Monday, November 19, 2018

MVD Entertainment Group Says Marquee Collection Status For the Blu-ray Debut Of Getting Even With Dad On Jan. 22


DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey
MVD Entertainment Group announced its first Marquee Collection status title this past week.   Set to arrive on Blu-ray for the first time on Jan. 22 will be director Howard Deutch’s 1994 comedy, Getting Even With Dad, teaming Macaulay Culkin with Ted Danson.

Ted Danson had just wrapped his decade-long run as Sam Malone in Cheers and returned to the big screen for another crack at a hit comedy — during his Cheers run he starred in both 3 Men and a Baby (1987) and 3 Men and a Little Lady (1990) — and landed this against-character role in Howard Deutch’s follow-up to Pretty in Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) and The Great Outdoors (1988).

Enter Macaulay Culkin, who was making the transition from child star — Home Alone (1990) and Home Alone 2 (1992) — to teenager, rebellious teenager at that (out of the view of the public at the time was a rapidly deteriorating relationship with his father).  

The critics savaged the film at the time, because they didn’t get what they expected.   Time and distance has made Getting Even With Dad a far more interesting comedy, especially when you take into consideration where everyone involved was coming from at the time.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey The backbone of the story has a sullen Culkin, being left with his ex-con father (Danson), while the aunt (played by Kathleen Wilhoite) who raised him — following his mother’s death — is off on her honeymoon.   Unknown to both aunt and son is that dear old dad is planning a heist with cohorts Bobby (Saul Rubinek) and Carl (Gailard Sartain) and has no time for the son he hardly knows (time in prison will do that).

In any case, the heist goes off as planned (a stash of rare coins), but Culkin throws a monkey wrench into the works by hiding the loot and demanding some father-son time.   The bulk of the film’s running time is Culkin twisting in the knife ever deeper with more and more outrageous demands.

Bonus features included with this Marquee Collection is a vintage “Making-of” featurette.

DVD & Blu-ray Release Report, Ralph Tribbey



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