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Nothing lasts forever

Preston Waters is off to a bad summer. Besides his birthday coming up, nothing else looks promising.First he has to share his own room with his brothers who are going to run a business. They can't do it in their rooms because they don't have enough space. Off to a birthday party he only gets $6 tokens while others get $32, $35, and even $50. When one of his birthday cards comes early, he only gets a check made out for $11.Going to the bank he learns he needs $200 at least to start an account. Leaving the bank, a bully steals the check. Pursuing after the kid nearly gets him run over (definately his bike gets ruined) by a criminal named Quigley (played by Miguel Ferrer). Quigley's just come from the bank too from giving the owner $1,000,000 to give to this guy tomorrow. Quigley starts to write a check for the damage, but only succeeds in writing his name before a police car circles the area. Afraid, he gives Preston the check, informs him to give it to his dad to finish out.That evening though, Preston tells his dad that he doesn't want a new bike, he wants his own room back, better yet his own house. His father confines him to his room for the rest of the evening. Moping in his room Preston figures things can't get any worse he realizes that he forgot about the check as it's still in his shirt pocket. It's blank.Using the computer and after careful consideration, he makes it out for $1,000,000. The next day, while trying to cash it at the bank he's taken to the owner who thinks he's the person he's supposed to give the $1,000,000 and does. He's not though as the real person named Juice comes in a moment later.Now the three have to track Preston down.Meanwhile, Preston has fun buying all sorts of stuff including his own house and even going on dates with a disguised bank lady who's really and FBI agent (who's trying to track the 3 bad guys down). He makes this person up named Mr. Macintosh who he works for and even plans a party for him on his birthday.But eventually things catch up (the money runs out, the bad guys get him).Overall, a pretty funny flick. Miguel Ferrer plays his role very good. If you enjoyed him in Another Stakeout, you'll love him here. He does all sorts of wicked crazy things.Rick Ducommun (the stressed out boss from Ghost in the Machine) plays a wonderful friendly chauffeur in this movie.

An Ok film.

Just saw it on the TV. I thought it was a pretty OK film.I think the scene with the sprouting(?) water was pretty cool. I don't know why people and critics are dissing it though. Come on now, it's only entertainment.

This could have been called "Home Alone Hits the Jackpot"

A young boy comes into a lot of money and promptly begins to live it up. Unfortunately, the man whose money it really is happens to be very bad. He wants his loot back. When he discovers who has the bucks, he begins trying to get it back. He keeps getting foiled by this little kid who is just lucky enough to keep from falling into the evil man's hands. Sounds familiar, I'll bet. Very predictable, not interesting at all. Come up with something a bit different, ok guys?

Adventurous Tale of a Boy, Crooks and $1,000,000 in Cash!

[CONTAINS SPOILERS] A criminal by the name of Carl Quigley escapes from prison one night and returns to his hideout to retrieve his stash of $1,000,000 he had heisted once, and they both will come into play a little bit later in our tale.
Preston Waters a depressed 10-year old. His brothers, Damien and Ralph have moved their business into his room, he also didn't have much fun at Butch's birthday party at Funland (Fun, Fun, Fun for everyone!) The reason he didn't enjoy himself was maybe thathe couldn't do much with only six tokens, or maybe because he doesn't even like Butch.
Preston then goes to the bank to open an account with $11 he got for his birthday. That same day, Quigley was in the bankpresident, Beiderman's office. They were in a money laundring process. When Quigley leaves, he runs into Preston's bike and begins to write a check to pay for it, but splits when he sees the cops, so Preston takes the blank check home. His parents yell at him because his bike is totalled. So with the help of his computer, Preston writes a check for $1,000,000, and at the bank, Beiderman thinks Preston is one of Quigley's men so he gives him the money. Preston soon goes on a spending spree. He buys a big house, a limousine with chauffer Henry.He also buys all kinds of things. Now back when this movie was made, 1994, $1,000,000 was ALOT of money and could buy alot of things, unlike today, 2002. Quigley finds out what happened and he, his henchman, Juice, and Beiderman go to look for Preston. Now you're probably wondering how a 10-year old kid could pull all this off, well, Nosey! He created an A.K.A name, Mr. Macintosh (got the name from his computer). Only problem, a pretty lady from the bank, Shay Stanley, needs to speak to Mr. Macintosh, but Preston takes her out to dinner and they talkabout him. They go for a dance in a restaurant spraying fountain.
It's going along great for Preston. He throws a big bash because it's Mr. Macintosh's birthday (and his). It's around that time that the shiot (SHEE-OT) really hits the fan. He's run out of money and he owes a debt, so the party is off. The crooks show up and Preston handles them Home Alone style. The FBI are also involved now, and Quigley decides to take over the identity of Macintosh to hide, but now he and his counterparts go to prison, so once again, Preston is a normal kid; this movie is pretty good. Brian Bonsall from Family Ties is in it, so is Karen Duffy, Tone Loc, Miguel Ferrer (son of Jose Ferrer), and Michael Faustino, brother of David Faustino from Married...with Children. So I recommend this film. -

