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Mr. Mom (1983)
Directed by Stan Dragoti
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Overview
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living when Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It’s just that he’s never done it before, and really doesn’t have a clue…
Rated PG | Length 91 minutes
Actors
Michael Keaton | Teri Garr | Fred Koehler | Taliesin Jaffe | Courtney-Jane White | Brittany White | Martin Mull | Ann Jillian | Jeffrey Tambor | Christopher Lloyd | Tom Leopold | Graham Jarvis | Carolyn Seymour | Michael Alaimo | Valri Bromfield | Charles Woolf | Miriam Flynn | Derek McGrath | Michael Ensign | Ken Olfson | Frank Birney | Hilary Beane | Edie McClurg | Patti Deutsch | Estelle Omens | Patty Freedman | Bernadette Birkett | Lisa Freeman | John Richard Petersen | Lori Randolph | James Gallery
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/26/2012 | TV | Streaming | Video on Demand | 3 stars |
| (Average) 3 stars |
Viewing Notes
MR. MOM was one of those “gems” from the Eighties that I remember watching all the time as a kid because it was so hilar. As an adult? Well it’s amusing, I’ll give it that but it’s not as timeless as I expected it to be.
Unfortunately nowadays the film comes across as “quaint” and the humor doesn’t play as well as it probably did in the 1980s; I certainly didn’t get the ROFLs I got as a kid. It’s very much a film of its time, a world in transition when gender roles were shifting and in that it remains interesting, but that’s about all I’ll give it.
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