First Kid

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First Kid
The original movie poster for First Kid.
Directed by	David Mickey Evans
Produced by	Roger Birnbaum Riley Kathryn Ellis
Written by	Tim Kelleher
Starring	Sinbad Brock Pierce Robert Guillaume Zachary Ty Bryan Timothy Busfield
Music by	Richard Gibbs Michael Jay
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	August 30, 1996
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

First Kid is a motion picture from Walt Disney Pictures that was released on August 30, 1996. It was directed by David Mickey Evans (also the director of The Sandlot). It stars Sinbad and Brock Pierce.

[edit] Plot

Sammy Simms (Sinbad) is a Secret Service agent assigned by his superior (Robert Guillaume) to protect President Paul Davenport's rebellious 13-year-old son Luke Davenport (Pierce) after Luke's behavior causes another agent (Timothy Busfield) to be fired. Simms sees this assignment as undesirable, but a possible stepping stone to protecting the President. He fails to connect with the boy at first, and Luke continues to misbehave, including an incident where he releases his pet snake into a White House party. After seeing Luke get beat up by the school bully (NOT Zachary Ty Bryan), Simms feels sorry for him - he had felt alone as a teenager, too - and they become friends. Simms, a former boxing champion, agrees to sneak Luke out against the wishes of the chief of security (Art LaFleur) and teach him how to fight.

Meanwhile, Luke agonizes over asking a pretty girl to the school dance, which he finally does successfully with Simms's help (angering the bully more). On the night of the dance, a backpack is left outside of the White House and Luke is not allowed to go due to the security risk. Simms pities him and, breaking the rules again, he takes him to the dance. There, the bully tries to attack Luke again while Simms is distracted, but this time Luke puts him down.

After that, Secret Service agents rush the school and retrieve Luke. Simms is relieved of command and not allowed to speak with Luke, who is crushed that his friend has apparently abandoned him. Luke, under house arrest and with a homing device attached to him, receives advice from an online friend on how to escape the White House and meet him at a local mall. Luke agrees, but it is revealed that his "friend" was in fact the previous agent charged with protecting him, and the agent kidnaps him. When Luke goes missing, Simms is given another chance to protect him, and with the help of a friend he quickly tracks Luke to the mall. In a standoff, the former agent says he was planning on returning Luke to the President so he could be a hero and get his job back, but now he wants to kill him instead. He blames Luke for making him lose his job, and even his wife. As other agents arrive, Simms takes a bullet in the arm that was intended for Luke and the man is subdued.

In the final scene of the film, Simms is offered Presidential duty, but he declines, opting to stay with his friend, Luke. Luke is then relieved of his last punishment.

[edit] Quotes

• "We didn't want to go, Dad. Dash made us go! It was Dash's idea!" -Luke, demonstrating what he'll say to his father if Agent Dash turns him in
• Dash: "You guys suck." Simms: "Hey, we suck! You hear that, Luke? We suck! Let's take a sucky left turn here."
• "I've already taken a bullet for the kid - how much worse could it get?" -Simms, right before getting hit by a hockey puck hit by Luke

[edit] Trivia

• When Luke was house arrested, the homing device was put on his wrist instead of his ankle, as it would be done in real life. Luke summoned his online friend to help him remove the homing device, and he moved the device onto his dog.
• In the secret room conneted to Luke's room, the Graffiti on the walls was written by Miranda Carter, a possible nod to the Child of President Jimmy Carter.

[edit] Locations

• The mall scenes were filmed at the Tysons Galleria in Tysons Corner, Virginia.

[edit] External links

• IMDb movie info