Annoying kids in film history

He actually grew up to be a nice looking young man. Wasn't a pervert so far as is known.

[quote]he looks like he'll grow up to be a pervert!

I rolled my eyes at this...

then I opened the pic and jumped back in my chair. C-R-E-E-P-Y!

Anytime I saw Cindy Brady, I wanted to slap her.

Sissy from Family Affair Dodie from My Three Sons

Kirby dragged me down.

Cindy grew up to be real trash, damn. Jamming with Kid Rock under a confederate and Trump flag.

Jake Lloyd was annoying as hell in The Phantom Menace, which is a film and not a television series, for those who are paying attention.

Richie Petrie

The kid really sounds like he's a schizo. And the movie definitely destroyed the career of Stephen Daldry and he has not yet recovered from this fiasco.

The kid from Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was awful, R9. Everything about that movie was wretched, so I can’t totally blame him, though.

Bobby Breen

Don't forget about ME!

Every child who appeared on "The Love Boat."

Those Trapp brats

I actually liked Scarpelli on ODAAT. One of the rare times in a insert and extra kid in a long standing sitcom trope.

Mara Wilson in the John Hughes remake of Miracle on 34th Street. If you want to see the difference between a good child actor and a bad one, watch seven year old Natalie Wood in the original. She is effortlessly natural and touching. Every time that Wilson kid comes onscreen, you just naturally want to slap her.

Young Judy Garland. Her speaking voice was the beginning of upspeak and the tonal quality was so syrupy and heavy handed. She ended lines with a thunk or a JUMP! She could deliver a bit of a deadpan line in a perfunctory way. But I find her voice and forced perkiness really annoying. Even in the Wizard of Oz. I was born in 1983. We didn't grow up watching that. I kinda don't see the big deal about her.

That obnoxious kid from "Indiana Jones and The Temple of Garish Disappointment." Kate Capshaw cemented the awfulness.

Hiss, r17. Hiss, hiss, hiss!

Judy was a classic. You have no taste, troll.

A classic annoying child actor. Garland was at best, OK. Who expected that thing to become a star?

She's an icon. The Wizard of Oz is the most seen film of all time. It's known worldwide. Your lazy trolling has no value.

My opinion is as good as yours, R22. No kid after 1990 has ever sat through the Wizard of Oz. We grow up. Modern kids find that movie lame as fuck. Can't make them sit thru it.

Nobody under 35 knows who Judy Garland is. Unless they gay. And then, like me - we still only see her limited appeal.

She was an icon no doubt. But that doesn't last forever.

Quinn Cummings in "The Goodbye Girl."

Poindexter Yothers

R18 wins

That's smirky kid who played Sandra Bullock's son in The Blind Side and that annoying kid who played Dee Wallace's son in Cujo. He actually had me rooting for Cujo

[quote]that annoying kid who played Dee Wallace's son in Cujo.

Surely you don't me ME???

Yes, R28 his screeching was truly annoying like having a screwdriver jammed into your eardrum

Ricky crying buckets while Faye barely restrained herself from going full Mommie Dearest on him.

Patty McCormack OWNS this thread.

SO artificial, so grating, and lacking any subtlety...

OP, the kid from Shane looks like he'll be a pervert? WTF is wrong with you - YOU'RE the pervert.

When Who's the Boss was still on but was getting a little long in the tooth, early '90s, I worked with this older woman and we'd talk about TV shows. Who's the Boss is one I didn't watch regularly, but I had seen enough of it to know who everyone was. She once expressed that Danny Pintauro had too small a role on the show. She asked, "Why don't they give him a girlfriend? He's old enough!" I didn't say what I was thinking. That story might have produced laughs, but maybe not the kind they wanted.

As for annoying film kids, I'm glad the Macauley Culkin reign was relatively brief. I found him smug even in the first Home Alone, worse and worse thereafter when "superstardom" set in. Kieran seems to be the most talented of the clan. He's quite good in Igby Goes Down and Margaret.

Alfred Lutter as the annoying child from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. He basically spends the whole movie just screaming in that shrill tone, or making life harder for Burstyn's character despite all the sacrifices she is making so he can have a better life. Running away, talking back to her, being a brat, getting into trouble.

Both the character AND the performance had me seriously considering a vasectomy after I finished it.

Patty McCormack is FABULOUS in The Bad Seed.

Jesus Christ, r8, I didn't think it was possible to hate him more

All the white kids in Spanish and Italian movies who look like macaque monkey and happen to be the sons of the directors/producers.

The little boy in Fatal Attraction.

This psychopath

Rhoda Penmark and Tommy Hyatt were great characters who added to the story.

The others not so much.

Opie

That fucking “the human head weighs 8 pounds” brat from Jerry Maguire.

Shirley Temple. I only enjoy her interactions with adult black entertainers. The tone shifts somehow and becomes entertaining. I know that's counterintuitive but there it is. Bill Robinson genius I suppose.

R7, I looked up Jake Lloyd, he's a paranoid schizophrenic and got into trouble with the law.

Katherine Healy in 6 Weeks, she was annoying, but I really like her. She also starred in one of Kurt Vonnegut’s wife’s photo essay book for kids.

Ah, Opie was great as a kid.

Yesterday I saw an Adam-12 rerun that featured Kirby Furlong as a diabetic kid who ran away without his meds because his parents wouldn't let him have a dog (they had secretly bought him a dog but he didn't know that). Anyway, it was pre-Mame and he was charming in a part that should have been maudlin.

I DETESTED Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun. He was an awful kid and I was going he would be killed

The little blind girl in The Langoliers

Andy Hardy always irritated me. Even with Judy Garland. I don't dislike Mickey Rooney, I liked him in National Velvet and The Black Stallion. But those movies just made my ass itch. I didn't like the kid.

Carrie(s)

The kid from The Babadook. Even his mother hated him.

Alejandro fro Chop Shop. One of the most annoying kid actors I’ve ever seen.

I don't know how many people saw or remember this movie, but there was an '80s Sylvester Stallone vehicle called Over the Top, about a competitive arm wrestler trying to forge a relationship with his estranged young son. The son had been in the custody of the now-dead mother's rich father (Robert Loggia), who was the villain.

The kid who played the son had been on one of the daytime soaps before, so he wasn't just plucked from obscurity, but he was grating in the extreme. Maybe he was supposed to be playing a brat at the outset, but he played brat on 10 when maybe 7 (with some layers so we would still like him) would have sufficed.

He got merciless reviews (unusual, because most critics go easy on very young actors) and won Razzies for both Worst New Star AND Worst Supporting Actor.

That little Sheldon character. Something tells me he's not acting.

I loved Ke Huy Quan in Temple of Doom and Goonies, R18. I was a little younger and remember wanting to be friends with him. And he's so good in Everything Everywhere All at Once. I love that he has had this career comeback.

Reading through the comments, I think it's funny how threads like this pretty much inadvertently reveal which generation you're from.

The entirely talentless kid "actor" from the Burt Reynolds lame snoozefest movie Cop and a Half, completely unfunny, not cute, not Sweet, not charming, I wanted to throw that stupid kid under a speeding semi truck, he was that awful, watch a few minutes of it, You'll see how bad the kid really is...terrible. :-/

Every kid in “The Ten Commandments”.