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2 October 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
Chris and his dad have accidentally changed bodies - but no big deal. Chris gets the Jag and the Gold Card. Dad gets the fake ID and the bio final.Plot:
A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned up doctor and his laid back son. full summary | add synopsisAwards:
2 wins moreUser Comments:
Like Bad, Like REALLY Bad more (15 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dudley Moore | ... | Dr. Jack Hammond / Chris Hammond | |
| Kirk Cameron | ... | Chris Hammond / Dr. Jack Hammond | |
| Margaret Colin | ... | Ginnie Armbruster | |
| Catherine Hicks | ... | Dr. Amy Larkin | |
| Patrick O'Neal | ... | Dr. Larry Armbruster | |
| Sean Astin | ... | Clarence / Trigger | |
| Camille Cooper | ... | Lori Beaumont | |
| Micah Grant | ... | Rick Anderson, Lori's Boyfriend | |
| Bill Morrison | ... | Trigger's Uncle Earl | |
| Skeeter Vaughan | ... | Medicine Man | |
| Larry Sellers | ... | Navajo Helper | |
| Tami David | ... | Navajo Girl | |
| Maxine Stuart | ... | Phyllis, Hammonds' Housekeeper | |
| David Wohl | ... | Dr. Roger Hartwood | |
| Michael Horton | ... | Dr. Mike O'Donald |
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96 min | UK:100 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Iceland:L | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-10/7 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG-13 | UK:PGFun Stuff
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One of five body-swap movies all released around the same time. The others were Big (1988), 18 Again! (1988), Vice Versa (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989). moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Chris (Dr. Hammond) is delivering the baby, he picks it up immediately after the birth to reveal that the umbilical cord has already healed, and the baby is perfectly clean and dry. moreSoundtrack:
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Someone must have thought that all this movie needed to succeed was Kirk Cameron to pull in the teenage girls and Dudley Moore to pull in their parents. Somehow they forgot that Kirk is incapable of pulling off anything in the way of depth in his acting and Dudley in a role like this would get carried away with its silliness.
The premise was old, the dialogue poor, the situations strained, and the acting cartoonish. The result is a bad movie with a fading teen heartthrob and a fifty-something actor playing his Arthur character at the age of ten. If anyone finds this in a 'sale' bin for used videos, try to bury it farther down where it can be avoided and forgotten.