Mr. Mom
- Michael Keaton: Jack Butler
- Teri Garr: Caroline Butler
- Taliesin Jaffe: Kenny Butler
- Courtney White: Megan Butler
- Brittany White: Megan Butler
- Ann Jillian: Joan
- Jeffrey Tambor: Jinx
- Christopher Lloyd: Larry
- Tom Leopold: Stan
- Graham Jarvis: Howard Humphries
- Carolyn Seymour: Eve
- Michael Alaimo: Bert
- Valri Bromfield: Doris
Mr. Mom is an American comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti from the year 1983.
Action
Jack Butler is one day of work. He can not find a new job. Jack takes care of the household while his wife Caroline works in an advertising agency. He is at first overwhelmed by his duties. His neighbor Joan is interested in him.
Caroline undertakes jointly with her boss - who is regarded as a womanizer - a business trip. The man tries unsuccessfully to seduce her, for which he is beaten. Caroline returns home and is worried that she had lost her job. Your boss comes in and asks her to return because of an important customer.
The former head of Jack arrives and offers him his old job again.
Reviews
Roger Ebert compared the film in the Chicago Sun - Times on August 22, 1983, the pilot episode of a sitcom on television. The basic idea of offering "real" comedic possibilities that would waste the film authors through bad gags, predicament fantasy scenes, stock stiff characters and implausible situations. This is all the worse because the cast with Michael Keaton, Teri Garr and Martin Mull "promising" is.
Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times on August 26, 1983, the comedy would be funny if they would include jokes ( "would be funny if it had jokes "). Michael Keaton and Teri Garr might like; the initial situation would provide opportunities that would not use it.
Awards
The film won in 1984 for Best Comedy Young Artist Award. Frederick Koehler was nominated for the Young Artist Award.
Background
The film played in theaters in the USA about a 64.8 million U.S. dollars.