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Cast: John Ritter Jack Warden Michael Oliver Gilbert Gottfried Michael Richards

Genres: Comedy

Director: Dennis Dugan

Release Date: Jul 27, 1990

Ben Healy and his social climbing wife Flo adopt fun-loving seven year old Junior. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares.

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Problem Child (1990) - IMDb

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1h 21m

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5. 4/10

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A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.A young boy is just short of a monster. He is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.

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Director
- Dennis Dugan
Writers
- Scott Alexander
- Larry Karaszewski
Stars
- Michael Oliver
- John Ritter
- Jack Warden

Director
- Dennis Dugan
Writers
- Scott Alexander
- Larry Karaszewski
Stars
- Michael Oliver
- John Ritter
- Jack Warden

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Awards
- 1 nomination

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Michael Oliver

Junior Healy

John Ritter

Ben Healy

Jack Warden

Big Ben Healy

Gilbert Gottfried

Igor Peabody

Amy Yasbeck

Flo Healy

Michael Richards

Martin Beck

Peter Jurasik

Charlotte Akin

Lorraine

Anna Marie Allred

Kid #3

Adam Anderly

Catcher

Robert A. Anderson

Boy in Chair

Cody Beard

2nd Baseman

Jordan Burton

Kid #1

Eli Cummins

Umpire

John S. Davies

Paramedic

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- Dennis Dugan
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- Scott Alexander
- Larry Karaszewski
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Junior: Hey, Martin! Let's go see the bearded lady.
Martin: No, I've seen too many of them in prison.

Alternate versions
When originally shown on network television, deleted scenes were added to pad out the running time and for content. The following is a list of said scenes.
- 1. 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. Though he objects to it, Flo reminds him that she doesn't want to be excluded from the social parties Mrs. Perkins throws.
- 2. 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. 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.
- 3. An extended dialogue scene at Mr. Peabody's adoption office has him, Ben and Flo arguing about how their child should look.
- 4. A scene of Junior talking to the Mother Supirior as he is packing.
- 5. 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. He is then shown walking to the electric chair, but manages to force the warden into it.
- 6. A short dialogue scene has Roy and his family loading up their Jeep for the camping trip with Roy telling Ben to hurry up.
- 7. 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. Junior protests that he is only pretending to be his friend and that no one cares about him but himself. Ben then reminds him that he's not alone anymore and that he has got a friend(Ben) to talk to. He then gets his foot caught in the paint-filled cake pan as Junior starts laughing hysterically.
- 8. 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.
- 9. 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.
- 10. When Ben races through the circus to deliver the ransom money. 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 the nun notices Ben pushing and knocking people out of the way, Mother Superior replies, "Darn,that kid works fast!"
- 11. A scene where the bearded lady tells Martin he called her his little kumquat.

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Brainless, Unpleasant Characters, but also Very Funny

The seven-year-old orphan Junior (Michael Oliver) has been rejected thirty times by his foster parents since he was a baby because he is wicked. He worships the criminal Martin Beck (Michael Richards) and wears a a bow tie just like his idol. Ben (John Ritter) is a good affectionate man that dreams on being a father. However his flashy wife Flo (Amy Yasbeck) is infertile and he convinces her to adopt a child. The couple is lured by Mr. Peabody (Gilbert Gottfried) that manages an orphanage and they adopt the little devil Junior. When Ben's father Big Ben (Jack Warden) meets the boy, he immediately tells that Junior is evil. Soon Ben learns that his father is correct; will he call off the adoption?

"Problem Child" is a brainless film with unpleasant characters. Ben and the psychologist are dorks; Junior and Martin Beck are mean; Big Ben is selfish and Flo is ambitious and unfaithful. The situations are politically incorrect bu also very funny. If the viewer shutdown his or her brain, he or she will find a hilarious movie and laugh a lot. The best scene is the interview of the psychologist with the psychopath criminal. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "O Pestinha" ("The Little Devil")

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Release date
- July 27, 1990 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- So ein Satansbraten
Filming locations
- South Crowdus Street & Commerce Street, Dallas, Texas, USA
Production companies
- Universal Pictures
- Imagine Entertainment
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Box office

Budget
- $11,000,000 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
- $53,470,891
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,026,900
- Jul 29, 1990
Gross worldwide
- $72,270,891

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Runtime
1 hour 21 minutes
Color
Aspect ratio
- 1. 85 : 1

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What to do with unruly children - illuminating blog

Author: Marina Komissarova, psychologist

Very often in parent-child communities there are questions about what to do with unruly and completely naughty children. Nothing affects them at all. Many parents are faced with teenage uncontrollability, with the inability to influence a child of 13-17 years old. He doesn't listen to anything. And finally, there are adults who are completely uncontrollable (from the side of society). They are most often referred to as criminals, but this is also an interesting problem.

