Getting Even With Dad is a 1994 American comedy film starring Macaulay Culkin and Ted Danson. The movie is about a dysfunctional father-son relationship. Timmy Gleason is Ray Gleason's estranged son, who tries to blackmail his ex-con father into spending time with him. Ray and two cronies pull off a rare coin heist, and then Timmy arrives wanting to share father-son time. He hides the coins and uses them to blackmail his father. The police are suspicious of Ray, and Detective Theresa Walsh is over-zealous in her undercover observance of him and Timmy, as she begins to become infatuated... with him. Macaulay Culkin's character was supposed to have a short haircut in this movie, but Culkin, who had let his hair grow at the time, liked his looks and did not want to cut it. His father, Kit Culkin, demanded on behalf of his son that he be allowed to keep his hair the way it was, pointing out that his character was more a rough around the edges, working class boy and not a clean-cut, prep school one. He got to keep his long hair.
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| Release date: | June 17, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Howard Deutch |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 104 Minutes |
| Producer: | Katie Jacobs |
| Estimated budget: | $24,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy |