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Shenanigan | Uncle
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Budget 19,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 7,411,659 USD
Martin Short's co-stars are usually standing on boxes and next to slightly oversize props.
The writers of the film, Steven Kampmann and William Porter, were so embarrassed by the final cut that they used pseudonyms as onscreen credit, as well as the film's marketing and publicity.
Martin Short, who plays 10 year-old Clifford, was 37 years old during initial filming in 1990 and age 40 during the priest bookend sequences filmed in 1993.
Although planned for a 1991 release, this was one of several films released by Orion Pictures in 1994, just before their bankruptcy.
The movie was re-edited and re-shot before its 1994 theatrical release, including bookend scenes with Martin Short as an elderly Clifford, now a reformed priest, who tries to prevent a boarding school student, played by Ben Savage, from running away and telling a story to him about his mischievous childhood. These scenes were shot around 1993, three years after the original shoot was completed.
"Clifford: Uncle Martin, save me...! Uncle Martin? Martin Daniels: I'm thinking it over! Clifford: Please? I'm scared! Martin Daniels: Well, I'm scared about what might happen if I save you. You know, I should do mankind a tremendous favor and let that dinosaur eat you. I mean, who knows what horrors you might unleash, or what if you got your hands on some plutonium? [mocking Clifford] Martin Daniels: "I just made the bestest nuclear bomb in the whole wide world.""
"Martin Daniels: [gets furious again] I suppose Sarah's father also put the hot sauce in my drink! Clifford: That I don't know. Martin Daniels: You don't? Clifford: No. Martin Daniels: [yells] You don't? Clifford: No. Martin Daniels: You *don't*? Clifford: No! Martin Daniels: [yells] You have no idea who did that? Clifford: I would suspect the bartender. Theory. Martin Daniels: [screams] Well, you know, I would suspect someone else! Now who could that be? Clifford: If you are about to say what I think you're about to say, then I don't wanna hear it! Because Sarah Davis loves you, Uncle Martin. She wouldn't do that. Oh, she has problems with you, but every relationship goes with that. [Martin frowns incredulously] Clifford: Oh... oh, y-you don't think it was me. [tries to grab him] Clifford: Oh, Uncle Martin... Martin Daniels: Ah! [pulls away from him; screams again] Martin Daniels: And I had to be made naked in the jail! I was strip searched! I was humiliated! Clifford: [sobs] I know. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I made the tape. Oh God, it was wrong, Uncle Martin. Then why did I do it? Why? I think I know why. Because I was so angry at you for having promised that you would take me to Dinosaur World and then breaking that promise, Uncle Martin. Martin Daniels: [yells] What is it with you and Dinosaur World? It's a sick thing! It's like you're obsessed with this Dinosaur World! Clifford: I believe that Dinosaur World is the only place where a boy like me can be happy."