All three problems are connected from the point of view of psychophysiology. All these are different degrees of the same thing. It's just that difficult children do not always become difficult teenagers, and even less often turn into delinquents. Most safely pass such a period in childhood or puberty, and in adulthood become reasonable and prosperous citizens. However, not all. Sometimes there are people who were quite obedient in childhood or even in adolescence, and then turned into uncontrollable. It rarely happens, but it does happen.

What is it?

First of all, it is too high a threshold of frustration. It is best for parents of difficult children to understand this topic so as not to fight disobedience in various wild and harmful (that is, aggravating the problem) ways, like a belt. It is all the more stupid to punish teenagers (depriving them of walks and taking away gadgets).

For an ordinary child in a difficult period, this is just insulting and creates discord with the parent (and the desire to hide more from him and run away from home early).

And for a really difficult one, it raises the frustration threshold even more, hardens, turns on and makes the parent a target for struggle.

Frustration threshold is a difficult topic for non-specialists. I'll try to explain as simply as possible. Children are born different, each with its own peculiar nervous organization. Children become even more different when a unique developmental experience is added to the nervous organization.

Once an excellent scientist Lev Gumilyov investigated the problem of passionarity (and passionarity in many cases is just such a complete uncontrollability and insubordination) and came to the conclusion that passionarity probably depends on special solar flares. Among social factors, Gumilyov singled out such a factor as the intersection of ethnic groups, not so much different genes, but radically different cultures.

Modern research tends to the same point of view. Mutations, genetic features, and a special social environment, in which there is a gap between moral meanings, are involved in the appearance of such a nervous organization.

In itself, Gumilyov considered passionarity to be a very important and necessary phenomenon for mankind, but he noted that if it was misdirected and used, it could turn into disaster. A pronounced passionary does not stop at any obstacles, any obstacle only stimulates him more to be active and to strive for a goal. Even if the goal is good, such a person can be dangerous (especially since the good is relative). What if the goal is not the common good? It is terrible to imagine what such a monster is capable of, obsessed with the idea of remaking the world according to his plan. And why pretend? You can read history.

Gumilev also singled out as a separate type - subpassionaries (people whose energy is directed to self-destruction, self-destruction) and harmonious (people who live normally, calmly and fit well into the social framework). All this is rather conditional. There may be a harmonious person with the features of a passionary or, conversely, a subpassionary, and sometimes at different periods of life.

From the point of view of psychophysiology, subpassionaries can be attributed to people with a very low frustration threshold, harmonious people - to those whose frustration threshold is normal, but passionaries are people with a very high, sometimes abnormally high frustration threshold.

The concept of frustration is misunderstood by many, even by some psychologists.

Frustration is not aggression that occurs when a person's needs collide with an obstacle. No. Aggression is just one of the forms of reaction to frustration, moreover, Kurt Lewin considered frustration accompanied by aggression to be incomplete. Because aggression is an additional energy that is released in an attempt to overcome an obstacle. You ran into a barrier and in a rage tried to break it. You are not completely frustrated because you are still trying to keep moving towards the goal, albeit in such a destructive way.

Real frustration is when a person stops moving when faced with an obstacle, gives up, cannot direct the same energy to anything constructive. He simply suppresses it, extinguishes or directs aggression inward.

An ordinary person, whose strong need is faced with an obstacle, first tries to overcome this obstacle, then looks for workarounds, and realizing that the obstacle is insurmountable, part of the need frustrates (extinguishes), and part tries to redirect somewhere (does not frustrate). This is a socially adequate being. Ideally, a small part should be extinguished, and a large part should be redirected. This is a well-adapted and stress-resistant personality.

A pronounced passionary is a person whose need knows no barriers at all. He will never give up on his goal. He will either die or head-butt the barrier (and yes, most do die, of course). In extreme cases, he will come up with a way to get around this wall, but not in a roundabout way and will not wait long, because he is seething with passion. Passionarity is a strong passion (passion = passion).

Do you understand what the frustration threshold is? This is such a conditional threshold, which depends on the qualities of the psyche and personality, having reached which a person believes that the barrier is too great and it is pointless to spend his energy further.

A normal person sees objective “no”, “impossible”, “it will cost too much” and retreats. Passionary begins to rush forward with a vengeance. Yes, barriers only turn on a real passionary. If a person's frustration threshold is very, very high, there is no such barrier that he would consider impassable for himself.

