Dennis the Menace

Watch: Dennis the Menace

6/25/19931h 34m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ He's armed... He's adorable... And he's out of school for the entire summer. ~

Overview:

Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.

Director:

Nick Castle

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$35,000,000.00

Revenue:

$117,270,765.00

Key words:

babysitter
based on comic
slingshot

Cast

Walter Matthau

~ as ~

George Wilson

Mason Gamble

~ as ~

Dennis Mitchell

Joan Plowright

~ as ~

Martha Wilson

Christopher Lloyd

~ as ~

Switchblade Sam

Lea Thompson

~ as ~

Alice Mitchell

Robert Stanton

~ as ~

Henry Mitchell

Amy Sakasitz

~ as ~

Margaret Wade

Kellen Hathaway

~ as ~

Joey

Paul Winfield

~ as ~

Chief of Police

Natasha Lyonne

~ as ~

Polly

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Reviews (1)

Kamurai
Written 4 year(s) ago
4
Bad watch, unlikely to watch again, and can't recommend unless you're just dying to see a poor version of "Home Alone" in reverse.

I've probably seen this before, but I can't remember it, and I used to read "Dennis the Menace" in the funny papers, can't say I was even that big a fan then.

And maybe I'm too much of a grumpy old man myself at this point, but this little brat is borderline evil in his stupid behavior. The old man is a jerk too, but it is largely reactionary.

I can't even remember the inevitable heart-warming resolution of the child lying to the old man at the end of the movie right before he does it again. It's like watching a serial killer documentary: this is a sociopathic character, and I'm glad we don't have modern day versions of this, at least not that I can see.