Dutch (1991)

Good start, but then it gets ruined

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

i just finished watching this,20 years after it was made and enjoyed it immensely.i can't understand how it did so poorly at the box office.even today it has a strong message of values and humanity that should be as relevant today as then.the boy who played Doyle was excellent and showed the maturity of an older actor.it seems that the popularity of movies are more dependent on how much sex,violence,and the f bomb are on the screen.i do wish the ending when they were dropped off by thehomeless family went into more detail that they would be taken care of

That's what this movie is all about. Yeah.1. Young Ethan Embry. Adorable.2. Young Ed O'Neill. Adorabler.3. The chick who does thirty thousand cartoon voices playing a prostitute. Magical.5. Rose from Lost appearing at a shelter for like 2 seconds and then giving Ed and Ethan a ride. That was nice.4. I was just checking how well you can count.6. I always wanted a deck of those playing cards. Not because I'm a pervert but because of the song that plays when you slowly reveal them.7. In the end however, I must admit this was probably mostly a nostalgia movie, for me. You'll either like it or dislike it, because...really there's not much else you could do, you COULD be somewhere in between, or you could like it on Tuesdays through Fridays and hate it the rest of the week but, that's just ridiculous.

DUTCH, in my opinion, is an excellent comedy about an unlikely friendship between a teenage boy and his mother's boyfriend. If you ask me, Doyle (Ethan Randall) was an absolute snob! That kid really need to learn respect! However, in my opinion, every mishap that occurred on his journey home with Dutch (Ed O'Neill) was absolutely hilarious. Before I wrap this up, I'd like to say that everyone was ideally cast, the direction was flawless, and production design was spectacular, and the performances were top-grade. Now, in conclusion, I highly recommend this comedy about an unlikely friendship between a teenage boy and his mother's boyfriend.

The chemistry between Ed O'Niel as 'Dutch' and Ethan Randall as 'Doyle' is excellent. It makes the movie work, whereas other lesser talents would have produced a ho-hum movie. The excellence is not always found in the script, and these two actors bring a mediocre script up to the level of excellent. The young actor 'Ethan Randall' that played Doyle is in reality none other than 'Ethan Embry', the actor who played 'Frank Smith' on the circa-2003 version of 'L.A. Dragnet', costarring with Ed O'Niel once again!Unfortunately, Ethan Embry was replaced in the second season of 'Dragnet' by an entire roster of new (and boring) actors...including the yet-to-be-desperate housewife Eva Longoria! Those two work well together.