From the point of view of psychophysiology, this is a pathology, since such people are rather poorly adapted to life in the environment, and even more so in society, they often die. However, if we do not take extremes, that is, we do not consider the prohibitively high threshold of frustration, but simply consider it elevated, then we see a very purposeful person, perhaps a hero, and possibly a criminal, but the personality is quite strong (until she was physically broken or killed) .

Frustration threshold too low - same pathology. Such a person gives in from any difficulty, he is ready to accept any external rule as a law and will not try to circumvent it, and, having met any resistance on the way, will immediately give in. The norm is always in the middle, but the peculiarity of people lies in the fact that some normal people have a lower frustration threshold, some have an increased one, and all of them need (and can) learn to live happily.

Now imagine a small child. Your difficult and completely unmanageable.

He is physiologically made differently than his peers with whom you compare him. What's the point of beating him up? If it is from helplessness and anger, okay (better drink a sedative), but if this is a conscious method of education, then you are fools, not parents.

The majority of uncontrollable children, bypassing the crisis of 3 years of age (after approximately 4 years), become completely controllable. But (!) If the parents had not already ruined their relationship with them, while they were beating and tormenting them during the three-year crisis. During this time, you can become the enemy of the child, especially if you have a real passionary.

What is the difference between an unruly child and an obedient and quiet one?

Obedient is more sensitive, emotionally responsive, impressionable, anxious, so his frustration threshold is much lower. Mom just looked sadly, shook her head, and his desire to climb over there on that high shelf disappeared.

The external “no” became a sufficient barrier, because his frustration threshold is very low, almost any barrier is enough for him to retreat.

You see that a child who is too obedient is also not very good, right? Any external “no” immediately becomes his internal law, he is suggestible, he is completely controllable. Everything is good in moderation.

What is a very naughty child? Oh, he can't hear you at all. To him, your op is just noise, like the sound of the sea. His excitement from desire (nervous, physiological, his psyche is so arranged) is so strong that you can even kill yourself, but he will climb where he has planned. If the frustration threshold is very high, you can beat him with mortal combat, he will cry, but still climb. No suffering will stop him, because fear is nothing compared to his need. I repeat again, most likely (9out of 10) he will outgrow this period, become adequate, but so far he is. Just accept this fact, for starters.

You think in vain that an obedient child is more reasonable and good, his need simply does not have such an energy force. He's not that passionate.

His need is weaker, it is easily removed by prohibition. And your terrible child has strong and powerful desires. He is a typhoon. Here's the one you got.

What do parents do when they beat and punish such children? They can turn them from possible heroes into possible criminals. Yes, let's not be afraid of big words, it's something like this happens. Not always, fortunately, but often.

What is the difference between a hero and a criminal? The first wants to do something for the benefit of society, the second is anti-social and wants to rob others. The second can be considered a psychopath, and passionaries who were beaten in childhood often turn into psychopaths. Imagine for yourself, their need has incredible energy power, they cannot cope with it, there are no mental reserves. And on the part of society (which is personified by parents and teachers), beatings and punishments come all the time. What is left for the children? Firstly, learn to lie and pretend (for self-defense), and secondly, to hate society as the main enemy, looking for means of struggle and revenge. (This must be understood not for the sake of justifying criminals, but for the sake of reducing their number).

The percentage of true passionaries is very small. Great heroes and true villains are rare.

Most unruly children will later normalize their frustration threshold and become perfectly normal and law-abiding citizens.

But during the periods of their riots, it is not necessary to spoil relations with them and turn them against yourself and society, making life difficult for yourself and social adaptation for them.

And what can be done, I'll tell you now.

Now I can’t say what to do with children with a real conduct disorder (who even at 8-10 years old destroy everything, behave aggressively and do not respect the minimum rules) and how to correct adolescent psychopaths, this is too difficult a problem (although interesting and a lot of research and experimentation is underway). But I can tell you what to do with young children with a high threshold of frustration, those who do not want to obey, are very stubborn, insist on their own, lie (because they are punished) and violate all prohibitions.

It is very difficult or impossible to frustrate their energy, sometimes it is easier for them to break all the bones than to prohibit them from wanting something and climbing somewhere. But their energy can be redirected by suggesting another goal or several goals. And this is the ONLY way. Do you understand? It is almost impossible to ban, stop, intimidate, prove.

You can redirect your attention. This is the only option. And it is better to occupy their attention BEFORE they choose a destructive goal for themselves, otherwise it will be difficult to distract.

Get their attention in advance. There will be a wasteland, they will fill it themselves and in a way that you will not like it.

Parents should understand very well that the main enemy of such children is BOREDOM.

