During the party, Ben gives Junior his good-luck prune, which his grandfather gave him shortly before he died, and which he considered a special bond.

He then terrorizes his neighbors' daughter's birthday party, after Lucy, the snobby birthday girl, bans him from her magic show for touching her presents.

Junior sends in a real bear to scare off Roy's family. Next, Junior ruins a camping trip with the neighbors by urinating on the campfire, and by manipulating a practical joke played on the kids by their father. Junior's bedroom catches fire when he shorts out the electric clown lights in it, and Big Ben refers to him as 'The Devil.' Junior throws Fuzzball, the pet cat, at Big Ben and they both fall down the stairs and are severely injured in the process. Shortly after Ben and Flo bring Junior home, Big Ben visits, and is shocked that they adopted. The film is interspersed with scenes of an imprisoned Martin looking to escape and meet up with Junior, whom he misconstrues as a fellow criminal named 'J.R.' He tends to leave a path of serious destruction in his wake, and is even pen pals with serial killer Martin Beck a.k.a the 'Bow Tie Killer'. However, he is hardly a model child devilish and incorrigible. Meanwhile, Ben and his social-climbing wife, Flo, have been unable to conceive, and visit a fertility doctor who tells them they are both infertile.ĭesperate to become a father, Ben approaches an adoption agent, Igor Peabody, with his dilemma, and Igor presents him and Flo with a cute 7-year-old boy named Junior.

Although Ben has worked under his father's employ without so much as a raise or promotion in return, his father plans on handing over control of the company and ownership of the land to Japanese buyers rather than passing it on to his son, seeing his son as 'too nice' to be his heir. Plotīen Healy is a good-natured man working for his father, 'Big Ben' Healy, a very successful, but tyrannical sporting goods dealer running for mayor. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics, Problem Child went on to be a box office success, grossing $54 million domestically and $72 million worldwide.

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