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Like Father Like Son

  • 19871987
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
6.2K
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Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
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Play trailer1:28
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ComedyFantasy
A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned up doctor and his laid back son.A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned up doctor and his laid back son.A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned up doctor and his laid back son.
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
6.2K
YOUR RATING
    • Rod Daniel
    • Lorne Cameron(story by)
    • Steve Bloom(screenplay by)
    • David Hoselton(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Dudley Moore
    • Kirk Cameron
    • Margaret Colin
    • Rod Daniel
    • Lorne Cameron(story by)
    • Steve Bloom(screenplay by)
    • David Hoselton(uncredited)
  • Stars
    • Dudley Moore
    • Kirk Cameron
    • Margaret Colin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 29User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    Like Father Like Son
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    Sean Astin and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Rod Daniel in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Kirk Cameron and Camille Cooper in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
    Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron in Like Father Like Son (1987)
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    Dudley Moore
    Dudley Moore
    • Dr. Jack Hammond…
    Kirk Cameron
    Kirk Cameron
    • Chris Hammond…
    Margaret Colin
    Margaret Colin
    • Ginnie Armbruster
    Catherine Hicks
    Catherine Hicks
    • Dr. Amy Larkin
    Patrick O'Neal
    Patrick O'Neal
    • Dr. Armbruster
    Sean Astin
    Sean Astin
    • Trigger
    Camille Cooper
    Camille Cooper
    • Lori Beaumont
    Micah Grant
    • Rick Anderson
    Bill Morrison
    • Uncle Earl
    Skeeter Vaughan
    • Medicine Man
    Larry Sellers
    Larry Sellers
    • Navajo Helper
    Tami David
    • Navajo Girl
    Maxine Stuart
    Maxine Stuart
    • Phyllis
    David Wohl
    David Wohl
    • Dr. Roger Hartwood
    Michael Horton
    Michael Horton
    • Dr. Mike O'Donald
    Randy Lowell
    Randy Lowell
    • Dr. Spellner
    • (as Randolph Dreyfuss)
    Art Frankel
    • Mr. Racine
    Christine Healy
    Christine Healy
    • Hospital Administrator
      • Rod Daniel
      • Lorne Cameron(story by) (screenplay by)
      • Steve Bloom(screenplay by)
      • David Hoselton(uncredited)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      Part of a late 1980s mini-cycle of age-swap / body-swap pictures. The movies included Like Father Like Son (1987), Big (1988), 18 Again! (1988), Vice Versa (1988), and Dream a Little Dream (1989).
    • Goofs
      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

      Chris Hammond: How can she stand to be so close to her own body without constantly feeling herself up?

    • Connections
      Edited into Left Behind: Like Son (2013)
    • Soundtracks
      Dance All Night
      Performed by Autograph

      Courtesy of RCA Records

    User reviews29

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    5/10
    Each Other's Lives
    Like Father Like Son was made at the height of Kirk Cameron's bubblegum popularity as teen idol, courtesy of his television series Growing Pains which was dominating the ratings in 1987. Cameron was just getting into his fundamentalist religion kick so the script couldn't be too naughty.

    As it is it's a mildly amusing comedy of the Freaky Friday vein, only this time it's a father and son, Kirk's father in this case being Dudley Moore. Kirk's your typical teenage kid, just looking for a good time and not too serious. Moore is a very serious and respected surgeon who would like to be the new chief of staff at his hospital to replace Patrick O'Neal's whose recommendation on a replacement will probably make or break a candidate.

    Kirk's got some troubles of his own in the form of shapely Camille Cooper who's hitting on him. She's the girl friend of jock Micah Grant who hates Kirk and his friend Sean Astin.

    In fact Astin's archaeologist uncle is the cause of all the problems that Moore and Cameron face. The uncle Bill Morrison has come back from a dig at the Navajo reservation with a body transference medicine that Astin thinks would be worth a few laughs, even experimenting with a dog and cat on it. But when the maid thinks it's a condiment and Moore and Cameron use it on the spaghetti, strange things happen.

    Each lives about 36 hours in the other's bodies and the other's lives and generally make a mess of it. If you've seen both versions of Freaky Friday you've got a general idea of what's going to happen.

    The film did reasonably well at the box office though it failed to make Cameron a movie star. That didn't happen until Kirk started playing on the Christian film circuit. Moore and Cameron and Astin work well together and it's still mildly amusing.
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    • Release date
      • October 2, 1987 (United States)
      • United States
      • Sony Movie Channel (United States)
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Imagine Films Entertainment
      • The Malpaso Company
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
      • Dolby

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