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Mr. Mom

1983

Action / Comedy / Drama

37
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 77% · 26 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 29760 29.8K

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Plot summary

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...

Director

Stan Dragoti Photo
Stan Dragoti

Top cast

Christopher Lloyd Photo
Christopher Lloyd as Larry
Michael Keaton Photo
Michael Keaton as Jack
Edie McClurg Photo
Edie McClurg as Check Out Lady
Martin Mull Photo
Martin Mull as Ron
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649.47 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 8
1.37 GB
1920*1024
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 19

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by GregTheStopSign95 7 / 10

40 years later...

I spotted this on streaming last night and hadn't seen it in 30 years so I figured why not. And I wasn't disappointed, it still holds up pretty well, mostly.The gags are still pretty solid, as long as you actually realise that they're 40 years old and definitely not the same as today's movie humour, with the only real culture shock is when Caroline walks into the pitch meeting and EVERYONE is smoking, and the air is thick with cigarette smoke. It's easy to forget now that back in the 80s was a very different time in that regard, as well as so many others.Michael Keaton's and Teri Garr's performances hold up well, Jeffrey Tambor is his usual dryly funny self, Martin Mull is great, it was kind of a surprise to see Christopher Lloyd not really looking that much different to how he does now except a little less wrinkled and darker-haired. It was also a bit of a shock to realise that the youngest of the two boys was played by Taliesin "Percy" Jaffe!All in all though it's still a good, solid watch even these 40 years later.
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Reviewed by Mr-Fusion 7 / 10

Cute comedy that hinges on the tremendous abilities of its lead

Despite the overall cute tone and the TV-movie production values, "Mr. Mom" is a blast, thanks primarily to a truly funny lead actor. Writer John Hughes takes the role-reversal premise of an engineer having to stay at home while the wife reenters the workforce, and places it smack in the middle of the early-80s recession (which lends the movie a solid authenticity).

Most of the comedy derives from Keaton's earnest portrayal as he navigates the jungles of housewifedom (supermarket chaos, hostile vacuum cleaners and falling into stay-at-home complacency) and seeming ease with being the movie's comedic fulcrum. Hughes' script plumbs the depths of a working man faced with the daunting responsibilities of domesticity for laughs, while colliding the housewife's experience with the the corporate boardroom mentality.

Things could easily have slipped into generic chick-flick territory. But Keaton makes all the difference.

7/10

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