Blank Check

Blank Check (1994) is a Disney family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. The hook is pure wish-fulfilment: what happens when an eleven-year-old gets his hands on a blank check and nobody stops him from filling in the amount?

Preston Waters (Brian Bonsall) is sick of being the youngest in a penny-pinching family that teases him and counts every dollar. Then a money-laundering crook accidentally clips him with a car and buys the kid's silence with a blank check. Preston writes himself $1 million and goes wild: a mansion, a stretch limo, mountains of toys, his own pleasure palace. The catch is that the crook and the FBI are both closing in on the cash.

This one is a time capsule of the nineties, every grade-schooler's fantasy of unlimited allowance staged on a big, candy-colored scale. Adults may wince at the logic, but younger viewers eat it up. A breezy, nostalgic pick for a family movie night. Stream Blank Check (1994) online on iFILM.