A bullied teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris' sidekick trains in martial arts to fulfill his dreams.A bullied teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris' sidekick trains in martial arts to fulfill his dreams.A bullied teen who fantasizes about being Chuck Norris' sidekick trains in martial arts to fulfill his dreams.
Julia Nickson
- Noreen Chan
- (as Julia Nickson-Soul)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaChuck Norris did this film as a favor to his brother Aaron Norris, who was the director.
- GoofsThe Frying Dragon team won the Weapons, Men's Fighting, and Breaking competitions and came in second in the Ladies' Kata. Yet somehow after that they manage to only be tied with Stone Dojo.
- Quotes
Randy Cellini: He started it.
Horn: [to Barry] If that's true, kid, you have less brains than a woodpecker on an aluminum telephone pole.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK video version has an entire scene removed, at the end of the film the nunchuck display that Barry Gabrewski does as part of the competition is missing due to censorship rules in the UK at that time. Additional cuts were made to other nunchaku and throwing stars footage, bringing the cuts total to 4 mins 38 secs.
- ConnectionsEdited into Saturday Night Live: John Goodman/The Pretenders (1994)
Featured review
This movie is a good one for Jonathan Brandis. His acting is good, and so is the way he plays his part. This movie really brings out the way Chuck Norris deals with kids in his movies. He spends the movie as an imaginary friend to Brandis, who is finding junior high life hard. "Norris" teaches him discipline and how to deal with bullies.
This is definitely not the usual Chuck Norris movie, as you can see from the cover. In his other movies, he usually plays some kind of heavy duty hitman with lots of weapons and sometimes armor. This time he has none of that. He is just a low-key character, and even when he finally fights Joe Piscopo in the end, he acts like he is just trying to show Brandis how its done.
This is definitely not the usual Chuck Norris movie, as you can see from the cover. In his other movies, he usually plays some kind of heavy duty hitman with lots of weapons and sometimes armor. This time he has none of that. He is just a low-key character, and even when he finally fights Joe Piscopo in the end, he acts like he is just trying to show Brandis how its done.
- Chris(Runner)
- Jun 24, 1999
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Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Kick and Kick Back
- Filming locations
- Houston, Texas, USA(Eleanor Tinsley Park)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $17,180,393
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $250,003
- Apr 11, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $17,180,393
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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