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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1991 DVD Release: 07/08/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French, Spanish Subtitles: English, French, Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 42 mins Studio: Warner Home Video Members Wishing: 5 Genres: Comedy, Melodrama, Family-Oriented Comedy

John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Bill is also the guardian of cute pint-size moppet Curly Sue (Alisan Porter), a cutey pie cross between Little Orphan Annie and Tatum O'Neal's Addie Loggins character from Paper Moon. Bill and Curly Sue are a perfect con team, and they practice their scams when they need money for food. Pulling a knockdown car-accident scam, Bill makes hard-bitten Chicago lawyer Grey Ellison (Kelly Lynch) think that she slammed into him with her car. She buys dinner for the two mountebanks before being taken away by her snotty boyfriend Walter McCormick (John Getz). But the next morning, Grey actually does hit Bill with her car, and she takes the two back home with her. At first, Grey can't seem to get Curly Sue out of her mind, but then she finds herself falling in love with Bill. They begin to form a perfect family until Walter puts in a call to the Department of Children and Family Services. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

James Belushi - Bill Dancer
Kelly Lynch - Grey Ellison
Alisan Porter - Curly Sue
John Getz - Walter McCormick
Fred Dalton Thompson - Bernard Oxbar

This family comedy has been given a simple but adequate presentation on DVD. Curly Sue is presented in a widescreen transfer at its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1; the image is letterboxed on conventional televisions and enhanced for 16 x 9 playback on widescreen monitors. The film's English-language audio has been remixed for playback in Dolby Digital Surround. The disc also includes alternate audio tracks in French and Portuguese, as well as subtitles in English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. The feature is also closed captioned in English. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide