Dennis the Menace (1993) poster
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Dennis the Menace

FamilyComedy

Directed by Nick Castle

Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town. From TMDB

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Dennis the Menace is a 1993 family comedy film, directed by Nick Castle, starring Walter Matthau, Mason Gamble and Joan Plowright.

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  • Steve Lieber @stevelieberart.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 3, 2024

    Every once in awhile I remember that Don Rickles & Betty White played Mr & Mrs Wilson in a Dennis the Menace movie.

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  • Skavau @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 6, 2025

    'Dennis the Menace' Actor Jay North Dead at 73.

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  • Pop Arena @poparena.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 12, 2026

    I'm not sure I'd call it a flex, but I was actually in a test audience screening for the 1993 Dennis the Menace movie with Walter Matthau. I would have been five. Gave it a thumbs up.

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  • Lotus Prince of Darkness @lotusprince.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Not a movie thing, but: On March 12, 1951, the US witnessed the debut of the newspaper comic Dennis the Menace. Also on March 12, 1951, the UK witnessed the debut of a completely unrelated newspaper comic, also called Dennis the Menace.

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  • Jaina @jainasolo.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    It's from the Dennis the Menace movie from the 90s.

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  • Lego Dolemite 🏴🚩 @psychoalpastor.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2025

    Insert a movie into another movie Dennis the Menace II Society

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  • rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.comBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    Random TIL for the day, inadvertently via @zachleat.com's post here www.zachleat.com/web/history-... - the US had a _different_ Dennis the Menace, which explains the 1993 movie that really confused me with it's visuals as a teen. Only took a few decades to work it out 🤦

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  • Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    Combining Christmas with the 25th anniversary of the Bond film that solidified my fandom. Where Brosnan fucks hard, swallows so much Thames water it's amazing Dennis the Menace didn't have to do a mercy killing and blows up the Millenium Dome. All in the first ten minutes.

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  • Derrick Rushlo @derkawesome.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 30, 2026

    Bad Moon has a dog, a former Dennis the Menace, and Eddie minus his cruisers. I cannot say this is a great movie but it is a werewolf movie with a werewolf. So, that’s a plus. Tonight at 10 EST. #FrightClub

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  • Oogie Boogie Pax @janetpax531.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    I figured since they already had John Bellis as Thomas and John Hollis as Gordon in the recast cut of TATMR, why not John Baddeley as Edward? I mean, it'd be cool if a TUGS VA was on board with the film. And I figured the Colonel (Dennis the Menace would be a good fit. Enjoy!

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  • spoonshiro @spoonshiro.comBluesky · Jan 22, 2026

    Ocean. There's perhaps no company more closely associated with mediocre licensed tie-in games in the '80s and '90s. They made and published tons of them, grabbing up every movie license they could on the cheap. Everything from Dennis the Menace to the Untouchables to Waterworld to the Flintstones.

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  • 🍫GravitySpookyAgent🎃 ≽^⎚⩊⎚^≼ @gravitysecretagent.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Flintstones: Has been reduced to nothing but gummy vitamins, cereal, and cameos. Dennis The Menace: Newspaper comics, that's it. Woody Woodypecker: Used to in the 70s was shown before feature films, had a bad CGI movie and was universal orlando studio's mascot, now forgotten. Not forever.

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  • The Mutant Fam @themutantfam.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2025

    #BadMoon! The movie where Star 80 and Streets of Fire try to protect Dennis the Menace from lycanthropy. #TheLastDriveIn #MutantFam Bryan/ @manwithpez.bsky.social

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  • JM Schott @dfygrvtalwys.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    She’s had an illustrious career, but she will always be Mrs. Wilson from the Dennis the Menace film because she reminds me so much of my grandmother there. (And Walter Matthau is like a crankier version of my grandfather.)

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  • Steve May @stevemaythe1st.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 29, 2026

    I like sticking silly little details in the background of books I illustrate - it’s nice when people notice them! Somebody just remarked upon ‘Pants of Fear’ in the background Of this Dennis the Menace book - this is a film that needs to be made surely?!?

