Just You And Me, Kid

Director: Leonard B. Stern, Leonard Stern Leonard B. Stern

Overview

In this comedy, an elderly ex-vaudevillian is surprised to find a naked young woman in the trunk of his car. He soon discovers that she is a runaway fleeing from both the police and an enraged drug dealer she cheated out of $20,000. Meanwhile, the codger's daughter continually attempts to get him committed because of his overly generous support of his former colleagues.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/03/2014
UPC:	0043396444270
Original Release:	1979
Rating:	PG
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Sales rank:	21,220

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

George Burns	Bill
Brooke Shields	Kate
Burl Ives	Max
Lorraine Gary	Shirl
Nicolas Coster	Harris
Keye Luke	Dr. Device
Carl Ballantine	Reinhoff the Remarkable
Leon Ames	Manduke the Magnificent
Ray Bolger	Tom
John Schuck	Stan
Andrea Howard	Sue
Christopher Knight	Roy
William Russ	Demesta
Robert Doran	Box Boy

Technical Credits

Irving Fein	Producer
Leonard Stern	Director
Jerome M. Zeitman	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Asking someone of George Burns' advanced years to single-handedly carry a picture like Just You and Me, Kid must be considered some form of elder abuse. Not that Burns was incapable or not up to the task. He proves in practically every frame of Kid that he was still capable of producing his own strange, peculiar brand of charm in abundance, and that what he didn't know about timing simply wasn't worth knowing. But the sad fact is that he -- and the viewing audience -- would have been better off if the makers of this film had simply turned the camera on and asked Burns to improvise, all on his own, for an hour and a half or so. Instead, they made the mistake of asking him to speak the lines that Leonard B. Stern and Oliver Hailey had fashioned for him, to pretend to tolerate the tired story they had concocted and to pretend that his co-star Brooke Shields had something to offer beyond her well-documented stunning looks. Kid's screenplay is woefully poor, lacking almost entirely in humor and populated with characters that are almost all a bore. Burns survives all this beautifully, but Shields sinks -- as indeed would almost anyone asked to play her role. The supporting cast does include some wonderful fellow old timers; they do well enough, but the likes pf Ray Bolger and Burl Ives deserve better.

All Movie Guide - Craig Butler