The Kid & I
The Kid & I is a 2005 American comedy film directed by Penelope Spheeris and starring Tom Arnold and Eric Gores.
Plot
Former actor Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is about to commit suicide over his ruined career. He throws out all his stuff and gives his clothes to a homeless man. The man drinks Bill's vodka and takes half of his pills messing up his suicide plan and takes off. Bill drinks his alcohol and then takes the remaining pills. He then lies down in the bathtub. Three days later an eccentric film agent named Johnny Bernstein (Henry Winkler) shows up at the apartment with a business offer for him. He says a billionaire, Davis Roman (Joe Mantegna), will hire Bill to write and co-star in a movie exactly like 1994's True Lies so that his son, Aaron Roman (Eric Gores), whose favorite film is True Lies, can live out his dream of being an actor and star of an action movie. Not knowing much about the boy or the billionaire, Bill agrees to do the project since he would make considerable profits.
More details
| author | Tom Arnold |
|---|---|
| director | Penelope Spheeris |
| editor | Jan Northrop John Wesley Whitton |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | act beautiful woman best friend cerebral palsy dedicate drink film crew homeless man hot tub impaired meet mentally impaired remember suicide true lies |
| musicBy | Damon Fox |
| producer | Brad Wyman |
| publisher | PorchLight Entertainment Tom Arnold |
| theme | buddy comedy filmmaking |