An action-packed slog

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

With Justine Bateman's success on "Family Ties", NBC decided that two Batemans were better than one and came up with this vehicle for her younger brother, Jason. Young Bateman plays a teen con-artist who helps support his single mother through money making schemes such as selling cheat sheets at school, etc. His little racket is threatened when he gets a new neighbor - an adult version of himself. Things go from worse to worser when the neighbor begins dating his mother & also becomes a teacher at his school. It becomes a chess match as the two constantly try to outsmart/outwit each other. The neighbor was played by David Garrison, a few years before he would take on the role of another neighbor from hell - Steve Rhodes on "Married... With Children". The show was buried on Wednesday nights, a bad night for the Peacock Network, where even "Family Ties" struggled before drawing the Golden Ticket of Cosby as it's lead-in on Thursdays. NBC wasted little time finding another vehicle for Bateman, as "The Hogan Family" would premiere a year or so later

I never saw this show when it was on the air (I was four years old at the time), but a coworker has this on DVD (I think it's an "unofficial" copy). Let me just say right now that this series ranks amongst the very best of all the great 80's sitcoms.Everyone seems to be in love with the Dregs Of Humanity episodes, and for good reason. But they are all great in their own way. It's a shame that they didn't allow this series to go on.In the end, please see this if you can. Please bug the heck out of the studios or the powers that be for this to get its long-deserved proper release. Then we can all sit back and think of what could've been had this great show been allowed to grow.

I was only nine but I totally remember being fascinated by this show. I thought Jason Bateman was so cute and funny. Lol, I used to think he would make the perfect boyfriend. But I agree the show was way before it's time. I too would pay to see all of the episodes again. It was definitely my favorite show of the 80's. It's great to know there are people out there who share the same sentiment as I do on the show. I heard there is a video store in Burbank, CA that sells/rents every single TV show and pilot there every was in existences at this store. I wonder how true that is. Well, maybe it's not in Burbank but I know it's in the Los Angeles area. Unfortunately I haven't seen his new show Arrested Development because I missed all of last season.

I'm involved in a thread on another board, we're posting 70's & 80's sitcoms back and forth. I don't think any of the posters are hip to this one. I was upset when this show was cancelled, it was the one show that I never missed. It was so long ago, that I can't remember too many episodes. Let's see, the soccer one when the large dude was called The Wall (The goalie on my hockey game is called this). The episode when they're controlling skeletons, making them into a rock band. I'll be looking for it, maybe I'll start a petition about it.