Just You and Me, Kid (1979)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Leonard Stern

Writers:

Oliver Hailey (writer)
Tom Lazarus (writer)

Release Date:

13 July 1979 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

The story of two juvenile delinquents.

Plot:

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Plot Keywords:

Runaway | Vaudevillian | Drug Dealer | Nude Girl | Reality

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

George Burns	...	Bill
Brooke Shields	...	Kate
Burl Ives	...	Max
Ray Bolger	...	Tom
Lorraine Gary	...	Shirl
Christopher Knight	...	Roy
Carl Ballantine	...	Reinhoff the Remarkable
Keye Luke	...	Doctor Device
Robert Doran	...	Box Boy
William Russ	...	Demesta
John Schuck	...	Stan
Leon Ames	...	Manduke the Magnificent
Andrea Howard	...	Sue
Nicolas Coster	...	Harris
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Levin Bailey	...	Student
Peter Brandon	...	Woodrow
Julie Cobb	...	Dr. Nancy Faulkner
Jacque Lynn Colton	...	Edna
Patrick Cronin	...	Doctor
Ben Frank	...	First Policeman
Thomas Leopold	...	Policeman
Robert Phalen	...	Foster Father
Roger Price	...	Mailman
Arthur Rosenberg	...	Pharmacist
Kate Stern	...	Student

Runtime:

93 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Metrocolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Iceland:L | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivia:

Like his character Bill, George Burns is also an ex-vaudevillian who performed with his wife (Gracie Allen) who is now deceased.

Goofs:

Boom mic visible: In the scene where Bill first goes to visit the Max to tell him about Kate, you can see the boom mic come into the shot for a few seconds

Quotes:

Doctor Device: [after hiding Kate on the ceiling with a levitation trick] Now, we'll let you down, if you promise never to tell how we do this.
Kate: OK. But, how do you do it?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Oscar's Greatest Moments (1992) (V)

Justly forgotten

Foster kid Kate (Brooke Shields) is on the run from an abusive drug dealer. Through circumstances too ridiculous to get into she ends up hiding out with old vaudevillian Bill (George Burns). She doesn't trust him at first but they end up (sigh) becoming good friends. It all ends in a totally predictable happy ending that will have you rolling your eyes.

I caught this in a theater back in 1979. I was only 16 and (back then) liked almost anything. I saw it solely because of Burns (Shields was still fairly unknown--this was pre "Blue Lagoon"). I though it might be light and innocuous. It WAS both of those things but it was also boring, pointless and full of some of the worst jokes and most contrived situations I've ever seen. Aside from a glimpse of Brooke's (or her doubles) nude butt and a few minor profanities this is made for TV material--and I don't mean that in a good way! Burns tries his best to put over his terrible lines but he can't. Shields is young and appealing--but this was before she learned how to act. This did nothing for either of their careers and sank without a trace. As other posters have said this was never on VHS or DVD. There's a reason for that! Bottom of the barrel. A 1.