Dickie Roberts Former Child Star (2003)
Storyline
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid.
Directors
Cast
Barry Livingston, David Spade, Michael McDonald, Tom Arnold, Ernest Lee Thomas, Wyatt Smith, Rob Reiner, Alan Blumenfeld, Kevin Grevioux, Corey Haim, Rachel Dratch, Christopher Knights, Edie McClurg, Jonathan Loughran, Craig Bierko, Michael Buffer, Hal Sparks, Brendan Fraser, Fred Wolf, Ambyr Childers, Lisa Joyner, Alyssa Milano, Mary McCormack, Patrick Thomas O'Brien, John Farley, Jon Lovitz, Corey Feldman, Florence Henderson, Peter Dante, Doris Roberts, John Kirk, Spencer Garrett, Valerie Perrine, Ashley Edner, Charlene Tilton, M. Blair Breard, Todd Bridges, Jesse Rutherford, Scott Terra, Marion Ross, Retta, Nancy Pimental, Brandon de Paul, Kevin Farley, Gary Coleman, Michelle Ruben, Mindy Burbano, Jenna Boyd, Bobby Slayton, Emmanuel Lewis, Joey Diaz, Brian Clark, Leif Garrett, Emily Harrison, Sasha Mitchell, Kathleen Randazzo, Peggy Mannix, Danny Bonaduce, Dustin Diamond, Rob Elk, Ian Gomez, Dick Van Patten, Nicholas Schwerin, Alexander D. Slanger, Oliver Kindred, Evan Lee Dahl, Colin Ryan, Christopher Johnson, Sergei Virovlianski, Jake Chapman, Miko C. Brando, Jann Carl, Lindsey Dann, Erin Murphy, Meghan Faye Gallagher, Willie Aames, Fred Berry, Jeff Conaway, Tony Dow, Mike Lookinland, Maureen McCormick, Eddie Mekka, Jeremy Miller, Erin Moran, Haywood Nelson, Jay North, Ron Palillo, Butch Patrick, Paul Petersen, Adam Rich, Rodney Allen Rippy
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Reviews
80
This sleek and sunny comedy is an all-too-rare example of smart and inventive Hollywood filmmaking.
50
Entertainment Weekly
The number of levels on which these pros trade on their diminished reputations makes the movie an inside joke rather than a funny one. If Spade thinks otherwise, he's nucking futs.
50
The film is intermittently funny and strangely intermittent.
40
Maintaining a winking distance from his comic persona, Mr. Spade radiates a cunning show-business cynicism that lets you know he's aware that he's slumming to make a buck.
38
Chicago Tribune
The best thing about star and co-writer David Spade's Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star is the end-title sequence, a big, sassy sing-along in which dozens of old TV child stars spew out defiant jokes about their old careers and fame's fickle fingers.
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