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  • Pot Shop Boo @potshopboy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 17, 2025

    Ruin a movie: Dennis The Menace To Society

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  • BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    Jay North, ‘Dennis the Menace’ Star, Dies at 73 He played the young mischief maker on the CBS comedy for four seasons and was in 'Maya,' a movie and TV show

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  • Jarkes, CEO of Juna and Odette @therealjarkes.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    Fun fact: someone I knew on an MLP imageboard I used to frequent said that he actually lived in the town where the 90's Dennis the Menace movie was filmed and even auditioned for the role. He then said, "Considering what happened, I probably dodged a bullet there." I still don't know what he meant.

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  • Tenebrad @bradislove.bsky.socialBluesky · May 3, 2025

    I wonder what the 1993 Dennis the Menace movie would have been if Tim Burton had ended up directing it like Warner Brothers originally wanted. It's a weird fit, but he was at his peak back then and it sort of makes an odd kind of sense if you think about it

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  • Lotus Prince of Darkness @lotusprince.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Not a movie thing, but: On March 12, 1951, the US witnessed the debut of the newspaper comic Dennis the Menace. Also on March 12, 1951, the UK witnessed the debut of a completely unrelated newspaper comic, also called Dennis the Menace.

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  • You Call Yourself a Film Critic @filmcriticmaybe.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    (sorry double post have another point to make) Love that TMNT is on their 5th animated show-6th show in general-which is a spin off of their 7th movie following their 4 comic books runs & also countless fucking toy runs manga etc. and when was the last Dennis the Menace thing you've seen lol

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  • Comic Book Cinephile @comicbookcinephile.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 10, 2026

    Born on February, 10 1929, prolific film and television composer Jerry Goldsmith's credits include 'Supergirl' (1984) and 'Dennis the Menace' (1993). #composer #filmscore #filmsky #Supergirl #DennistheMenace

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  • Jelly 🌻🍁🍉 @jemiaj.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 20, 2025

    Herbert Anderson is in this movie, uncredited (he plays "the husband" in the audience). He was the dad on Dennis The Menace TV show starring Jay North. (North died two weeks ago). #NoirAlley #TCMParty #TheSetUp

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  • Anita 🎬🎥📺🎶📚 @gemini53.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 29, 2026

    #Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Oct. 30 - movie or TV character who has a mischievous character Dennis the Menace (1959-1963) #tvsky

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  • 🦖Gavin Hayes (DinoFang127)🦖 @dinofang127.bsky.socialBluesky · May 13, 2026

    So yesterday, I listened to the Dennis the Menace: Dinosaur Hunter movie on YouTube while I worked. The poster for the movie is very misleading as there is no dinosaur to be seen at all apart from a few fossils. Does it count as a dinosaur movie tho considering the movie involved dinosaurs?

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  • Emma Cifrino (dr. maine witch, DMA, PhD) @mainewitch.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 11, 2025

    Listening to some Blank Check back catalog episodes and in one they briefly discuss the 1993 Dennis the Menace film and recommend the listener look up what Christopher Llloyd looks like in that movie and MY GOD. I was NOT prepared.

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  • Bitch Vig @autogynoid.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 30, 2025

    A very rare flower from the movie Dennis The Menace.

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  • 𝓣𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓓𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓛𝓪𝓷a💋Back In Black🎶 @thatdamelana.bsky.socialBluesky · May 2, 2025

    I feel out of the loop here. I need Beyoncé, Met Gala news, Spaces😭…. even random stuff like Dennis the Menace dying, that series is comfort TV, and Walter Matthau was perfect in the film. I need National Enquirer energy!👃 But I’m not going back to the no-no place.✖️🫠

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  • Opie @ayocarl.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 17, 2025

    Ah, no. She was a big part of my childhood because I used to watch the Dennis the Menace movie all the time, and also Bringing Down the House. She was so funny and nice.

