10 Movies That Aged Badly For Surprising Reasons
4. Blank Check (1994)
Blank Check is the mystical story of a early-'90s computer geek with a cheapskate father, named Preston. Preston's parents are oblivious to the fact that Preston is bullied in school. After the kid gets hit by an escape bank robber's car - the robber gives him a blank check to get a new bank before the cops catch him. When Preston prints the check up for One Million Dollars he gets mistaken fro the robber's bag man who is supposed to pick up the laundered cash from the robber's inside man at the bank.
Preston proceeds to spend all but a few hundred dollars of the million within one week. Brewster's Millions? Eat your heart out. Cue angry villains, a Home Alone-esque chase scene between an eleven year old boy and crew of prison-hardened bank robbers who are oddly unwilling to kill a child for a million dollars. Common '90s Disney fare, to be sure. Lessons are learned, the villain unwittingly confesses to not only his crimes but also to Preston's crimes, and Preston's family learns to not be such big a-holes. So what could possibly be wrong with this film?
Preston courts the veteran FBI agent, disguised as a bank teller, through the whole movie and at the end she rewards him for helping bring down the robber and his evil group with a little kiss. Not a peck on the cheek, though - she gives him a straight-up kiss on the lips. Sure, its not open mouth or anything, but she's thirty-two and he's twelve. It's that little ending scene that puts some cringe to an otherwise mediocre and forgettable kid's film.