If you loved Getting Even with Dad, try Ernest Goes to Jail

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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Getting Even with Dad

1994 · dir. Howard Deutch

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Ernest Goes to Jail

1990 · dir. John Cherry

What they share

Theysit in Comedy / Crime / Family territory. If that's the register that drew you to Getting Even with Dad, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Ernest Goes to Jail is

Ernest gets himself into a jam, naturally. A bumbling janitor is mistaken for a crime boss. It predictably ends in chaos.

If you loved Getting Even with Dad, try Ernest Goes to Jail

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