Rating: PG
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 02/15/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1
Run Time: 95 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
A purposely outlandish cartoon created in 1953,
Harvey Comics hero
Richie Rich finally came to the big screen in 1994, when a boy billionaire was not quite as fanciful an idea.
Richie Rich (
Macaulay Culkin) is the wealthiest boy in the world, but even though he loves his doting parents,
Richard (
Edward Herrmann) and
Regina (
Christine Ebersole), he's not happy.
Richie wants to play baseball with some neighborhood kids, but his parents instead hire
Reggie Jackson to coach him. He wants to go out and play, but instead he gets aerobics training from
Claudia Schiffer. When his parents disappear in the Bermuda Triangle,
Richie suspects that
Laurence Van Dogh (
John Larroquette), an employee of Rich Industries, of plotting to take over the company by killing his mom and dad. With trusty butler Cadbury (
Jonathan Hyde), eccentric inventor
Prof. Keenbean (
Michael McShane) and some new friends his own age,
Richie puts a plan together to foil
Van Dogh's wicked scheme and rescue his parents. Having grown to the point where he was no longer believable in the little kid parts that once made him America's top child star,
Culkin took an extended break from acting after the filming of
Richie Rich.
~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide
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