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Flo sees this as a chance to get rid of Junior and sleeps with Martin while Ben listens from the other room. Martin escapes from prison and arrives at the house, with Junior asserting Martin is his uncle. However, Ben absent-mindedly leaves his keys in the car, and Junior drives through Big Ben's sporting goods store, leading to Ben's individual retirement account being seized by his father to pay for damages. Peabody that Junior was returned 30 times, Ben decides to love him, which no one else has ever done before. Horrified, Ben decides to return Junior however, after hearing from Mr. Finally, Junior wins a Little League game by belting rival players with a bat for bullying him. Ben gives Junior his lucky prune, which his grandfather gave him shortly before he died, and which he considered a special bond. He then sabotages Lucy Henderson's 6th birthday party, after she snobbily bans him from her magic show for touching her presents. Next, Junior ruins a camping trip with Ben and Flo’s neighbor Roy and his family by urinating on the campfire and luring in a bear to scare his children. Junior throws Flo's cat at Big Ben and they both fall down the stairs and are injured. Junior's bedroom catches fire when he shorts out the clown lights, and Big Ben calls him "The Devil". Shortly after Ben and Flo bring Junior home, Big Ben visits them and is shocked that they adopted. The film is interspersed with scenes of an imprisoned Martin looking to escape and meet Junior.
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He often causes chaos, and is pen pals with serial killer Martin Beck, the "Bow-Tie Killer". However, he is a mischievous and incorrigible child. Wanting a child, Ben seeks help from adoption agent Igor Peabody, who presents him and Flo with a cute 7-year-old boy named Junior. Meanwhile, Ben and his wife, Flo, cannot conceive and visit a fertility doctor who states Flo is infertile. Although Ben has worked for his father for ten years with nothing in return, his father plans on selling the company to the Japanese rather than giving it to his son, considering his son "too nice" to be his heir.
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In later years, they eventually came to work with executives who grew up watching the film on TV airings and were excited to be meeting "the guys who wrote Problem Child." Looking back, they still feel the film is "a mess," but take some pride in being involved with one of the "very few children's films THAT black and THAT crazy," adding "and it's funny.Ben Healy is a kind man working for his father, "Big Ben" Healy, a successful, but tyrannical sporting goods dealer running for mayor. Studios were initially reluctant to hire them or take them seriously based on their work on such a prominent disreputable film. Alexander and Karaszewski were so embarrassed that they tried to distance themselves from the film in its immediate aftermath, which proved difficult. The film was a surprise hit, and Universal's most profitable film of 1990. Alexander cried after the cast and crew screening.
All involved in the difficult production were disappointed, and anticipated that it would bomb.
The studio insisted on turning it into a children's film, which meant numerous reshoots and rewrites. Mom (1983), Kindergarten Cop (1990) and Three Men and a Baby (1987).
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They envisioned a dark, adult satire of the then-popular trend of films in which cute kids teach cynical adults how to love, as seen in Baby Boom (1987), Parenthood (1989) (directly spoofed by the film's poster), Look Who's Talking (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), Mr. While other writers pitched the story as a horror film in the vein of The Bad Seed (1956) or The Omen (1976), Alexander and Karaszewski thought it had potential as a comedy. During a 2014 interview on Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast, screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski revealed that the story was inspired by the 1988 LA Times article "An Adopted Boy-and Terror Begins." The story is about a married couple suing an adoption agency because they were not informed that their adopted son had severe mental health issues with violent tendencies, and had been previously returned to the agency multiple times.