Richie Rich (film)

Richie Rich sometimes stylized Rihie Rih is a 1994 American family film, directed by Donald Petrie, based on the Harvey Comics character of the same name, starring Macaulay Culkin as the title character. Edward Herrmann, Michael McShane, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Hyde, and John Larroquette serve in supporting roles, while Reggie Jackson, Claudia Schiffer and Ben Stein appear in cameo roles. Culkins younger brother, Rory Culkin, played the part of young Richie.

Richard Richie Rich Jr. Macaulay Culkin is the worlds wealthiest kid, the son of billionaire businessman and philanthropist Richard Rich, Sr. Edward Herrmann. Richie has been raised with the best of everything money can buy, but with only his loyal butler Herbert Cadbury Jonathan Hyde as a companion, he lacks any friends his own age. But he thinks he might get his chance at a dedication to the reopening of United Tool, a factory Richard recently acquired intending to modernize the factory and give it away to the workers as a token of goodwill. There Richie encounters a group of sandlot kids playing baseball. Unfortunately, before he is able to talk to them, the toostrict head of security, Ferguson Chelcie Ross, stops Richie and sharply pulls him away.Richard tries to keep in touch with Richie and spend time with his son whenever he can. He even had the Rich familys head scientist, Professor Keenbean Mike McShane, invent a machine called the Dadlink that pinpoints Richards location in seconds, so Richie can talk to his dad whenever hes away on business. Meanwhile, the greedy CFO of Rich Industries, Laurence Van Dough John Larroquette, is planning to steal the Rich financial fortune, believed to be stored in the Rich family vault. Van Dough, with the help of Ferguson, plots to blow up the plane carrying the Rich family to England. Cadbury, seeing Richies loneliness, makes a suggestion to Richies mother, Regina Christine Ebersole, and arranges for Richie to stay home in Chicago with the sandlot kids for a weekend of fun. That weekend allows Richie to earn the friendship of the sandlot kids, most importantly, Gloria Pazinski. Cadbury also begins to fall for Glorias mother, Dianne, who is rather plainlooking but very warmhearted, and with a caring, outspoken nature which Gloria obviously shares. ........

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