Curly Sue (1991) on Netflix
Bill Dancer and Curly Sue, the orphan he raised, are homeless and survive by running small cons for food. Their next target is Grey Ellison, a wealthy divorce lawyer.
- Netflix3.3/5
- IMDb5.9/1025,150 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes13%
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Plot summary
Bill Dancer and Curly Sue scrape by on small scams aimed at getting enough to eat. Curly Sue is seven, an orphan Bill took in as a baby and has cared for since. One night at a shelter, a drifter steals the tin ring her late mother left her and pawns it. The two move from Detroit to Chicago, where they con Grey Ellison, a rich divorce lawyer, into thinking she backed her Mercedes into Bill. The next night Grey collides with Bill for real, and she insists that he and Sue spend the night at her home, though her boyfriend, Walker McCormick, objects.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Curly Sue (1991)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Curly Sue was written, produced and directed by John Hughes, and proved to be his final directing role for a film after a career behind the camera.
- According to Lynch, when she signed on the project was initially intended to co-star Alec Baldwin, who had worked with Hughes on She's Having a Baby, and Kevin Spacey, in the parts later played by James Belushi and John Getz respectively.
- Steve Carell made his film acting debut in Curly Sue as the character Tesio, billed on screen under the name Steven Carell rather than the Steve Carell audiences later knew.
- Lynch said that although she loved working with Hughes, he and Belushi did not get along. "I kind of felt like a mom dealing with two 12-year-old boys," she said, adding that what she thought would be a cute, sweet little movie went on for something like five months.
- On At the Movies, Gene Siskel said he was "floored" that Ebert gave Curly Sue a good review and compared it favorably to Planes, Trains and Automobiles. Siskel called the film "unctuous", said there was "no chemistry whatsoever" between Belushi and Lynch, and gave it a thumbs down.
