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Directed by | Donald Petrie |
Produced by |
Joel Silver John Davis |
Screenplay by | Tom S. Parker & Jim Jennewein |
Story by | Neil Tolkin |
Based on |
Richie Rich by Alfred Harvey Warren Kremer |
Starring | |
Narrated by | Jonathan Hyde |
Music by | Alan Silvestri |
Cinematography | Don Burgess |
Edited by | Malcolm Campbell |
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Distributed by |
Warner Bros. (Time Warner) |
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Running time
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96 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $40 million |
Box office | $38.1 million |
Richie Rich (sometimes stylized as Ri¢hie Ri¢h) is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character of the same name created by Alfred Harvey and Warren Kremer. The film stars Macaulay Culkin, John Larroquette, Edward Herrmann, Jonathan Hyde, and Christine Ebersole while Reggie Jackson, Claudia Schiffer, and Ben Stein appear in cameo roles. Culkin's younger brother, Rory Culkin, played the part of young Richie. While in theaters, the film was shown with a Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoon called Chariots of Fur.
In 1998, it was followed by a direct-to-video sequel, Richie Rich's Christmas Wish.
Richard "Richie" Rich Jr. (Macaulay Culkin) is the world's wealthiest kid, the son of billionaire businessman and philanthropist Richard Rich, Sr. (Edward Herrmann). Richie has only his loyal butler Herbert Cadbury (Jonathan Hyde) as a companion, and lacks any friends his own age. 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) Richie encounters a group of sandlot kids playing baseball. Unfortunately, before he is able to talk to them, the overly-strict head of security, Ferguson (Chelcie Ross), stops Richie and sharply pulls him away. Cadbury, ever the "third parent", reprimands Ferguson.