Blank Check (1994)

By accident, the 12-year-old Preston is given a blank check and when he fills in $1,000,000 - he is able to get it! He is having fun spending the money, but the gangsters who owned it want it back...

Keywords: amusement-park, bank, bank-teller, banker, bicycle, birthday, birthday-party, boy, bully, car-accident

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Henry: Get yourself some flowers, good clothes, good food, a car, and learn how to use words like 'non-committal', and you are a date and a half, Man.

Henry: You wanna move that horse? What is this? Bonanza?

Henry: Preston Waters, you know what you've got? S-T-Y-L-E.::Preston Waters, Henry: Style!

Fred Waters: Here's six bucks. You can have fun all day on that.::Preston Waters: You don't get out much, do you Dad?

Sandra Waters: What do you want for your birthday?::Preston Waters: Money so I can pay to have Ralph and Damien knocked off.

Carl Quigley: I worked hard to steal that money and you went and gave it to some zit faced little kid?

Carl Quigley: What's with your voice, pal?::Comuter Voice: [over phone] Sore throat-itus.

Biderman: What do you expect?::Carl Quigley: What I expect is that if I give someone a million dollars and I come back the next day, I find the million dollars. That's what I expect!::Biderman: Carl, I'm not a magician okay.::Carl Quigley: So you can make it disappear but you can't make it reappear is that it?

[Fred Waters is determining how much to fill in the blank check Preston got from Grandma]::Sandra Waters: How much money did you get last year?::Preston Waters: A thousand.::Fred Waters: Ten dollars!::Preston Waters: Wait, Dad, what about inflation?::Fred Waters: Okay, I'll make it eleven.

[Carl, Bederman and Juice are at a waterslide looking for Preston. They're studying a surveilence photo of him]::Carl Quigley: See anyone that looks like him?::Juice: Yeah he looks like him. She looks like him. Oh look over there! There goes his little twin brother. You give me one picture and expect me to find him among all these kids? You must be crazy, I'm gonna get on the waterslide.