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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 22:26:58 GMT
Anybody remember this one? Kids lock their parents in the basement to keep them from divorcing, and their friends get in on the action and kidnap their parents and toss them down in the basement too. I loved this movie as a kid and it was on TV quite frequently. Oddly enough, I have not seen it on TV for YEARS, and the DVD is out of print, and I can't help wondering WHY it's not shown on TV anymore?
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Post by rateater on Feb 21, 2017 18:28:29 GMT
that's a jennifer tilly/jamie lee curtis/jennifer love hewitt film, right?
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Post by Courwes on Feb 21, 2017 18:35:28 GMT
that's a jennifer tilly/jamie lee curtis/jennifer love hewitt film, right? Yeah thats the one I used to love this movie as well. |
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Post by rmcrae on Feb 22, 2017 3:55:18 GMT
I remember it too. I saw it a few times on the Disney Channel back in the late 90's/early 00's. Strange that it's out of print.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 22, 2017 4:17:29 GMT
I remember it too. I saw it a few times on the Disney Channel back in the late 90's/early 00's. Strange that it's out of print. Stranger still that it's never on TV anymore. I get that since ABC Family became Free Form they haven't been as family oriented, but even before the change that would've been the best channel to show it on and if they have, it's been years, and I don't get why. |
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Post by number1212 on Feb 25, 2017 6:35:48 GMT
I remember coming on the Disney Channel quite a bit. I am neutral to it. The only specific thing I remember is a part when the parents were watching the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare". I had just seen the cartoon myself.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 25, 2017 6:45:02 GMT
I remember coming on the Disney Channel quite a bit. I am neutral to it. The only specific thing I remember is a part when the parents were watching the Bugs Bunny cartoon "Falling Hare". I had just seen the cartoon myself. I had that cartoon on a tape of 50 classic cartoons, Superman, Popeye, Lulu, Betty Boop, the 3 Stooges, Daffy, Bugs, etc., and there were a few Bugs Bunny cartoons, but that really grabbed my attention that it was the same one from my tape, I thought that was so neat. |
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Post by PreachCaleb on Mar 1, 2017 16:16:23 GMT
I'd catch it every time it was on tv. HBO, TBS, whatever.
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Post by JHA Durant on Mar 2, 2017 5:00:57 GMT
I've only seen it once, but I've never forgotten it.
Pretty decent film too.
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 2, 2017 6:37:18 GMT
I'd catch it every time it was on tv. HBO, TBS, whatever. Me too, our video store had a copy but we NEVER rented it because it was always on TV. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 12:14:58 GMT
Anybody remember this one? Kids lock their parents in the basement to keep them from divorcing, and their friends get in on the action and kidnap their parents and toss them down in the basement too. I loved this movie as a kid and it was on TV quite frequently. Oddly enough, I have not seen it on TV for YEARS, and the DVD is out of print, and I can't help wondering WHY it's not shown on TV anymore? I used to LOVE that movie. When I was a kid, we had HBO (I grew up in the 1990s). So I used to watch "House Arrest" and "The Paper Brigade" over and over. That same kid was in both. I think his name was Grover in House Arrest. So I thought he was a bigger star than he actually was (when I was a kid). I would go to school and talk about these films, and kids would look at me like "dafuq?" lol, but yes. I think this film was underrated. It's a genre that has nearly died. A TRUE Family Film. Not a 'kiddie' live action film, and not an adult/family drama. It had Jaime Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak (from Grumpy Old Men), Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald and more. So there were "A" list actors from the mid-1990s coupled with fairly unknown kids. That what you used to do, put famous actors/actresses with unknown kids to give them a shot at stardom. It worked for Jennifer Love Hewitt. Nowadays it seems most 'kid' films are too kiddie. |
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Post by novastar6 on Mar 7, 2017 14:00:57 GMT
Anybody remember this one? Kids lock their parents in the basement to keep them from divorcing, and their friends get in on the action and kidnap their parents and toss them down in the basement too. I loved this movie as a kid and it was on TV quite frequently. Oddly enough, I have not seen it on TV for YEARS, and the DVD is out of print, and I can't help wondering WHY it's not shown on TV anymore? I used to LOVE that movie. When I was a kid, we had HBO (I grew up in the 1990s). So I used to watch "House Arrest" and "The Paper Brigade" over and over. That same kid was in both. I think his name was Grover in House Arrest. So I thought he was a bigger star than he actually was (when I was a kid). I would go to school and talk about these films, and kids would look at me like "dafuq?" lol, but yes. I think this film was underrated. It's a genre that has nearly died. A TRUE Family Film. Not a 'kiddie' live action film, and not an adult/family drama. It had Jaime Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak (from Grumpy Old Men), Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald and more. So there were "A" list actors from the mid-1990s coupled with fairly unknown kids. That what you used to do, put famous actors/actresses with unknown kids to give them a shot at stardom. It worked for Jennifer Love Hewitt. Nowadays it seems most 'kid' films are too kiddie. I'm not sure what the connection is but I will still swear that it all changed after 9/11, 90's family movies were great, 00's family movies went downhill very fast and started to suck. Somehow I'm convinced it's all connected, Penny Marshall said the reason she quit making movies after 9/11 is they stopped being about heart, Ray Bradbury said after 9/11 Hollywood promised to make more family films, but it only got worse. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 14:07:24 GMT
I used to LOVE that movie. When I was a kid, we had HBO (I grew up in the 1990s). So I used to watch "House Arrest" and "The Paper Brigade" over and over. That same kid was in both. I think his name was Grover in House Arrest. So I thought he was a bigger star than he actually was (when I was a kid). I would go to school and talk about these films, and kids would look at me like "dafuq?" lol, but yes. I think this film was underrated. It's a genre that has nearly died. A TRUE Family Film. Not a 'kiddie' live action film, and not an adult/family drama. It had Jaime Lee Curtis, Kevin Pollak (from Grumpy Old Men), Jennifer Tilly, Christopher McDonald and more. So there were "A" list actors from the mid-1990s coupled with fairly unknown kids. That what you used to do, put famous actors/actresses with unknown kids to give them a shot at stardom. It worked for Jennifer Love Hewitt. Nowadays it seems most 'kid' films are too kiddie. I'm not sure what the connection is but I will still swear that it all changed after 9/11, 90's family movies were great, 00's family movies went downhill very fast and started to suck. Somehow I'm convinced it's all connected, Penny Marshall said the reason she quit making movies after 9/11 is they stopped being about heart, Ray Bradbury said after 9/11 Hollywood promised to make more family films, but it only got worse. Penny Marshall made "Big" I love that movie. We need more films like that with 'heart' |
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