Richie Rich (1994)

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Richie Rich	Macaulay Culkin	½
Van Dough	John Larroquette
Mr. Rich	Edward Herrmann
Mrs. Rich	Christine Ebersole	½
Cadbury	Jonathan Hyde
Professor Keenbean	Michael McShane
Aerobics Instructor	Claudia Schiffer	-
Young Richie	Rory Culkin	-

Review

A surprisingly effective adaptation about the "world's richest boy", starring Macaulay Culkin in a Richie Rich vein of form. The film has comedy and morality in equal doses, like any modern children's movie aspire to. And although the comedy is very much conventional, the story's obvious message about money and wealth not being the full answer to our problems is well-presented and discussed. The director Donald Petrie (Mystic Pizza, Grumpy Old Men) works well with the film's angle and obviously has quite a bit of fun together with his talented cast, not least Jonathan Hyde as Cadbury and Edward Herrmann and Christine Ebersole as Mrs. and Mr. Rich. There's also a fine musical score by Alan Silvestri.