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  • Ol' Chef Dan @olchefdan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 11, 2026

    So far for family movie night, kids 6 and 10, we've watched: Princess Bride Young Frankenstein Casablanca Gimme Shelter Big Dennis the Menace Goonies Miracle on 34th Street Miracle Worker Mary Poppins Holy Grail Amadeus Mrs. Doubtfire What About Bob Lord of the Rings Dumbo Roger Rabbit

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  • Achilles @achilleslaststand.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 8, 2026

    Dennis the Menace the Cartoon strip is about just as meh as the movie featuring Walter Matthau.

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  • Nat Brehmer @natbrehmer.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 18, 2025

    If there was ever gonna be a CALVIN & HOBBES movie it should've been during that early '90s run of ADDAMS FAMILY, FLINTSTONES, DENNIS THE MENACE, etc. which were at least always interesting and lively and weird, whether they worked or not.

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  • PKs Powerfromspace1 🚀 Last Angry Bernie Brother cast adrift 😒 @powerfromspace1.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 2, 2025

    If Dennis the Menace was a horror movie franchise ☝️

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  • Alex Weitzman @alexweitzman.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    That perfectly describes my relationship with the live-action Dennis the Menace movie with Walter Matthau as Mr. Wilson.

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  • tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 9, 2024

    when I say "a timeless gem from the Golden Age of Hollywood" i'm talking about the 1993 film Dennis the Menace

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  • Bewitched History Book @bewitchedbook.bsky.socialBluesky · May 31, 2026

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY, #PaulBarselou! He appeared 9x on #Bewitched as the Bartender Darrin confides in, all with differing names like Al, Pete, Joe, and Max. He had recurring roles on ‘Dennis the Menace,’ ‘Perry Mason’ and ‘Hazel.’ He even appeared in the big screen Arnold Schwarzenegger movie "True Lies.”

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  • Party Man, PhDracula @hombredefiesta.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 13, 2026

    What makes this doubly hilarious is that it’s mocking the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, who are about to have a new movie and video game out while the last time anyone saw Woody Woodpecker or Dennis the Menace was in movies whose combined Rotten Tomatoes score is still in single digits lol.

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  • Nathewulf Art, Mayor of Halloween @nathewulfart.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    The way they just villained up Christopher Lloyd in Dennis the Menace movie is amazing, he's all dirty and slick in contrast to how nice everything else is, just sliding around in sleaze robbing houses

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  • Jeffrey @wakkoking.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 3, 2025

    Osmosis Jones Every Which Way But Loose The Neverending Story Little Giants Max The Iron Giant Michael Major League II Dennis the Menace A Cinderella Story Wyatt Earp Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Lego Batman: The Movie- DC Super Heroes Unite Justice League vs The Fatal Five

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  • Shana L. Darabie @shanadarabie.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 29, 2025

    I mentioned my father’s name is Dennis to my Japanese friend this morning, which led to me bringing up Dennis the Menace and finding out the 90s movie was apparently big in Japan

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  • David G-P @davidjgp1983.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 7, 2025

    I’ve watched it. I’m glad I watched it. I will almost certainly never ever watch it again. Don’t blame you for avoiding. The oddest choice of video to show our RE class in Year 9. Made a nice change from the Dennis the Menace film…

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  • Noah Smith @smithnoah.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    I didn’t grow up watching a ton of classic TV. But I’m pretty sure I’ve seen every episode of Dennis the Menace. Was he really menacing? No. Was Jay North’s performance still iconic? Heck yeah! www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/j...

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  • James Geary @jamesmgeary.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 30, 2025

    Happy Sunday all, and happy Mother's Day to everyone in Ireland and the UK. Just have my daughter out while my wife chills, and then we're having a family movie. Think it'll be Dennis the Menace.

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  • Caleb Goellner @calebgoellner.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2025

    Movie Sonic is very good. It’s Dragon Ball characters talking like Superman in an earnest Dennis the Menace strip where he talks a friend down from destroying the world instead of killing him in revenge.

