Help Wanted: Kids (1986) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1986 · 100 mins · English

Directed by

David Greenwalt

Starring

Cindy Williams, Billie Bird, John Dehner, Hillary Wolf, Miriam Flynn, Chad Allen

After losing their jobs in New York, Tom and Amanda Burke move to Arizona, where Tom takes a managerial role at a small children’s clothing company. Their new boss, Sirius Lovelin, is obsessed with the traditional American family and automatically assumes Amanda is a housewife, even though the couple has no children. To avoid offending him, they “hire” two street‑wise kids they meet, whose witty but impertinent behavior quickly entangles the Burkes in a lie they struggle to sustain.