Dickie Roberts : former child star

Resource Information

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Label

Dickie Roberts : former child star

Title remainder

former child star

Statement of responsibility

Paramount Pictures presents a Happy Madison production, a Sam Weisman film ; produced by Adam Sandler & Jack Giarraputo ; written by Fred Wolf & David Spade ; directed by Sam Weisman

Contributor

• Happy Madison (Firm)
• Paramount Pictures Corporation
• Ackerman, Tom
• Beck, Christophe
• Bierko, Craig
• Bondelli, Roger
• Boyd, Jenna, 1993-
• Giarraputo, Jack
• Jensen, Lisa
• Lipton, Dina
• Lovitz, Jon
• McCormack, Mary, 1969-
• Milano, Alyssa
• Reiner, Rob
• Roberts, Doris, 1925-2016
• Sandler, Adam
• Spade, David
• Terra, Scott, 1987-
• Wachtel, Waddy
• Weisman, Sam
• Wolf, Fred

Subject

• Auditions -- Drama
• Child actors -- Drama
• Children -- Research -- Drama
• Comedy films
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Comedy films
• trueDrama
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• eng
• eng

Summary

Dickie Roberts is a former child actor who appeared on a hit television show. Now in his thirties, he can only find work as a parking valet and spends his free time with other former child stars. Wanting to make a comeback, he manages to get an audition with director Rob Reiner. When the role requires him to be normal, he decides to hire a normal family for $20,000 in order to "research" the childhood he missed out on

Cataloging source

IV0

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Thomas Ackerman ; edited by Roger Bondelli ; music by Christophe Beck and Waddy Wachtel ; costume designer, Lisa Jensen ; production designer, Dina Lipton

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for crude and sex-related humor, language, and drug references

Language note

• Closed-captioned
• Language tracks in English (Dolby 5.1 surround, Dolby surround) or dubbed French (Dolby surround), with optional English subtites

PerformerNote

David Spade, Mary McCormack, Jon Lovitz, Craig Bierko, Alyssa Milano, Doris Roberts, Scott Terra, Jenna Boyd, Rob Reiner

Runtime

98

Target audience

general

Technique

live action