Upon the sudden death of her parents, 28-year-old divorced emergency room nurse Ricky Wilder (Mary Page Keller) returned to her family home at 1115 Fairlawn Drive, Santa Monica (California) – with her six-year-old daughter Sophie (Tina Majorino) – to become the guardian to her 16-year-old brother Brody (Jerry O’Connell) and 13-year-old sister Melissa (Meghann Haldeman).
Sophie – called “Pumpkin” by Ricky – had a hamster named Barney and an invisible friend named Morty. When Sophie thought life would be better as a boy, she started dressing like one and called herself Kurt.
Melissa, experiencing the “traumas of becoming a woman,” practiced kissing on peaches. She had a collection of toy horses and, as a kid, wore panties with characters from the Hello Kitty cartoon series on them.
Brody, nicknamed “Spot” as a kid, ran track in high school and had a part-time job with Star View Tours.
Ricky’s lively, laissez-faire household made the Wilder house a favoured hangout for neighbourhood teens, who preferred it to their own stricter homes and affectionately called it “Camp Wilder”.
Among the hangers-out were Beth (Margaret Langrick), Danielle (Hilary Swank) and Brody’s dim-witted buddy Dorfman (Jay Mohr) – who worked for a company called ‘Roses for a Buck’ and had a pet snake named Ricky.
Ricky Wilder
Mary Page Keller Brody Wilder
Jerry O’Connell Melissa Wilder
Meghann Haldeman Sophie Wilder
Tina Majorino Dorfman Jay Mohr Danielle
Hilary Swank Beth
Margaret Langrick Dexter
Jared Leno
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Sophie – called “Pumpkin” by Ricky – had a hamster named Barney and an invisible friend named Morty. When Sophie thought life would be better as a boy, she started dressing like one and called herself Kurt.