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  • Jeffs Comics @jeffscomics.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 6, 2024

    Dennis the Menace's Mom: Alice Mitchell Played by Gloria Henry in the 1959 sitcom (then age 40), and by Lea Thompson in the 1993 film (then 32). <Dennis the Menace may qualify as "Good art from an SOB artist". He was a real bastard to his first family.>

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  • Redclaw Brokenpaw @otter-space.comBluesky · Dec 25, 2023

    Lord we are gonna watch Dennis the Menace XD I haven't seen this movie since I was a kid

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  • Lauren Thompson @laurenfacall.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 26, 2026

    28 October 1929 – 2025 Joan Plowright, 95, English actress. Laurence Olivier (m. 1961 his death 1989) The Entertainer (Broadway 1958 + film) A Taste of Honey (Tony Award) Equus * Enchanted April (OscarNom) Dennis the Menace * 101 Dalmatians * Tea with Mussolini * Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont (2005)

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  • Saturday Mornings Forever @satmforever.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2026

    Dennis the Menace (1986): "Vampire Scare" After seeing a scary vampire movie, the kids pass by a creepy house and are invited inside by its vampire-looking occupant. #31DaysOfSaturdayMorningHalloween

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  • Katherine ElizaBOOth 👻 @webkitten.northsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    We need to talk about how amazing Christopher Lloyd was in 1993's Dennis the Menace (but also how amazing that film was in general).

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  • Andee Harry @andeeharry1.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 16, 2026

    Today is 40th anniversary to (2) Bon Jovi: You give love a bad name Transformers the Movie Queen/Freddy Magic Tour Defenders of the Earth show Dennis the Menace TV series Alvin and the Chipmunks tv series The Smurfs tv series A Team Golden Girls Cameron Lake Nyos disaster

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  • Spooky Moe @familyfeedbag.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 13, 2026

    The live action Dennis the Menace is a fascinating movie.

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  • JC Dendeath @jcdenden.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Hehehe, I used to get called Dennis the Menace in primary school, of course. The movie was still new. 😁

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  • Scary Berry🎃👻 @nesoberry.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 31, 2025

    rewatching the Dennis the Menace movie for the first time in almost 20 years and damn, I didn't know Christopher Lloyd was in that movie

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  • din @dinseaferno.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 25, 2025

    Home Alone revolves around John Candy. Without him, Kathyn O’hara’s story couldn’t land as it did which would have let the burglary press the movie a bit too far into Looney Tunes territory like many of its early 90s contemporaries - Beethoven, Dennis the Menace etc.

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  • 🎃Lady A Pumpkins💀 @tiredderit.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    Falling asleep during the Dennis the Menace movie with my daughter and all the animals this afternoon reminded me how lucky I am. What do you mean this is my life? 16 yr old me could never imagine this happiness under the same roof.

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  • Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 15, 2025

    𝟯𝟬 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲: 🗓 Day. 1: first film you saw at the cinema… 🎬 Dennis the Menace 💭 I saw this at the Odeon Studio Richmond - I was six. Now, the smell of cinema popcorn is enough to instantly transport me back to that specific day.

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  • Saturday Mornings Forever @satmforever.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 17, 2025

    Dennis the Menace (1986): "Vampire Scare" After seeing a scary vampire movie, the kids pass by a creepy house and are invited inside by its vampire-looking occupant. #31DaysOfSaturdayMorningHalloween

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  • Death @insatiableone.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 21, 2025

    They played a version of this at a drive in theater where I saw the Dennis the Menace movie, so I've already been exposed But thanks for bringing it baaaaack

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  • Matt the Dad (suboptimal) @suboptimaldad.gobirds.onlineBluesky · Sep 2, 2025

    @funbearablepod.bsky.social @bradrohrer.bsky.social I laughed so hard the Dennis the Menace movie remembering, but then I read this... turns out the real menace was never Dennis.

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  • AK ✨ @akno47.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2025

    Dennis the Menace & Matilda are my favs. I can quote the whole movie 😭

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