsh)
Sam McMurray
(Alex Zeronski)
Saul Rubinek
(Robert 'Bobby' Drace)
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