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Mr. Mom
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by MGM (Video & DVD)
Sales Rank: 6547
Price: $10.99
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Funnyman Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice) teams with Teri Garr (Tootsie in this "fresh and funny audience pleaser" (Boxoffice) that's all housework and no pay! Jack and Caroline Butler (Keaton and Garr) are perfectly happy with their roles in life until a layoff makes him a househusband and her a working wife! And while she wrangles with charts, graphs and an all-too-eager-to-be-wrangled boss, he has to contend with their hyper kids, a ravenous vacuum cleaner, an angry washing machine and an oversexed neighbor (Ann Jillian of TV's "It's A Living")! From late nights in the boardroom to lonely nights in the bedroom, the biggest challenge for both Jack and Caroline is learning to trust one another with their reversed roles which they'd better do quickly before Mr. Mom becomes Mr. Single Mom!
Viewer Reviews
I just saw this movie after not seeing it in many years. Hard to believe it's been 25 years since it was released. Times certainly have changed, but so many things have stayed the same.
Michael Keaton is Jack, a working, everyday white collar employee in Detroit working for the auto industry who finds himself out of a job. In a somewhat odd twist of fate for the early 80s, his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) finds a job and goes to work, leaving him to care for the house and kids. Jack is now a house husband, caring for the kids and giving into the hilarity of being a stay at home Mom. This goes on for months on end and Jack gives into the tedium of being a stay at homer. He gives into the endless hours of daytime television, letting the house go, letting the kids overtake him, not knowing or caring enough to learn the ropes of running a house, and having the tension mount between him and Caroline.
There are a series of screwball comedy antics between him, the kids, the household chores, and trying to keep it all under control, and the classic battle of the sexes theme is always there (a man trying to keep things under control in a woman's world). He adopts a clique of women friends, even being chased by a shark of a divorcee, Joan.
Funny how things have changed since then. With the poor economy and the changing gender roles in society today, it's not so uncommon to find a man staying at home with the kids. More women are working than ever before, and more than half of the married women are the breadwinners of their families. It might have been a little strange back then, but it's become more commonplace now. Who knows? Maybe someday we'll go back to these simplier times. I see a world of slightly more courtesy in their working worlds, well behaved kids, and little to no dysfunction.
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