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. Cast: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Amy Yasbeck, Michael Richards, Jack Warden
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