Ben denies it and advises Junior to just be himself, and the two hug. Junior asks if Ben will hold him to all he said about being nice. Ben then reveals he survived because the bullet hit the prune. Thinking he has died, Junior apologizes for everything he has done, promises not to be naughty again, and says he loves Ben however, Ben wakes up and says he loves Junior too, much to Junior's joy. Martin is arrested, but not before shooting Ben in the chest. Eventually, the suitcase flies over the wall, and lands in the back of a pig farmer's truck heading to Mexico. Flo, locked in a suitcase, tells Ben she wants a divorce. Martin drives away, but the Healys are catching up. Junior is rescued after escaping from Martin through a trapeze act, and he calls Ben "Dad" for the first time. Ben catches up with Martin and Junior at the circus. He then commandeers Roy’s SUV and drives tracks in his yard.
Enraged, Ben activates the camera while Big Ben is ranting and he ends up mooning the camera. Ben goes to Big Ben for an offer but he refuses.
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Ben first sees this as good riddance to both Flo and Junior, but he starts to realize Junior isn't as bad as he initially seemed a series of Junior's drawings depict children and adults who mistreated him as deformed monsters with hostile surroundings but depict Ben as a happy man in a pleasant background, revealing that Junior truly valued him as a father and that Junior's behavior was simply a reaction to the mistreatment he had received most of his life.Īlso finding the prune intact, Ben undertakes a mission to rescue Junior. The following morning, Martin kidnaps Flo and Junior by pretending to take her on their honeymoon, and him on a family outing, leaving a ransom note for Ben. Flo sees this as a chance to get rid of Junior and sleeps with Martin while Ben listens from the other room. Martin escapes from prison and arrives at the house, with Junior asserting Martin is his uncle. However, Ben absent-mindedly leaves his keys in the car, and Junior drives through Big Ben's sporting goods store, leading to Ben's individual retirement account being seized by his father to pay for damages. Peabody that Junior was returned 30 times, Ben decides to love him, which no one else has ever done before. Horrified, Ben decides to return Junior however, after hearing from Mr. Finally, Junior wins a Little League game by belting rival players with a bat for bullying him. Ben gives Junior his lucky prune, which his grandfather gave him shortly before he died, and which he considered a special bond. He then sabotages Lucy Henderson's 6th birthday party, after she snobbily bans him from her magic show for touching her presents. Next, Junior ruins a camping trip with Ben and Flo’s neighbor Roy and his family by urinating on the campfire and luring in a bear to scare his children. Junior throws Flo's cat at Big Ben and they both fall down the stairs and are injured. Junior's bedroom catches fire when he shorts out the clown lights, and Big Ben calls him "The Devil". Shortly after Ben and Flo bring Junior home, Big Ben visits them and is shocked that they adopted. The film is interspersed with scenes of an imprisoned Martin looking to escape and meet Junior.
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He often causes chaos, and is pen pals with serial killer Martin Beck, the "Bow-Tie Killer". However, he is a mischievous and incorrigible child. Wanting a child, Ben seeks help from adoption agent Igor Peabody, who presents him and Flo with a cute 7-year-old boy named Junior. Meanwhile, Ben and his wife, Flo, cannot conceive and visit a fertility doctor who states Flo is infertile. Although Ben has worked for his father for ten years with nothing in return, his father plans on selling the company to the Japanese rather than giving it to his son, considering his son "too nice" to be his heir. Ben Healy is a kind man working for his father, "Big Ben" Healy, a successful, but tyrannical sporting goods dealer running for mayor.