Getting Even with Dad

Getting Even With Dad is a 1994 comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson. The movie is about a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Timmy Gleason (Macaulay Culkin) is Ray Gleason's (Ted Danson) estranged son, who tries to blackmail his ex-con father into spending time with him. Ray and two cronies (played by Saul Rubinek and Gailard Sartain) pull off a rare coin heist, and then Timmy arrives wanting to share father-son time. Timmy hi... more

Getting Even With Dad is a 1994 comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson. The movie is about a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Timmy Gleason (Macaulay Culkin) is Ray Gleason's (Ted Danson) estranged son, who tries to blackmail his ex-con father into spending time with him. Ray and two cronies (played by Saul Rubinek and Gailard Sartain) pull off a rare coin heist, and then Timmy arrives wanting to share father-son time. Timmy hides the coins and uses them to blackmail his father. The police are suspicious of Ray, and Detective Theresa Walsh (Glenne Headly) is over-zealous in her undercover observance of Ray and Timmy, as she begins to become infatuated with Ray. Macaulay Culkin's character was supposed to have a short haircut in this movie, but Macaulay who had let his hair grow at the time liked his looks and did not want to cut it. His father Kit Culkin demanded on behalf of his son that he should keep his hair the way it was. Pointing out that his character was a... less