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With his father otherwise engaged Richie is sent, by helicopter, to be the family's representative at the re-opening of a factory, United Tools, in what is implied to be a working-class part of the city. However, even I know that runs are scored in baseball, something that the family's English butler failed to grasp, even though I'd assume he'd have some experience of cricket.
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Richard & Richie are fond of playing baseball together, but Richard's business often takes him away, and so, when we finally meet the elder Culkin brother in the role, he's playing baseball with a group of professional players, whom I suppose we're meant to recognise (imdb tells me that the coach is Reggie Jackson, a baseball Hall of Famer).Īs with Angels in the Outfield, there are a number of baseball references in this film that I, and I guess many others in a UK audience at the time, would fail to appreciate. It's here that we briefly see Macaulay's brother Rory Culkin in the role, playing the younger Richie.
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Richie's dad, Richard, played by Edward Herrmann, in much the same role as he would later fill as the family patriarch in the long-running TV show The Gilmore Girls, is a loving father & a philanthropist, who spends as much time as he can with his son. However, Richie's parents dote on him & each other, so our hero is unlikely to grow up into a narcissistic pastiche of a Bond villain with sociopathic disorders.
His toys are all gold, he lives in a stately home, has anything & everything he could possibly hope for. that Richie was born the wealthiest baby in the world. We then have a brief introduction of the character, via voiceover, supplied by the Rich family's butler, Cadbury, played by Hollywood's perpetual stiff-upper lipped Brit, Jonathan Hyde (whom I've just discovered is not an Englishman, but an Australian).Ĭadbury explains, over shots of Richie's birth, early childhood etc.
Admittedly, as with most of the films screened during my time as a projectionist, I only saw snippets when I attended to focusing duties in the projection booth, but I recall not loitering around to watch any more than was absolutely necessary.īased on a long-running comic, that I don't recall ever seeing in the UK, the film begins with the opening of a bank vault (and closes with the closing of a bank vault, for those that hang around long enough to see it), to drive home the point that he's Rich by name, and rich by birth. In all honesty though, it's not nearly as bad as I remember it. When I reviewed the quite appalling Angels in the Outfield I made a mention of there being a number of films screened during my time as a projectionist that I wouldn't enjoy re-watching, and looking through the list I've compiled it seems that they're mostly kids films.Īnd so, when my son spotted Macaulay Culkin's last film as a child star, Richie Rich (or Ri¢hie Ri¢h, to give it its official name) on Netflix, and asked that we watch it, recognising it as one of the films on the list, it was with a heavy heart that I agreed.
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