In Disney's The Kid Bruce Willis takes a holiday from his tough-guy roles to play Russ Duritz, a grouchy PR consultant who has lost touch with his inner child and spends his days bullying his secretary and being mean to his sweet-tempered girlfriend (Emily Mortimer). Then a rather podgy child appears who turns out to be Russ himself, eight years old, newly arrived by a trick of time-travel never really explained. In the course of some amusing scenes the boy persuades Russ of the error of his ways, so that by the end he even likes dogs (hating them being an infallible sign of a bad character). Willis shows, not for the first time (remember his early TV series Moonlighting?), that he has a gift for comedy and it's a pleasant hour and a half; though there are few really big laughs, kids of all ages will probably like it. -- Edward Buscombe