Disney's The Kid

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January 18, 2007                                                               

‘GETTING IN TOUCH WITH YOUR INNER CHILD’

IS ABOUT TO TAKE ON A WHOLE NEW MEANING
FOR RUSS DURITZ
when his eight-year-old self suddEnly appears!

bruce willis and ‘The SANTA CLAUSE’ STAR SPENCER BRESLIN STAR IN
‘DISNEY’S THE KID’

A HALLMARK CHANNEL PREMIERE

MARCH 31

Heartfelt Comedy Asks the Question,
 “Would Who You Were Like Who You’ve Become?”

When a successful businessman who has spent his life trying to forget the awkward child he used to be suddenly comes face-to-face with his eight-year-old self, each realizes that they have a lot to learn from the other in “Disney’s The Kid,” a Hallmark Channel Premiere, Saturday, March 31 (9/8c).

Russ Duritz (Bruce Willis, “Die Hard”) is a high-powered image consultant who views his success as the best way to separate himself from the painful memories of who he used to be: a pudgy, crybaby of a kid who was the victim of daily torture at school.  But when that very child, eight-year-old Rusty Duritz (Spencer Breslin, “The Santa Clause”) magically appears on his doorstep, both of their lives are turned upside-down.  Now, Russ is forced to relive the past he has tried to forget, while Rusty is disappointed that his older self has abandoned their childhood dreams. 

“Disney’s The Kid” is a Walt Disney Pictures Presentation of a Junction Entertainment Production.  Arnold Rifkin and David Willis are executive producers.  Jon Turteltaub, Christina Steinberg and Hunt Lowry are the producers.  The film was directed by Jon Turteltaub and written by Audrey Wells.  The film is distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.

Hallmark Channel, owned and operated by Crown Media Holdings, Inc., is a 24-hour basic cable network that provides a diverse slate of high-quality entertainment programming to a national audience of over 75 million subscribers.  The top tier program service is distributed through over 5,300 cable systems and communities as well as direct-to-home satellite services across the country.  Hallmark Channel consistently ranks among the top 10 ad-supported cable networks in Total Day and Prime Time household ratings and is the nation’s leading network in providing family-friendly programming.  Crown Media also operates a second 24-hour linear channel, Hallmark Movie Channel.

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