Getting Even with Dad

Getting Even with Dad (1994)

Timmy's not getting mad he's...

Con man Ray is going after one last heist – a stash of rare coins – when his estranged son Timmy unexpectedly shows up. Ray is too preoccupied with his robbery to spend time with his son, so Timmy blackmails him into acting like a father, hiding the coins and promises to return them only after Ray takes him to amusement parks and baseball games.

Date of release
1994-06-17
TMDB
5.3 / 10 (223)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
Comedy, Crime, Family
Director
Howard Deutch

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: San Francisco

Getting Even with Dad is a 1994 American comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson. It was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on June 17, 1994 and received negative reviews from critics, but was commercially successful, grossing $53.8 million on a budget of $30 million.

Production

MGM bought the film as a spec script in a bidding war with Hollywood Pictures, Columbia, TriStar, and Paramount with MGM acquiring the script for $500,000.

Macaulay Culkin's character was supposed to have a short haircut in this movie, but Culkin, who had let his hair grow at the time, liked his looks and did not want to cut it. His father, Kit Culkin, demanded his son be allowed to keep his hair the way it was, pointing out that his character was a working-class boy and not a clean-cut, prep school one. He got to keep his long hair.

The theme park featured in the movie was Paramount's Great America located in Santa Clara, California. Ray's apartment in the movie is located at the corner of Jackson and Mason St. in Chinatown, San Francisco. The church featured in the movie is Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church on 666 Filbert Street in San Francisco. The miniature golf course was filmed at Scandia Family Fun Center located in Rohnert Park, California.

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