But with some lacking originality, they made up in witty scripts, and unfortunately this one does not fall into that category. This seemed had been already done going back to the 1930s, and with the success of "Big" in 1986, the theme was repeated with at least three other theatrical movies (and similarly structured stories), every Hollywood studio seemed to be ripping it off. The comedy team of Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron give this their all, but they come out on the short end of the stick with one of half-a-dozen films of the same theme that came out in the mid-to-late 1980's. The father letting the son work at the hospital amounts to callous malpractice. Switching from one unappealing character to the other does nothing to make it good. Jack is not much better and borders on boring. They should have gone all out as wild crazy guys although I doubt Cameron is capable. Chris is not nice and his taste is rather superficial in all aspects. The characters are not that appealing and the story has nothing new. Father and son have to live with the switch until they can find uncle Earl. Larry Armbruster has flirtatious wife Ginnie (Margaret Colin). Amy Larkin (Catherine Hicks) is a crusader working under him. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) accidentally take it and switch bodies. His best friend Trigger (Sean Astin)'s uncle Earl is working on a brain transference serum derived from a native American potion. He has a crush on self- obsessed Lori Beaumont despite her giant boyfriend. Moore and Cameron and Astin work well together and it's still mildly amusing.Ĭhris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) struggles in class. That didn't happen until Kirk started playing on the Christian film circuit.
#LIKE FATHER LIKE SON 1987 MOVIE#
The film did reasonably well at the box office though it failed to make Cameron a movie star. If you've seen both versions of Freaky Friday you've got a general idea of what's going to happen. Each lives about 36 hours in the other's bodies and the other's lives and generally make a mess of it. But when the maid thinks it's a condiment and Moore and Cameron use it on the spaghetti, strange things happen. 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.
In fact Astin's archaeologist uncle is the cause of all the problems that Moore and Cameron face. She's the girl friend of jock Micah Grant who hates Kirk and his friend Sean Astin. Kirk's got some troubles of his own in the form of shapely Camille Cooper who's hitting on him. 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 your typical teenage kid, just looking for a good time and not too serious. 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. Cameron was just getting into his fundamentalist religion kick so the script couldn't be too naughty.
#LIKE FATHER LIKE SON 1987 SERIES#
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.
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