VHS Blank check

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Quick thinking landed him a million bucks... now everybody's after it!

Preston Waters, a 11 years old boy,has problems with his parents and brothers specially because of money issues. He is crazy to have his own house and his own rules,since his brothers always stole his saved money and his parents neglect his wishes. One awful day, Preston was riding his bicycle; It was the same day that the villain of the story,Quigley, was trying to scape from the Police and accidentally ran the car over Preston's bike. Needing to be far away from the police, Quigley gives in a hurry, a check to cover the damages of Preston's bike. The problem was: It was a blank check! Preston is a clever boy and decides to have a high price on that check: 1 million dollars! All that money gives Preston things that he always wished for, like a mansion with pool,lots of toys, and even a limousine! The problems start to begin when the FBI and Quigley wants to know where the money is, making Preston in a hard situation and facing many problems.This movie was one of my favorites during my childhood. :)

Hideous

I don't know where that other guy on here was coming from, saying that this is an action movie that keeps you at the edge of your seats (Disney can't make action, the little kids would get scared). This movie goes way over the edge of reality, giving a little stupid kid one-million dollars (now who thinks that will ever happen just on accident?). It's another Disney thing where they go through and put a kid in an outlandish situation and make an unoriginal slapstick humor movie. In fact, when I told someone at the theater I work at that one new movie was directed by the guy who directed this one, he shuddered from remembering how horrible this movie really was.

This is the kind of movie that makes you want to throw up

Bad Actors, bad filming, choppy dialog, shallow characters, but then again it was a bad premise in the first place. Basically, an 11 year old who is bullied because he has very little money is given a blank check by a moronic criminal. Of course, the 11 year old happens to possess enough technology and intelligence to purchase a house, cash a check for 1,000,000 dollars, and even foil three bumbling idiots, reminiscent of the three stooges. Preston Blake is an annoying, obnoxious, boy, who decides that, when written a blank check by a complete stranger, he will take advantage of the situation as best as he can. In other words, he wanders into a bank, hands a teller a check he makes in his printer, and miraculously walks out with a million bucks in cash. Preston is also apparently capable of reaching incredible speeds on his bicycle, due to the fact that a man driving a Jaguar after Preston and his 10-speed could not catch him, even when Preston jumped a row of cars.Of course, with every hokey adventure movie, there has to be hot heroine. In this case our hot heroine is a child molesting FBI agent who dates the eleven year old Preston, and promises another date when he turns 17. However, the absolute worst aspect of this film was not its casting, nor its sloppy dialog, such as "The only other way I could think of skinning a cat is to stick a hose up it's butt and then pick up the fur". It was, rather, the entire fact that nobody in the entire film seemed to realize that the FBI does not give a damn about random people . What I have failed to explain is that Preston uses the alias "Macintosh" to masquerade as an entrepreneur of sorts. Of course, the FBI finds this intriguing and sends our young heroine after Preston, who uses his 11-year old wit to first scream when lobsters fall on his face, then treat her to hamburgers, finishing with a ridiculous romp through a cemented area where water jettison's from the ground. Our heroine fails to realize during this whole adventure that the criminal the FBI is pursuing is slipping and sliding right behind the two, as they make their way to Preston's limousine, complete with a 1-dimensional driver who never fails to provide cheap, 3rd rate laughs that the whole family can choke on.Overall: 1/10 is incredibly gracious for this film. I don't see how it only has a 4.4/10.

