Curly Sue
“A funny story about a family... And the little girl who started it.”
Bill is a penniless drifter who scams strangers out of just enough money to feed himself and his partner in crime, an orphan girl known as Curly Sue. Bill and Curly Sue target Grey, a yuppie lawyer, but their con takes an unexpected turn when the successful woman begins to like the ramshackle duo. But there's one problem—Grey's jealous, conniving boyfriend, Walker.
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Studio
Hughes Entertainment
Language
en
Status
Released
How Curly Sue performed
Budget
N/A
Worldwide Gross
$33.7M
Gross Profit
N/A
Return
N/A
Opening Wknd (est.)
$5M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Bill Dancer
Jim Belushi
Bill Dancer
Curly Sue
Alisan Porter
Curly Sue
Grey Ellison
Kelly Lynch
Grey Ellison
Walker McCormick
John Getz
Walker McCormick
Tesio
Steve Carell
Tesio
Bernard Oxbar
Fred Thompson
Bernard Oxbar
Secretary
Edie McClurg
Secretary
Trina
Viveka Davis
Trina
Anise Hall
Gail Boggs
Anise Hall
Drifter
Ralph Foody
Drifter
Dr. Maxwell
Burke Byrnes
Dr. Maxwell
Mrs. Arnold
Barbara Tarbuck
Mrs. Arnold
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