Mark and Taylor are back from hiatus to discuss THE GOOD SON (1993), wherein the world's most bankable child star plays a cigarette-smoking, murderous psychopath.

The story follows a grieving young boy (Elijah Wood) who goes to visit his aunt and uncle's family while his father leaves the country on an urgent business trip. While there, he meets his cousin (Macaulay Culkin), who is definitely not evil personified.

Reviews read more like lists of grievances, with critics viscerally rejecting the movie and condemning any/all adults who allowed the involvement of children.

Ironically, the only adult who wanted Macaulay to be involved was his manager/father, who refused to sign the contract for HOME ALONE 2: LOST IN NEW YORK (1992) unless the studio agreed to cast him.

Three directors, two casts, a slew of producers, an absurd amount of rewrites and revisions, an unsuccessful intervention from John Hughes, and a 60-person crew left jobless at Christmastime. Worth it.

"Even now, the ill will generated by THE GOOD SON is hard to overestimate." - LA Times, 1995

“Who in the world would want to see this movie?” - Roger Ebert, 1/2 star

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