The premise came from an LA Times article about a married couple suing an adoption agency for not disclosing that their foster son had severe mental health issues and violent tendencies. Pitched somewhere between Dennis The Menace and The Omen, this one winds up being a little dark for a PG comedy, but that’s because it was designed that way. While Flo largely wants the social status of motherhood, it’s Ben who bears the brunt of rituals such as camping trips, birthday parties and baseball games gone horribly, horribly wrong. The latest victims are troubled couple Ben (John Ritter) and Flo (Amy Yasbeck), who endure a catalogue of disasters. He terrorises the nuns who look after him, he writes to the famed Bow-Tie Killer (Michael Richards) as a pen-pal, and he’s gone through more than 30 pairs of adoptive parents. In Problem Child, Junior (Michael Oliver) is a precociously violent 7-year-old living in an orphanage. Looking at it in the 1990s context, though, Scorsese chooses a hit comedy from the previous year whose characters also happen to include an anxious dad contending with a maniac. The choice of family cinema outing frankly says as much about Nick Nolte’s character as Robert De Niro’s raucous laughter does about Cady’s mania. “You’ve adopted Satan.” 1990’s Problem Child lives in infamy as the film that Max Cady enjoyed so loudly while puffing on a noxious cigar in Martin Scorsese’s remake of Cape Fear. From family-friendly films to blockbusters we shouldn’t have been watching, get ready for a monthly dose of nostalgia, as we put down our VHS tapes and find out whether the 90s on Netflix are still Live & Kicking. On Fridays, he flashes back to the golden decade of our childhood. Watch Problem Child online in the UK: Netflix UKĭo you remember the 1990s? Mark does. A scene where the bearded lady tells Martin he called her his little kumquat.Cast: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Jack Warden When the nun notices Ben pushing and knocking people out of the way, Mother Superior replies, "Darn,that kid works fast!" A little girl asks Mother Superior, who obviously took the children on a field trip there, if that was the man who adopted Junior. When Ben races through the circus to deliver the ransom money. After Ben looks at the picture Junior made for him, Martin calls Ben and tells him he has a half-hour to come up with $100,000 for the ransom, as a way to see Junior and Flo again, followed by Martin telling Junior he's not planning to hurt Ben once he arrives with the money. A long sequence has Junior terrorizing the milkman and the paperboy with a remote-controlled airplane, with Ben ending up getting the brunt of the abuse. He then gets his foot caught in the paint-filled cake pan as Junior starts laughing hysterically. Ben then reminds him that he's not alone anymore and that he has got a friend(Ben) to talk to. Junior protests that he is only pretending to be his friend and that no one cares about him but himself. Ben goes out to the porch to tell Junior that he is laying down the law for his bad behavior until he notices a picture Junior painted consisting of Ben knocking out Roy with the frying pan. A short dialogue scene has Roy and his family loading up their Jeep for the camping trip with Roy telling Ben to hurry up. He is then shown walking to the electric chair, but manages to force the warden into it. During Martin Beck's psychological examination (once the doctor has escorted the warden out of the room), he has a flashback about how he thinks he was blamed for a crime that somebody else did and is shown in his prison cell listening to the chaplain's final words to him, as well as a guard giving Martin a yellow bow tie-shaped cake. A scene of Junior talking to the Mother Supirior as he is packing. Peabody's adoption office has him, Ben and Flo arguing about how their child should look. Brutus Orphanage has an adoption service and has recommended him, but Ben tells him that Flo won't accept anyone else's child, causing the priest to disgustedly end their session. Once at church, Ben confesses to the priest in the pulpit that he and Flo want to have a child, so the minister tells him that the St. Though he objects to it, Flo reminds him that she doesn't want to be excluded from the social parties Mrs. When Ben and Flo get ready to go to church, their mean neighbor Mrs.Perkins tells them that their cat defecated in her tulips and orders Ben to clean it up. When originally shown on network television, deleted scenes were added to pad out the running time and for content.