We want this kind of chaos,’ ” Dugan recalls. “I said, ‘You’re looking at me like I’m f- ing nuts, and this is what we want. While Dugan was pitching his take on the comedy to the studio’s president, producer Brian Grazer and other execs, he decided at the spur of the moment to deliver his spiel while standing on the sturdy wooden coffee table in the president’s office.
PROBLEM CHILD 1990 JACK WARDEN TV
'Back to the Future': Director, Stars, Producers Reveal 10 Secrets You Didn't Knowĭugan was a successful TV director in the 1980s, cutting his teeth on episodes of Moonlighting and other shows, but he hadn’t yet directed a feature when Universal was on the hunt for someone to helm Problem Child.
Dugan has directed 14 films in his career, including the Adam Sandler comedies Happy Gilmore (1996), Big Daddy (1999), You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (2008), Just Go With It (2011) and both Grown Ups films. “ we had our first preview, 70 percent of the audience walked out, and some people were actually verbally angry,” reveals Dugan, who made his feature directorial debut with the film. With the John Ritter-starring comedy hitting the 25th anniversary of its Jrelease, director Dennis Dugan tells The Hollywood Reporter that the film’s first test audience did not exactly appreciate the film. Problem Child was Universal’s most profitable film of 1990, but its path to success was, well, a bit problematic at times.
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