Father and son have to live with the switch until they can find uncle Earl. Larry Armbruster has flirtatious wife Ginnie (Margaret Colin).
Amy Larkin (Catherine Hicks) is a crusader working under him. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally take it and switch bodies. His best friend Trigger (Sean Astin)'s uncle Earl is working on a brain transference serum derived from a native American potion. He has a crush on self- obsessed Lori Beaumont despite her giant boyfriend. Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 3 / 10 anti-funnyĬhris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) struggles in class. Moore and Cameron and Astin work well together and it's still mildly amusing. That didn't happen until Kirk started playing on the Christian film circuit.
The film did reasonably well at the box office though it failed to make Cameron a movie star. If you've seen both versions of Freaky Friday you've got a general idea of what's going to happen. But when the maid thinks it's a condiment and Moore and Cameron use it on the spaghetti, strange things happen.Įach lives about 36 hours in the other's bodies and the other's lives and generally make a mess of it. The uncle Bill Morrison has come back from a dig at the Navajo reservation with a body transference medicine that Astin thinks would be worth a few laughs, even experimenting with a dog and cat on it. In fact Astin's archaeologist uncle is the cause of all the problems that Moore and Cameron face. She's the girl friend of jock Micah Grant who hates Kirk and his friend Sean Astin. Kirk's got some troubles of his own in the form of shapely Camille Cooper who's hitting on him. Moore is a very serious and respected surgeon who would like to be the new chief of staff at his hospital to replace Patrick O'Neal's whose recommendation on a replacement will probably make or break a candidate. Kirk's your typical teenage kid, just looking for a good time and not too serious. Cameron was just getting into his fundamentalist religion kick so the script couldn't be too naughty.Īs it is it's a mildly amusing comedy of the Freaky Friday vein, only this time it's a father and son, Kirk's father in this case being Dudley Moore.
Like Father Like Son was made at the height of Kirk Cameron's bubblegum popularity as teen idol, courtesy of his television series Growing Pains which was dominating the ratings in 1987. Reviewed by bkoganbing 5 / 10 Each Other's Lives I find nothing funny about a seventeen-year-old acting like he's ten. I mean that he was acting more immature in his adult body than he did in his teenage body. Chris not only doesn't try to be adult for the sake of his father, he actually regresses. In this movie, the son is seventeen so he has an inkling of what it takes to be an adult, or he can at least fake it. Even if he's tries his best he's going to fail. It's actually funnier, and in some ways adorable, to see a kid that young attempting to be an adult. The monumental difference between this movie and Vice Versa (starring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage) is that in Vice Versa the son was a 10-year-old-boy. Neither of them even try to pretend to be the other as they carry on in different bodies, in different environments, but with the exact same behavior. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally drinks a brain swap serum and ends up trading bodies with his son Chris (Kirk Cameron). If you haven't guessed the plot by now then let me apprise you.
This movie came out in 1987 and Vice Versa in 1988. Reviewed by view_and_review 2 / 10 Vice Versa was Better