Michael Keaton

Teri Garr

Frederick 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

John Hughes

Stan Dragoti

Lauren Shuler Donner

Bill Wilson

Aaron Spelling

Harry Colomby

Carlos Delarios

Bill Phillips

Ralph Nelson Jr.

Linda Matthews

Sig Tingloff

Bill Balles

Al Overton Jr.

Hal Sanders

Art Levinson

Alan R. Disler

H. Bud Otto

Aaron Rochin

Lee Holdridge

James Stanley

Lindsay Skutch

Bob Mills

Bruce Hauer

Nolan Miller

Earl Gilbert

Gene Clinesmith

James Dyer

Lou Barlia

Lyla Foggia

Sal Sommatino

Ric Sagliani

Michael J. Kohut

Liz Galloway

Michael Neale

Bill Roe

Norman Burza

Dustin Bernard

Gaylin P. Schultz

Leonard Drake

Stephen A. Hope

Alf Clausen

Harry V. Bring

Lisa Freiberger

Victor J. Kemper

Patrick Kennedy

Alfred Sweeney

George R. Nelson

Joe Dunne

Victor Paul

Michael Cassidy

Lynn Loring

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Drama

Mr. Mom

Aaron Spelling Productions

Sherwood Productions

20th Century Fox

United States of America

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Megan and I are starting to watch the same TV shows - and I'm liking them. I'm losing it!

Mr. Mom is directed by Stan Dragoti and written by John Hughes. It stars Michael Keaton, Teri Garr and Martin Mull. Music is by Lee Holdridge and cinematography by Victor J. Kemper. Plot sees Keaton as Jack Butler, who after being laid off from work, is forced to become a house husband after his wife Caroline (Garr) lands a good job with Schooner Tuna - something he's really not cut out to do.

Ah, well, look, it's obviously very eighties, and thankfully society has moved on in leaps and bounds since this film was released. But good honest comedy is just that, honest, and for those looking for a good chuckle whilst admiring the talent of a pre-Batman Keaton, Mr. Mom is a bad mood lifter. Condensed into the 90 minute running time are enough gags and fun sequences to fill out a 12 episode sit-com, with a pre-teen-angst trail blazing John Hughes scripting it full of quotable lines. Lines which Keaton delivers with the comic timing not befitting someone just starting out in film.

The fun is mined from Jack being hopeless at basic household chores whilst badly tending the three young children at the same time. Enter scenes involving shopping, dropping the kids off at school, laundry, cooking and ironing. As his masculinity starts to wane, Jack starts too slob out and gets his kicks by watching day-time soap operas and playing cards with the neighbourhood women. This coincides with his wife Caroline (Garr adorable) advancing well at work, but paying a price for it by being away from the family home far too much. There's also the looming presence of Caroline's smarmy boss (Martin Mull delightfully sleazy) and the good time girl (Ann Jillian sexing it up) who has her eye on Jack for fun and frolics. Both of these are stereotypes, but they existed then as much as they exist now, with that, it's easy to cut Mr. Mom some slack.

Supporting slots fall to Christopher Lloyd (who would re-team with Keaton for the very funny "The Dream Team" in 1989), Jeffrey Tambor ("City Slickers"), Graham Jarvis (TV "Starsky & Hutch/Cagney & Lacey") and Miriam Flynn ("National Lampoon's Vacation"). The child actors put in pleasing turns, where they score funny points both visually and orally, and director Dragoti ("The Man With One Red Shoe") directs in an unfussy natural way. Ultimately it's Keaton and Hughes' script that lifts it to better comedy heights, the latter of which also plays on some basic fears that arise in the real world. Yeah, it's not just about Jack's bumbling around the home, that John Hughes was a sharp fella you know. 7/10

Mr. Mom (1983) | Jack (Michael Keaton) Shopping with the Kids | MGM Studios

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