Disney's The Kid

Disney's The Kid is a 2000 American film directed by Jon Turteltaub. The film was released on July 7, 2000.
== Plot ==
Days from turning 40, Russ Duritz is a successful but abrasive image consultant in Los Angeles and has a strained relationship with his father. Returning home one day he finds a toy plane on his porch and a strange boy indoors, whom he chases through the streets.
After seeing the boy enter a diner, Russ finds no sign of him inside. Thinking he is hallucinating, he visits a psychiatrist, but finds the same boy on his couch eating popcorn and watching TV when he returns home. The boy says his name is Rusty and that he was just searching for his toy plane.
Seeing a resemblance, Russ compares memories and birthmarks and realises Rusty is actually himself as a kid. After questioning Russ, Rusty tells him, "I grow up to be a loser." Rusty dreams of owning a dog naming Chester and flying planes, but Russ gave up on those dreams.
Russ's co-worker Amy thinks that Russ and Rusty are father and son and accuses him of being a dead-beat dad. Rusty assures her he is not his son and implores Russ to tell her the truth, but he thinks she'd never believe them. Amy realises the truth while watching the two argue, as they are nearly identical.
In response to Rusty's questions about how he became Russ, he tells him about his scholarship to UCLA and working for six years to get a master's degree and change himself to who he is. Rusty understands Russ's job as an image consultant to be training people to pretend to be somebody else.
Russ cancels his appointments and spends the day with Rusty, trying to figure out what from the past needs to be fixed to get him back home. Driving through a tunnel, Russ recalls a fight he lost with some bullies who were abusing a three-legged dog. They emerge from the tunnel into Rusty's eighth birthday in 1968.
Russ helps Rusty win the fight and save the dog, but realises that was only the first half of the ordeal. Rusty's terminally ill mother is called to take him home, where his father angrily berates him for getting into trouble and causing his mother further stress. Rusty breaks down and his father harshly tells him to grow up, making Russ realise why he is the way he is today.
Tearfully, Russ assures Rusty that he was not responsible for his mother's death, and that his father's outburst was not because he truly believed Rusty was responsible, but simply because he was scared about the prospect of raising his children alone.
They celebrate their birthday, but realise their efforts to change the outcome of the day have failed, as their father's outburst left Rusty emotionally scarred in both cases. When a dog named Chester greets Rusty, they find that his owner is an older version of them who owns planes and has a family with Amy.
Realising that Rusty's appearance was meant to change his own ways rather than Rusty's, Russ arranges to see his father and, with a puppy, visits Amy, who invites him into her home.
== Cast and Characters ==
* Bruce Willis as Russell Morley "Russ" Duritz
* Spencer Breslin as Rusty Duritz
* Emily Mortimer as Amy
* Lily Tomlin as Janet
* Chi McBride as Kenny
* Juanita Moore as Kenny's Grandmother
* Jean Smart as Deidre Lefever
* Stanley Anderson as Bob Riley
* Dana Ivey as Dr. Suzanne Alexander
* Reiley McClendon as Mark
* Steve Tom as Bruce
* Larry King as Himself
* Jeri Ryan as Herself
* Nick Chinlund as Himself
* Daniel von Bargen as Sam Duritz
* Esther Scott as Clarissa
* Melissa McCarthy as Skyway Diner Waitress
* Elizabeth Arlen as Gloria Duritz
Category:Films
Category:Live-action Films
Category:2000 Films
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