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  • One-Scene Wonder: Randy Quaid as the farmer Leroy who only agrees to trade his truck for Moze's car if Moze can beat him in a "rassling" match.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: Addie and Moze's cantankerous relationship became a little harder to watch after it became public in later years that Ryan O'Neal had become estranged with Tatum and his other children due to his volatile behavior, although Tatum eventually reconciled with him.
  • Spiritual Successor: To Chaplin's The Kid (1921), another movie depicting a con artist taking on an orphan and making the child help with their schemes.

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