Mischievous Children
by kill-the-boxtrolls | created - 14 Apr 2011 | updated - 01 Feb 2012 | PublicThis list contains a list of children whom are attempting to cause mischief or wreak hovoc.
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1. Despicable Me (2010)
PG | 95 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Gru, a criminal mastermind, adopts three orphans as pawns to carry out the biggest heist in history. His life takes an unexpected turn when the little girls see the evildoer as their potential father.
Directors: Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud | Stars: Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews
Votes: 584,593 | Gross: $251.51M
Three orphan girls display their playful part of them by subsequently showing curiosity and envy of their new dream-like home.
2. The Little Rascals (1994)
PG | 82 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Alfalfa is wooing Darla and his "He-Man-Woman-Hating" friends attempt to sabotage the relationship.
Director: Penelope Spheeris | Stars: Travis Tedford, Bug Hall, Brittany Ashton Holmes, Kevin Jamal Woods
Votes: 56,226 | Gross: $52.13M
Watch out for the little rascals. These babies can do anything to cause you trouble.
3. Cats Don't Dance (1997)
G | 75 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Danny, an ambitious singing and dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.
Director: Mark Dindal | Stars: Scott Bakula, Jasmine Guy, Natalie Cole, Ashley Peldon
Votes: 8,493 | Gross: $3.56M
This has a child in it who plots to cause havoc with the performers and film makers alike.
4. Dennis the Menace (1993)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family
When his parents must go out of town on business, Dennis stays with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. He is driving Mr. Wilson crazy, but he is just trying to be helpful, even to the thief who has arrived in town.
Director: Nick Castle | Stars: Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble, Joan Plowright, Christopher Lloyd
Votes: 64,916 | Gross: $51.27M
He just likes to get his way in front of people and usually when they're not looking.
5. Problem Child (1990)
PG | 81 min | Comedy, Family
A young boy just short of a monster is adopted by a loving man and his wacky wife. The laughs keep coming as the boy pushes them to the limits.
Director: Dennis Dugan | Stars: Michael Oliver, John Ritter, Jack Warden, Gilbert Gottfried
Votes: 33,061 | Gross: $53.47M
This kid would do anything to have you annoyed that you just want to send him back to the orphanage.
6. The Parent Trap (1998)
PG | 128 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.
Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix
Votes: 154,940 | Gross: $66.31M
These children get their way by toturing one of their family about to get married and try to get it into the right place.
7. Rugrats (1991–2003)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, Phil and Lil and Susie find themselves in a slew of adventures - both real and imaginary. Baldly go where no baby's every gone before as the Rugrats turn the ordinary into the extraordinary every day.
Stars: Elizabeth Daily, Christine Cavanaugh, Nancy Cartwright, Kath Soucie
Votes: 38,506
Watch out for them. These babies could annoy you by eagerly walking on the catwalk to get their way; things they just don't understand. Especially with the evil Angelica around.
8. A League of Their Own (1992)
PG | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Two sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amid their own growing rivalry.
Director: Penny Marshall | Stars: Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Lori Petty, Madonna
Votes: 121,129 | Gross: $107.53M
There's a boy in it who wants to cause trouble usually. Just drives cars, steals things and slings them around.
9. Madeline (1998)
PG | 88 min | Comedy, Family
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer | Stars: Frances McDormand, Nigel Hawthorne, Hatty Jones, Ben Daniels
Votes: 8,046 | Gross: $29.77M
There's a boy in there who immediatly causes mischief and usually annoyance to the children it it. He pretends to kill a mouse and scares the girls. Also, the main character could cause trouble too, by running to a circus, be's awkward on purpose and claims that everything is hers.
10. On the 2nd Day of Christmas (1997 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
After they are caught in the act, a by-the-book department store security guard is assigned as the custodian of a pickpocketing duo.
Director: James Frawley | Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Pratt, David Hewlett
Votes: 909
This girl just steals things.
11. The Spy Next Door (2010)
PG | 94 min | Action, Comedy, Family
Former C.I.A. spy Bob Ho takes on his toughest assignment to date: looking after his girlfriend's three kids, who haven't exactly warmed to their mom's beau.
Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Billy Ray Cyrus, Madeline Carroll
Votes: 46,938 | Gross: $24.27M
These kids who are babysitted just want to run around and usually don't follow directions.
12. Codename: Kids Next Door (2002–2008)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The adventures of a group of ten-year-old friends who fight for the right to do everything that adults restrict from them.
Stars: Ben Diskin, Dee Bradley Baker, Lauren Tom, Cree Summer
Votes: 22,755
These kids... even though their main plot is to defeat their enemies usually go to particular places and just like to cause trouble and usually by tricks.