Quite silly!

I have quite a few thoughts I'd like to pour out into this review on the movie 'Blank Check'.

The reason it sucked was nothing good came out of it. The kid is very stupid and didn't save anything of his money! First he wanted at least a thousand, then he thought he could make a check for $1,000,000 which he successfully does, and by God, he buys a house for at least 2 hundred thousand, what the hell did he expect?! He expected his money to last forever?! His IQ was lower than an insect's.

Also, he wishes he had the money to go on some good rides at the fair, but totally forgets about it when he has the money later.

He runs away from his problem from not having his own room all because he can't stand up for himself. He's a loser in the film. He doesn't even have any friends. He had to rely on a big, overweight grown up for a friend. God, what about kids his own age?!

He spends it, (all of it in 6 days) like there's no tomorrow.. He buys all these clothes that are his size, but doesn't even think about the fact that he now has the mony to buy his own car when he gets older, or some good clothes like at least a good tuxedo for his high school prom., just silly!!

This is one kid with a sickly low self-esteem. Not only do his older brothers have THEIR own rooms, but he doesn't even stick up for his own privacy. I mean, why couldn't his brothers' equipment be in THEIR own room?!

This kid was a total loser....

Family Camedy

DVD came in great condition, and it also came before the expected delivery date. Amazon were great in tracking my package i knew were it was every minute of the day. And as i say in every review, I will Definatley be shopping with AMAZON again!!

A good movie

I don't have this movie, but I have seen it on the Disney Channel. This wasn't the greatest movie I have ever seen, but it was pretty good. I think the only reason I watch this movie is because I think Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall) is hot.

This is a Cute Movie That The Whole Family Can Watch Together!.

This is a movie that I didn't think I was going to like because I thought it was going to be really boring and cheesy but I surprised myself by actually liking it and I personally feel that Blank Check is a great movie for the enire family to watch together and I highly recommend it! A very cute movie!

Great For Kids, Painful for Adults

Animated and Live Action movies for kids usually fall into two categories. Movies that are enjoyable for Adults And Kids (Up, Wall E) or movies that kids enjoy but Adults roll there eyes at and struggle to sit through (G-Force, Blank Check, Any Disney Channel Movie) Now I'm obviously reviewing this movie from the perspective of someone who isn't its target audience but the movie isn't very enjoyable. Its obviously harder to put together a movie thats enjoyable for all ages but I didn't feel like the writers or director tried at all. This movie is very forgettable as well, and even now I'm struggling to remember anything memorable from this movie. While I have never actually seen Richie Rich this movie seems like it has very similar themes and ideas to that. Its a common childhood fantasy to become rich and get whatever you want so the movie does a good job at relating to its target audience and the idea behind it is certainly cute. But the movie has a predictable plot, poor writing and bad acting. Nothing about it is memorable or redeeming and even for a kids movie I just expected halfway decent something

Riot!

There is nothing funnier than a kid getting the better of adults and getting away with things like writing a check to himself for $1,000,000! Kids these days are SO clever - I wouldn't be a bit surpised if something like this really has happened - even here in Seattle (where I live). My uncle is a detective, I'll ask him if he's ever heard of something like this happening. Like I said, I wouldn't be a bit surpised if it has.

Strong scriptwriting and excellent cinematography - this is the type of movie that can put a Producer on the map!

This movie certainly makes you think of how closely you need to watch children. THEY'RE JUST SO DARN CUTE! Hard not to believe 'em....

Music?

