Mr-Mom - Michael Keaton - Funny
Added 9/27/2009
I always get a laugh out of his movie.Michael Keaton gets fired from his job so his wife has to go to work.Makes me wonder why he couldn't find another job.It gets realy funny when he has to look after the children.I always remember when he started watching thos silly daytime soapies,at first he said what a load of rubbish,next thing he's so involved with them,and i find that amusing.Lots of funny moments in this movie.
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I love the 80's!
Added 9/8/2009
This movie is just another classic that represents how wonderful movies were back in the 1980's. A good simple family comedy without getting too tasteless with sexual innuendos and exploiting our common vices and weaknesses. Jack's a good family man and he loves his wife, and she loves and respects him too. Michael Keaton was great for this role because he does exhume a behavior of a loving family man who wants the best for his family. Of course, I've always enjoyed movies with Teri Garr as either a supportive wife or a great caring mother. Teri Garr was great in "The Black Stallion" and in "Oh God!" as John Denver's wife.
It's interesting how accurate it is about how the auto industry was going through changes and that job lay-offs are eminent even back in the eighties before mass global industry started to kill off American jobs.
Anyway, as a comedy, I can relate to how difficult it is for a man to enter the commonly recognized 'woman's world' of daytime television and running a household of various chores. It is so easy for a man to take for granted of what a homemaker goes through while we men are busting our butts out in the cold working world of sales and industry. Imagine how hard it is for a woman to take care of the house, AND have a job too. Guys! Our wives need our help! It's not so easy these days.
And, of course, you'll even see a little sexism in how some corporate giant can think he can persuade an attractive married woman to give up her family just for more money and status. Martin Mull played a perfect slime ball in this film. He thought that his high corporate status would be more influential to persuade and charm a woman than that of his own natural character.
I'd give this movie a five star rating if they ever re-release it in widescreen (not simulated widescreen by cutting off the top and bottom of the already chopped up fullscreen version like some re-releases have done).
Movies like "Mr. Mom" are great Saturday afternoon entertainment that you can watch with your kids. I miss good family entertainment like this. Another great 80's comedy that I'd like to recommend with Michael Keaton is "Johnny Dangerously."
Yes, I love the 80's!
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Great movie for our time, Lots of men share the duties of raising the kids. Funny movie.
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A good no-nonsense movie!
Added 2/23/2009
Even after all these years this is STILL a decent movie! It has not worn real well with time as some have, but is enjoyable. It's not rocket science, it's a fun movie about a guy who's lost his job, and now depends on his wife to be the money maker. A role reversal movie. Yes, times now are not what they were back then. And the stay at home mom is rarer & rarer. But the jokes are still funny. And while some have called this an insult to both sexes, it also showcases in the end that the power of love conqers all! A rarity in this day and age sometimes it seems.
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Mr. Mom still entertains after 25 years ...
Added 8/12/2008
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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Mr-Mom - Michael Keaton - Funny
Added 9/27/2009
I always get a laugh out of his movie.Michael Keaton gets fired from his job so his wife has to go to work.Makes me wonder why he couldn't find another job.It gets realy funny when he has to look after the children.I always remember when he started watching thos silly daytime soapies,at first he said what a load of rubbish,next thing he's so involved with them,and i find that amusing.Lots of funny moments in this movie.
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I love the 80's!
Added 9/8/2009
This movie is just another classic that represents how wonderful movies were back in the 1980's. A good simple family comedy without getting too tasteless with sexual innuendos and exploiting our common vices and weaknesses. Jack's a good family man and he loves his wife, and she loves and respects him too. Michael Keaton was great for this role because he does exhume a behavior of a loving family man who wants the best for his family. Of course, I've always enjoyed movies with Teri Garr as either a supportive wife or a great caring mother. Teri Garr was great in "The Black Stallion" and in "Oh God!" as John Denver's wife.
It's interesting how accurate it is about how the auto industry was going through changes and that job lay-offs are eminent even back in the eighties before mass global industry started to kill off American jobs.
Anyway, as a comedy, I can relate to how difficult it is for a man to enter the commonly recognized 'woman's world' of daytime television and running a household of various chores. It is so easy for a man to take for granted of what a homemaker goes through while we men are busting our butts out in the cold working world of sales and industry. Imagine how hard it is for a woman to take care of the house, AND have a job too. Guys! Our wives need our help! It's not so easy these days.
And, of course, you'll even see a little sexism in how some corporate giant can think he can persuade an attractive married woman to give up her family just for more money and status. Martin Mull played a perfect slime ball in this film. He thought that his high corporate status would be more influential to persuade and charm a woman than that of his own natural character.
I'd give this movie a five star rating if they ever re-release it in widescreen (not simulated widescreen by cutting off the top and bottom of the already chopped up fullscreen version like some re-releases have done).
Movies like "Mr. Mom" are great Saturday afternoon entertainment that you can watch with your kids. I miss good family entertainment like this. Another great 80's comedy that I'd like to recommend with Michael Keaton is "Johnny Dangerously."
Yes, I love the 80's!
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Great movie for our time, Lots of men share the duties of raising the kids. Funny movie.
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