13. The Boondocks (2005–2014)
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Action, Comedy
Brothers Huey and Riley Freeman experience a culture clash when they leave Chicago to move in with their grandfather in the suburbs.
Stars: Regina King, John Witherspoon, Gary Anthony Williams, Cedric Yarbrough
Votes: 35,751
They usually just sneak around and do stuff. They're sneaky...
14. It Takes Two (1995)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Alyssa and Amanda are two little girls who are identical, but complete strangers, that accidentally meet one day.
Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen
Votes: 24,885 | Gross: $19.47M
Pretty much like the Parent Trap... these girls want to stop a girl from marrying the wrong person because they're jealous; and usually cause trouble everywhere.
15. Home Alone (1990)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Family
An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.
Director: Chris Columbus | Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
Votes: 653,073 | Gross: $285.76M
This boy wants to set traps on some thugs while he's... home alone.
16.
The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode:
Eloise at the Plaza
(2003)
TV-G | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Eloise is an imaginative little girl living in New York City with her nanny, going on various adventures.
Director: Kevin Lima | Stars: Julie Andrews, Jeffrey Tambor, Kenneth Welsh, Debra Monk
Votes: 2,255
Eloise has always been causing trouble. She uses her spy to do something as a plot and just runs around the plaza everywhere.
17. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
G | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think.
Directors: Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich | Stars: Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 979,450 | Gross: $289.92M
She was OK in the second half of the movie, but mainly she just fights others, run away to look at things and scares the people in a restraunt and the city alike.
18. Fanboy & Chum Chum (2009–2014)
TV-Y7 | 24 min | Animation, Short, Action
Two children dress up as superheroes and create chaos wherever they go.
Stars: David Hornsby, Nika Futterman, Jeff Bennett, Wyatt Cenac
Votes: 4,601
These kids usually roam around their schooles and particularly places causing trouble and sommetimes makes everyone involve in it. Kids, don't try this at home.
19. Everybody Hates Chris (2005–2009)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A young African-American teen attempts to survive with his dysfunctional family and his all-white school in the 1980s.
Stars: Terry Crews, Tichina Arnold, Tequan Richmond, Imani Hakim
Votes: 41,849
Usually these kids want to go around and get into stuff they're not supposed to, takes pictures of different things and sometimes mess with their parents and makes them angry getting into stuff too old for them.
20. Bratz: Babyz the Movie (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 66 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The Bratz Babyz go for Daycare in a shopping mall and one of the puppies are kidnapped.
Director: Davis Doi | Stars: Ashleigh Ball, Kathleen Barr, Lisa Ann Beley, Alexandra Carter
Votes: 438
These babies usually just wreak havoc accidently and causes trouble as they roam the mall and get into the movies and beauty shops without paying for them.
21. Making Fiends (2008–2023)
TV-Y7 | Animation, Comedy, Family
An evil little girl's plans to control her town with homemade monsters becomes uprooted by another little girl that sees happiness in everything, and sees her as her best friend.
Stars: Aglaia Mortcheva, Amy Winfrey, Peter Merryman, Dave Wasson
Votes: 497
There's a girl in here who plots to kill another girl whom wants to be her friend. She makes things that turn into monsters and plots to destroy the girl, but usually she just defeats them by chance.
22. Matilda (1996)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A girl gifted with a keen intellect and psychic powers uses both to get even with her callous family and free her kindly schoolteacher from the tyrannical grip of a sadistic headmistress.
Director: Danny DeVito | Stars: Danny DeVito, Rhea Perlman, Mara Wilson, Embeth Davidtz
Votes: 174,720 | Gross: $33.08M
She just sneaks around. But she has magic powers so she uses her magic powers to get around with things and tries to trick a bully in her school.
23. Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams, Gia Mantegna, Quinn Shephard
Votes: 12,429 | Gross: $16.65M
These kids just want to get around with things and fights with others to get their way.
24. Runt Page (1932)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A little girl falls asleep as her parents and their friends discuss the film "The Front Page", and she dreams about reporters, a cop, and an escaped convict (all played by children).
Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: The Baby Stars, Billy Bletcher, Georgie Smith, Shirley Temple
Votes: 164
These kids just usually cause trouble by throwing things around and using stuff that belong to the bigger people.
25. The Miracle Worker (1962)
Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama
The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory, Inga Swenson
Votes: 20,515 | Gross: $5.45M
Even though she's blind, she throws tantrums, wreaks a dinning table and slaps people with a doll on purpose.
26. Son of the Mask (2005)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
Director: Lawrence Guterman | Stars: Jamie Kennedy, Traylor Howard, Alan Cumming, Liam Falconer
Votes: 59,327 | Gross: $17.02M
This baby wants to jump off the couches and walls, get hyper and usually use his magic powers to get his way and through things.
