The 1994 film "Getting Even With Dad" is a modern comedy about three bumbling criminals living in San Francisco who attempt to steal a cache of collector coins worth $1,500,000 from Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), a real company founded in 1986. Ray Gleason (Ted Danson), Robert "Bobby" Drace, and Carl read about a hoard of collector coins being sent to a PCGS office in San Francisco. Ray's 11 year old son Timmy Gleason (Macaulay Culkin) is left at Ray's apartment by Ray's sister who is leaving on a honeymoon. Timmy finds out about the theft and uses this information to blackmail Ray into acting like a father to him.

The film's title shows a large US gold $20 coin of the St. Gaudens design, minted from 1907 to 1933.

This coin has a rare date and mint for the St. Gaudens $20 series.

This fictional PCGS office is located in San Francisco. The real PCGS facility is in Southern California.

PCGS coin graders are shown at work.

A computer printout of coins, dates, and grades.

The employee wears white gloves while holding the "raw" (ungraded) coin.

The container's serial number is not in the current PCGS registry. It may have been used just for the film or the coin was later re-graded and given a different number. Coin grading company containers are generally known as "slabs."

Back at Ray's apartment the three men plan the heist. They keep a coin magazine and make jokes about "numismatists."

The fictional coin magazine headlines read:

Ray's sister stops by and leaves Timmy Gleason, Ray's 11 year old son.

Timmy goes into a bedroom and listens to the three men plan the "job." Timmy looks around the bedroom and finds a jar of pennies.

Timmy also finds some pennies on a table.

The five pennies are Lincoln cents and two appear older than the other three. The three men leave to steal the coins. At the PCGS office an employee carries a tray with graded coins.

PCGS employees place the graded coins in a small safe. The three robbers overpower the security guards and take the safe. The three men return to the apartment and hide the loot on the building roof. Timmy goes to the roof, finds the loot, puts the coins into a backpack, and moves them to another location.

Timmy explains to the three men, especially his father, that he will give back the coins if Ray takes him to various museums, amusement parks, and a San Franciso Giants baseball game. All three men accompany Timmy to the places and they are joined by Theresa Walsh, a female police detective, who follows Ray and Timmy around. Ray begins liking his son and decides not to keep the loot. The police find Ray and Bobby and arrest them at a bus station and open a coin locker where they find a backpack.

Ray and Timmy are released by the police and Timmy quietly tells Detective Walsh where the coins are. The film credits include PCGS.

The credits include "Professional Coin Grading Service of Newport Beach."

It is unusual for a real company to play the part of a robbery victim in a film. The 1955 film "5 Against the House" was about a robbery of the real Reno's Harolds Club Casino.

Ted Danson as Ray Gleason
Macaulay Culkin as Timmy Gleason
Saul Rubinek as Robert "Bobby" Drace
Gailard Sartain as Carl
Director: Howard Deutch
Writers: Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein