Ri¢hie Ri¢h (1994)
Genre: Comedy / Family
Duration: 95 minuten
Alternative title: Richie Rich
Country:
United States
Directed by: Donald Petrie
Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Jonathan Hyde and Edward Herrmann
IMDb score:
5,5 (78.856)
Releasedate: 19 December 1994
Ri¢hie Ri¢h plot
"An adventure so big... even the world's richest kid can't afford to miss it!"
He has his own roller coaster in his garden, his own McDonalds and he does his morning exercises with Claudia Schiffer: Richie Rich. A life you can only dream of. But that is about to change with a gang of mobsters who are after the family fortune...
Actors and actresses
Richie Rich
Lawrence Van Dough
Richard Rich
Regina Rich
Herbert Cadbury
Tony
Omar
Pee Wee
Young Richie
Professor Keenbean
Reviews & comments
Richard_Voorhees
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- 2311 messages
- 2135 votes
Besides the Home Alone movies, this was also a Macaulay Culkin movie that I saw a lot in my childhood.
Less memorable humor than in the aforementioned films, especially because in those films the cat and mouse game was always so entertaining to watch.
Furthermore, the fact of a bad adviser/businessman after the young boy's money is a bit cliché.
The film plays nicely on the fantasy of (American) children about what you could do if you had that much money. Examples of this are the rollercoaster in the garden, the McDonald's, the helicopter and the squads.
Less memorable and classic than the Home Alone films, but still an entertaining family film that would still be worth (re)watching these days.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10022 messages
- 4684 votes
Bit of an unfair average for a movie that is actually fun at times. A children's film, of course, in which friendship is presented as a greater wealth than money. Culkin is indeed not as memorable here as in Home Alone; I especially thought that credit went to Jonathan Hyde as the butler Cadbury and to that security guy Ferguson. I don't consider myself the target audience for these kinds of films, but from what I saw it was a rock-solid children's film full of fun and action. There may be better in this genre, but also much worse. This was Culkin's last film as a child star.
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Black Math
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- 5430 messages
- 1753 votes
Separately. On the one hand, an enormous American fixation on wealth, a glorification of the wealthy, on the other hand, the family members are extremely socialist, which does not seem particularly American. Perhaps the "winners take it all" principle of the anarcho-capitalists is difficult to sell to children.
As for the movie, it's pretty predictable. Of course there is someone who wants to get hold of the family fortune. We get to see a whole range of toys for rich people, which may have been impressive at the time, but are now much more common (video calling, or tracking the father, which is now super simple with GPS for anyone with a cell phone, so basically for everyone). And you know that everything you see will eventually be used in the denouement. A cliché that already occurs with James Bond.
Nice to have seen once, but nothing more than that, because the film is also quite outdated. 1.5*.
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