27. South Park (1997– )
TV-MA | 22 min | Animation, Comedy
Follows the misadventures of four irreverent grade-schoolers in the quiet, dysfunctional town of South Park, Colorado.
Stars: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Mona Marshall
Votes: 406,140
These kids usually want to go around tripping up their teachers in school and everything. They also seem to play around in public, outside, wears costumes, cusses and everything.
28. Bebe's Kids (1992)
PG-13 | 72 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
To impress his new girlfriend, a man agrees to look after her friend's kids, only to find that they are uncontrollably rambunctious.
Director: Bruce W. Smith | Stars: Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Robin Harris, Wayne Collins
Votes: 5,520 | Gross: $8.44M
These kids go to a theme park and cause a havoc. They steal things, break the rules and wreak havoc by breaking down shops and manipulating a pirate ship.
29. The Sandlot (1993)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.
Director: David Mickey Evans | Stars: Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Art LaFleur, Patrick Renna
Votes: 102,451 | Gross: $32.42M
During a baseball game, the children in there love to trip up adults. Either by batting balls in their shins, splashing waters onto them, and jumping over tables at a party to catch a dog.
30. Spy School (2008)
PG | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Doubting Thomas is the story of a twelve year old boy known for telling tall tales who overhears a plot to kidnap the President's daughter. When he goes public with his story, no one believes him, and he is forced to save her on his own.
Director: Mark Blutman | Stars: Forrest Landis, AnnaSophia Robb, Rider Strong, Lea Thompson
Votes: 1,710
The kid in there LOVES to scare people by tricking them with other things, steals things and sneaks into schools and other people's houses.
31. Johnny Bravo (1997–2004)
TV-Y7 | 30 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The misadventures of a dumb blond egomaniac who severely overestimates his own manliness and his supposed "success" with women.
Stars: Jeff Bennett, Brenda Vaccaro, Mae Whitman, Tom Kenny
Votes: 39,321
The kid in there loves to cause trouble to her neighbor next door.
32. Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993 TV Movie)
TV-Y7 | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.
Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman, Phil Fondacaro
Votes: 3,882
These twins are on a mission to break a spell as they become witches and love to meddle and manipulate people as much as other witches do.
33. Summer's End (1985)
30 min | Short, Drama, Family
10-year-old Kathy prefers pigtails to curls and runs away for the day to avoid a hair appointment. While she's off having adventures with her best pal Jeeter, her parents clash over how to ... See full summary »
Director: Beth Brickell | Stars: Joy Chesser, Radha Delamarter, Lisa Foster, Jerry Franks
Votes: 21
A girl fights to not be a girl, especially with her obsessive pigtails.
34. Full House (1987–1995)
TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A widowed sportscaster raises his three daughters with assistance from his rock and roll brother-in-law and madcap best friend.
Stars: Bob Saget, John Stamos, Dave Coulier, Candace Cameron Bure
Votes: 63,123
These children [are] quite like the ones in "Despicable Me", you know, always willing to get their way, gets easily nervous or excited, and seem to be EXTREMELY good at getting in trouble.
35. Gakuen Alice (2004– )
25 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
Best friends Mikan and Hotaru are separated when Hotaru is scouted by a special school called "Alice Academy." Mikan determines to enroll too but Alice Academy is a mysterious place.
Stars: Rie Kugimiya, Romi Park, Sakiko Uran, Sarah Hauser
Votes: 271
The children who work with magical powers (quite similar to Matilda) seduce and play with other children in schools and also overpowering their powers with it.
36. Baby's Day Out (1994)
PG | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After three kidnappers lose the baby they have kidnapped, both the cops and kidnappers go looking for the baby.
Director: Patrick Read Johnson | Stars: Lara Flynn Boyle, Joe Mantegna, Joe Pantoliano, Brian Haley
Votes: 55,688 | Gross: $16.67M
While getting chased by a group of bad-ass thugs, this clever baby will trip them up everywhere he goes!
37. Hugo (2011)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In 1931 Paris, an orphan living in the walls of a train station gets wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Lee, Ben Kingsley
Votes: 336,908 | Gross: $73.86M
38. Candy Candy (1976–1979)
TV-Y | 30 min | Animation, Drama, Family
The life of Candy, a little orphan girl, and her friends.
Stars: Minori Matsushima, Kazuhiko Inoue, Makio Inoue, Taeko Nakanishi
Votes: 1,920
She may be lonely, she may be an orphan, but this optimistic girl is a complete tomboy with a taste for mischief and energy. Also, there is a couple of kids who are quite prankish, like for example: the boy who isn't potty-trained.
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