Ready to get splurged? The second screening in The Royal's new monthly KID POWER! series brings us an offbeat slapstick gangster musical that features ruthless mobsters, gin hall singers and hard-nosed cops played exclusively by a cast of children!

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Alan Parkers BUGSY MALONE showcases the talents of a pre-Chachi Scott Baio and 13-year-old Jodie Foster in perhaps the most elaborate playground game of cops and robbers ever attempted. In the film, Baio, playing the titular role, gets mixed up with one of the pint-sized gangs competing to take over the sarsaparilla racket by uncovering a cache of the ultimate weapon: tommy-gun like splurge guns thatinstead of spraying bulletsshoot forth globs of custard that take their recipient out of commission. But what starts as a novelty soon gives way to a genuinely interesting story, supported ably by the pre-teen cast and a sprinkling of Broadway-style song and dance numbers written and sometimes performed by Paul Williams. Goofing on the clichs of prohibition-era set gangster pics like THE STING, DILLINGER and Robert Altmans THIEVES LIKE US, the film plays off of the absurdity of miniature mobsters talking up dancers at speakeasies and chasing each other in Model T pedal cars. More importantly, BUGSY MALONE also exemplifies the idea of kid power, as the films small stars get the chance to resolve their own issues in a world without parents or adult authorityespecially once the story explodes in delicious, creamy warfare. Paul Corupe

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