Out of boredom, such children are ready not only to violate parental prohibitions, but to jump out the window and this is not a joke. Understand that people's minds are different. And the unformed children's psyche is especially bizarre. Anxious children tolerate boredom much better, but such children cannot at all, boredom kills them and blows their minds. They experience a real torment, the strongest torment of hell, when you make them just sit or do something boring, useful, but uninteresting. They need emotions, they are emotional gluttons from birth. They will grow up and learn self-regulation, but for now it is very difficult for them to live in your boring adult world.

Here is the experience of a father who turned out to be so attentive and smart that he immediately realized that the scourge of his difficult child (which all nannies, kindergartens, and even the mother agreed to refuse) was boredom. He becomes very aggressive out of boredom (and there is most likely a genetic feature, because his father is the same), and in an interesting game - he is very adequate, quick-witted, responsive, a normal child.

Never put such children in a corner, do not punish them with boredom and sitting on a chair, do not act like stupid monsters, they can't stand boredom anyway, and you torture them even more.

If you beat such children, you not only create the image of adult enemies in them, but also raise, harden their pain threshold, and soon they begin to love to fight, love even physical punishment, love blood and beatings (inflict and receive , Yes). It's hard to imagine, but it's true. This is very typical for passionaries: in emotional heat they do not feel and are not afraid of pain. And if the pain threshold has been trained since childhood, then even more so they love to fight.

Boredom is so unbearable for such children that any pain and danger becomes a boon for them. And you additionally accustom them to pain, make pain habitual or even pleasant for them. What for?

It is better to let their pain threshold remain lower, then reverence, a barrier will remain before pain, and they will risk their health less in their lives. Pain has a protective function, it is not necessary to abolish it, it is very dangerous.

The only way to deal with such children is to keep them constantly in a state of some kind of enthusiasm, some interesting tasks. Oh yes, it's hard, but it's the only way. As soon as they get bored, they begin to violate your prohibitions, do everything that is impossible, rush to dangers and adventures. Do not think that their goal is to drive you crazy, but for them it is better than just sitting in unbearable four walls in an endless stretch of time. Time for such a child is stretched so that every five minutes turn into five weeks. Imagine that you have to sit and stare at a wall for five weeks. You want to smash your head against that wall, don't you? This is exactly what your child wants.

Don't compare your child to others. The other one has a different mentality, he endures boredom better, he can focus on a book or a toy for an hour (too low a threshold of frustration is also bad, I repeat, up to a certain age, healthy children should be restless), but yours is like this, he is unbearable in ordinary conditions, he needs constant action, a constant game, a constant change of events, a constant load, mental and physical.

Your task is not only to feed him and put him to bed, but also to provide him with an adequate level of workload, impressions and incentives. If there are too few of them, he will languish and rage, howl and climb the walls. He will blow your mind. Or destroy everything around.

Hold on. If you survive this crisis period with honor (usually a crisis lasts a year or two), you will get an adequate, but energetic son or daughter, and you will also thank him or her that they are just like that. Almost all features of the psyche (healthy) have their drawbacks and their advantages.

Reprinted with the permission of the author. The original is here.

7 reasons for "problematic" behavior in children

1. The child cannot express his needs, gets upset that he is not given what he wants, cries, throws a tantrum "for no clear reason"

Here, first of all, it is required to learn communication of any kind, gestures, cards, conditional signals, the main thing is that the child can express a request, refusal and report poor health.

2. Sensory overload (a very common cause for children with ADHD, ASD)

"harbingers", if any, to immediately help the child before he can no longer control himself.

3. Habit. The child randomly behaves in a certain way once or twice (in a store, transport, etc.) and gets what he wants. The next time the child behaves in the same way again - and again gets what he wants.

Correction of such behavior requires great willpower of the parent and a special program, because being “inside” the situation, the parent cannot adequately respond (it is difficult to calmly watch how the child smashes the windows, something must be done urgently to prevent the situation, there is no time analysis).

4. Attracting attention. Often children, especially children with developmental disabilities, simply get tired of occupying themselves, they get bored. Or they need something, but they themselves do not understand what, they want entertainment, the attention of their parents. But if you behave quietly and well, then the parents are busy with their own affairs, and this is where the principle comes to the rescue - “bad” attention is better than none.

Here it is important to give the child attention more often than he usually wants it, and, if possible, teach the child to communicate that he is bored or needs the attention of his parents.

5. Feeling unwell. High blood pressure, weather sensitivity, problems with the gastrointestinal tract (stomach hurts, intolerance to some products).

Requires close observation and analysis of all factors preceding "tantrums" and timely consultation with a doctor.

6. Deficit of some sensory sensations. It is closely related to such a concept as deprivation (deprivation). At an early age, the more different sensations the brain receives from all the senses, the better it develops. The brain of a newborn is not mature, work on the formation of neural pathways is still going on for a long time.