Like Father Like Son (1987)

Director:

Rod Daniel

Writers:

Steve Bloom (writer)
Lorne Cameron (writer)

Release Date:

2 October 1987 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Fantasy

Tagline:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Soul Transference | Child As Adult | Role Reversal | Remake | Childbirth

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Dudley Moore	...	Dr. Jack Hammond
Kirk Cameron	...	Chris 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

Runtime:

96 min | UK:100 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-10/7 | Sweden:11 | USA:PG-13 | UK:PG

Filming Locations:

Amboy, Mojave Desert, California, USA

Company:

Imagine Entertainment

Trivia:

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).

Goofs:

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.

Quotes:

Trigger: The name's Trigger, as in "horse," as in "hung like."

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "The Simpsons: Like Father, Like Clown (#3.6)" (1991)

Soundtrack:

Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Like Bad, Like REALLY Bad

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.