Dutch (film)


Dutch

Promotional film poster
Directed by Peter Faiman
Produced by Robert Weissman
Written by John Hughes (written by)
Starring Ed O' Neill, Ethan Embry
Music by Alan Silvestri
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox
Release date(s) 19 July 1991
Running time approx 90 min.
Country United States
Language English
French
Budget $1,000,000 (est.)[1]
Gross revenue $26,000,000 (est.)[1]
Followed by Dooley's Corner (tv series October 6,1992-October 8,1992)

Dutch (released in the UK as Driving Me Crazy) is a 1991 American comedy/drama film directed by Peter Faiman and written by John Hughes. The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. The film stars Ethan Embry (as Ethan Randall) and Ed O'Neill with a cameo appearance by golfer great Arnold Palmer. O' Neill and Embry would work together again over a decade later in the 2003 version of the series Dragnet.

The movie received an PG-13 rating from the MPAA. It was also marketed with the tagline "They're the best of friends... And they've got the scars to prove it."

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Cast

Actor Role
Ed O'Neill Dutch Dooley
Ethan Randall Doyle Standish
JoBeth Williams Natalie Standish
Christopher McDonald Reed Standish
Ari Meyers Brock
E. G. Daily Hailey
L. Scott Caldwell Homeless Woman
Kathleen Freeman Gritzi
Arnold Palmer As himself

Plot summary

Dutch Dooley (Ed O'Neill) agrees to drive his girlfriend's twelve-year-old son Doyle (Ethan Randall) home for Thanksgiving, hoping that the trip will allow the two of them to develop a relationship and grow closer as a family. When Dutch arrives at Doyle's boarding school in Georgia, he discovers that Doyle is a stuck-up know-it-all who looks down on Dutch because of his blue collar upbringing. Doyle's mother Natalie Standish (JoBeth Williams) is recovering from a failed marriage to her priggish husband Reed (Christopher McDonald). Doyle blames Natalie for the break-up of the marriage, and is betraying the inflections of William F. Buckley, Jr. As Dutch and Doyle travel from Georgia to Chicago, they encounter various obstacles that bring them closer together. They eventually arrive home just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

Other Media

On a season 9 episode of Married... With Children, Al (Dutch star Ed O'Neill's character) & Peggy walk into a video store where a display of Dutch VHS tapes sits labeled as on sale. Peggy picks a tape up, looks at it, then puts it down in disgust of content of the film. In another episode, Al and Peggy enter the same store. There is a cardboard poster of Dutch with O'Neill's face covered up. In yet another episode, Al remarks about having to be subjected to watching Dutch on a flight back to Chicago.

References

  1. ^ a b "Dutch (1991)". The-numbers.com. http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1994/0SGTE.php. Retrieved on 2009-04-02. 

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