November 28 - Dutch

Today’s movie is a comedy with a scene that happens on November 28. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

DUTCH                                     

Blue collar Dutch Dooley stands out when he attends a swanky party with his new upper crust girlfriend Natalie Standish. At the party she meets Reed Standish, her snooty ex-husband who tells her he can’t take their son over Thanksgiving break from his boarding school in Georgia since he has to go to Europe.  When she complains about this Reed tells her to stop or he’ll take custody of their son, Doyle from her. Dutch threatens Reed with bodily harm if he hurts Natalie. In spite of Doyle telling his Mom he does not want to spend thanksgiving with her, Dutch offers to go and bring him back to Chicago. At the school Dutch finds that Doyle is as snooty as his father. Doyle hits him with a book and shoots him in the groin with a BB gun. Dutch has to tie Doyle up to get him into the car. Dutch buys fireworks, but they end up all going off at once. Dutch gets so fed up with Doyle that when Doyle jumps out of the car, Dutch drives off and makes Doyle walk a mile in a snowstorm to their hotel. Doyle gets revenge by parking Dutch’s car in the path of a semi, which destroys it. They catch a ride with two prostitutes, but they steal Dutch and Doyle’s luggage, leaving them stranded at a truck stop. Doyle tries to call his father and learns he did not go to Europe, but is instead spending the holiday with his new girlfriend. Doyle also gets upset when Dutch tells him that Doyle “hates his mother’. They stowaway on the back of an eighteen-wheeler. The guards at a storage facility attack them but Doyle’s karate and the BB gun allow Dutch and Doyle to escape. They get a ride to a local homeless shelter. While there Doyle befriends a little girl and realizes he does miss his mother and likes Dutch.  On November 28, 1991, Thanksgiving day [1:34:18 to 1:43:27] the girl’s parents drive Dutch and Doyle the rest of the way to Natalie’s house. Reed is there, but after Doyle tells his father that he knows Reed lied about having to go to Europe, Doyle decides to stay with his mother. Reed angrily gives her only until Monday to move out of the house. However, after Dutch punches him, he agrees to let her stay for six months and be more respectful to both Natalie and Doyle. Dutch, Natalie and Doyle enjoy Thanksgiving dinner, but afterwards Dutch shoots Doyle with the BB gun, getting his revenge as he promised.

An okay film. Not spectacular, but it does have it’s moments.

Producer - Robert Weissman              

Director - Peter Faiman                                        

Screenplay - John Hughes                                    

Runtime – 1 hour 30 minutes

Released – July 19, 1991

Starring –

Ed O'Neill as Dutch Dooley

Ethan Embry as Doyle Standish

JoBeth Williams as Natalie Standish

Christopher McDonald as Reed Standish

Elizabeth Daily as Hailey

Ari Meyers as Brock

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2014