Disney's The Kid

The Kid (marketed as Disney's The Kid) is a 2000 American fantasy comedy-drama film, directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Audrey Wells. It stars Bruce Willis and Spencer Breslin, with Emily Mortimer, Lily Tomlin, Chi McBride, and Jean Smart playing smaller roles.

The film was released by Walt Disney Pictures on July 7, 2000 in the United States and received mixed reviews from critics.

Plot

Russ Duritz works as an image consultant, but he is impolite to people and has a strained relationship with his father. One of his clients is a stadium manager who is reneging on a previous promise to fund a baseball camp for disadvantaged children. When Russ makes a pie throwing video to fabricate an explanation, his coworker Amy urges him to reconsider.

When Russ returns home to find a toy plane on his porch, he assumes it is a gift from his father. However, inside he sees a strange agitated boy and chases him through the streets. After seeing the boy enter Skyway Diner, Russ walks in and finds no sign of him. Believing the experience to be a hallucination, Russ goes to a psychiatrist appointment the next day, but finds the same boy on his couch eating popcorn afterwards. The boy says that his name is Rusty and that he was originally searching for his toy plane. Starting to see a resemblance, Russ begins comparing memories and birthmarks with Rusty, and figures out that the boy is actually Russ as a kid. After a series of questions, Rusty tells Russ that he dislikes his future.

The Kid (1999 film)

The Kid (1999) is a Hong Kong movie starring Leslie Cheung. It also co-stars Yip Tuen Nam, Ti Lung, and Carrie Ng.

Synopsis

This drama highlights the social problems of single parents struggling to raise children. Leslie Cheung plays the role of a retired fund-manager, Wing who lost his entire fortune in a financial mishap and was severely depressed until he discovered an abandoned baby boy in his yacht which he has not sold off at that time. He sought to raise the baby as his own son, encountering many happy moments even though he was not financially sound. His happiness is cruelly cut short a few years later as the now toddler's real mother returns and wishes to raise her own son again, while he attempts to prevent this as he loved his adopted son very much. The final touching scene depicts the inevitable as his beloved adopted son followed his mother into her luxury car while Wing fought back tears despite him voluntarily relenting into allowing the child to leave.

Cast and roles

The kid (Blood Meridian)

The kid is a nameless central character in the 1985 historical novel Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy. The first sentence of the novel opens with "see the child", which tells the reader the significance of this character. These words also serve to advise the reader of the dissimilar nature of the kid in relation to Judge Holden and the members of Glanton's gang. When viewing the novel as a bildungsroman the story follows the maturation of the kid who had developed distinct values just before the end of the book.

He is the focal point for the first six chapters where he leaves Tennessee, rides with the filibusters, and is jailed in Chihuahua City. There he meets Toadvine for the second time, eyes the judge for the second time, and joins Glanton's gang. However in chapters seven through nineteen the focus is no longer exclusively on the kid. In this section of the book he disappears from the action and then reappears. The final chapters again focus on the kid.

Unlike the judge, the kid's physical description is sparse and bereft of details. All that is known is that he is "pale and thin", but he does have "big wrists, and big hands". In contrast to his outwardly violent lifestyle, his eyes are "oddly innocent". The kid's interior life is not explicitly expressed throughout the novel, and when he speaks it is very brief.

The Kid

The Kid or The Kids may refer to:

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Film