![]() ![]() So Junior is enough to try the patience of a nun? ''Problem Child'' shows him infuriating nuns at an orphanage, sometimes by calling them penguins. That is the totally unfulfilled concept behind the movie.ĭespite his strange attachment to a killer, Junior is mischievous in the way only derivative screenwriters and directors conditioned by sit-coms could possibly find amusing. We aren't all blessed with Wordsworth's sense of childhood as a romantic idyll, but even hack film makers who think a malevolent orphan is raw comic material might show more imagination than they do in ''Problem Child.'' Junior is a red-haired, freckle-faced 7-year-old, a ringer for Opie on television's ''Andy Griffith Show.'' Imagine what would have happened if Andy and Aunt Bea had abandoned Opie at birth, and the unloved boy had turned into a child who writes fan letters to a famous murderer. ![]()
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