Who is Mrs. Nutbush?

According to the credits, she was the crazy woman in the woods. She was apparently the woman who had gone off and left her family.

However, I don't recall anything in the movie explaining this was the same person other than Mary Badham being credited as "Mrs. Nutbush."

I also don't understand how the director thought she could be "the only person" to play the role when she had no speaking lines and was only around for a couple of minutes at most. When I read beforehand that Mary Badham was in the movie, I was hoping she had a bigger role, but anyway, maybe there was more to her appearance that ended up on the cutting room floor.

Like Cliff Clavin, my brain is full of useless trivia

What??

I'm a little late in replying to this thread, but I find it funny asking how John Ritter's kid supposedly made it farther in movies than his father--on the message board of a movie not a lot of people saw and did not get a wide release. His father at least had his name above the title in a few films, whether they were good or not.

I think Hero at Large was a cute movie that did well in the ratings when it aired on TV. Skin Deep got just okay reviews and not a wide audience. What's more ironic is the film that did the best for John Ritter was the ones critics hated, Problem Child. And IMO his best work was in an indie hardly anyone saw, Panic.

Meanwhile I doubt many people you stopped on the street could even tell you for sure his son's first name, or the name of a movie he was in, even if they'd seen him in one.

That's not to knock him, I just don't think he's what you would call "making it big" in movies.


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