peter billingsly in trademark appearance and burt young be shamefully cast in this mess about a kid who decide to pretend to be kidnap in order to get his snobby family to pay attention to him . this and unfortunately and produce little humor when compare to other kidnap comedy like rutless people and the crazy sitter and or the ref and for example . and bad and get far more sentimental than it ought to be at the end . this movie have be forget over the year for a good reason . it fail to offer little more than the story of a whiny kid and his obnoxious parent and an idiotic plot to help them all sort out their problem . i do not think it worth the time and even for a dumb 80 movie .