This film would have been perfect if the music was available. But once again like "Saved", there is no soundtrack. Not a hint not a tune is easily available from this movie except for "I'll Wait" by taylor dayne & Bow wow wow's "I want candy". So for anyone out there who's pondering, trying to find the songs here is the only info i know of: The Scene where preston and henry are play boxing:song: "Wonderman" by right said fred. This is not available in the U.S. for sale, your best bet is amazon.com for a used copy of it on right said fred's "Sex and Travel" CD. The next probably most fun song is the movie was "Money (That what i want)" by Zendetta. This song is probably the hardest to locate. I'm still looking for it. The other songs in the film: "Wild Obsession" by L.A. Guns
"Flava" by MMC
"Proud To Be loud" by Marc Ferrari
"Gimme Back My Groove" by MMC
"Heaven" by Rymes With Orange
All songs i have listed are spelled correctly and are directly from the film's credits.
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What an unbelievably lame piece of garbage.

I almost called HBO and demanded my money back for the month just because they've been airing this movie. I can just see the movie execs sitting around going, "Okay, we need to come up with something that's just like Home Alone, only we'll add a bunch of cash for the kid, hire cut-rate actors, and oh yeah, we'll make it a lot less funny!"Okay, maybe not the last part, but that's basically what you've got here.
Not even worth seeing if someone else rents it. And as a movie for kids?
Forget it. I wouldn't let my kids see this, not necessarily because of bad-taste jokes, but because I wouldn't want them to say, "What were you thinking showing us that lame piece of garbage, Dad?!?!"

Like that could ever happen...

Terrible. I mean to think that a 12-year-old kid could posses a million dollars is outrageous to begin with. Then the fact that he pulled the whole trick off is also outrageous. Do you really think a kid could outsmart the big guy at the state bank? Give me a break. Then he buys a house! Worse yet, from the guy he stole the money from! Then he makes up this false identity and pulls the whole thing off in fashion. He doesn't even get caught. Then he gets kisses from special agent Karen Duffy! I thought there was no flirting on the job. At least not with a 12-year-old kid. Every time I see this movie on Disney, I just want to spit at the T.V. In my opinion, it is that awful. I don't know what is better, a blank check or a blank tape.

A Kid Review

In this movie a kid gets his bike run over by a guy who stole 1 Million Dollars. The guy who runs his bike over signs a check and leaves the amount blank, so that night he print on million dollars on and cashes it. After he cashes it he spends alot using Mr.Macantosh as the name he fakes. So when he has to pay someone he has no money left and the person who ran over his bike wanted the money back but when he finally caught him he had no money... I wont say any more becuse I guess I'm writing a book on the movie!!!!!!!!!!!

Brian Bonsall Fans...

Brian Bonsall, is without question, one of the cutest 'young boy' actors of all time. This movie rates '5 Stars', if for no other virtue it simply casts Brian Bonsall. However, the movie is reasonably amusing and entertaining otherwise. A must see for his fans and thank goodness it can now be collected on DVD. I would also recommend these other Brian Bonsall movies and hope that they all become available on DVD soon: 'Mikey', 'Desperate Motive', 'Father And Scout' 'Father Hood' and 'Lily In Winter'.

If not a guilty pleasure for you, expect a child's Disney movie (and nothing else)

The summary says it all. Blank Check is just one of those movies.The story follows Preston, a young boy who obsesses over money just as quickly as he spends it. One day Preston is riding his bike around, and thus the story begins. He's struck by a car, and although he's okay the driver hands him a blank check to avoid any trouble. Preston goes ahead and fills in one million dollars for that check and manages to cash it and purchase a house and several other excessively self-indulgent items. The man who hit Preston, Quigley, has a darker and more dangerous history and is far from happy when he realized one million is missing from a money scandal he's involved in. The story follows Preston as his greed with money leads him down a tunnel that grows only deeper and deeper. As he makes up lies for spending so much time at a mansion that his parents don't realize he owns and manipulates others around him, Quigley embarks on a journey to hunt down the man (or boy) that took his money.Blank Check is not realistic and is completely implausible in real life. We all have our own little guilty pleasure movies, whether its Spice Girls or Power Rangers or Rugrats or Blank Check. If this movie doesn't become one of those guilty pleasures, chances are you won't enjoy it and will find it shallow and worthy of several "Oh, yeah right"s. Needless to say, this is a good family film. Any parents out there should be able to put up with it and kids 12 and under will probably enjoy it.