Mr. Mom [Blu-ray]

Director: Stan Dragoti Stan Dragoti

Overview

Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) is a Detroit automobile engineer unjustly fired by his boss. Jack's wife Caroline (Teri Garr) is compelled to get a job to make ends meet, and is soon hired on as an advertising executive in a firm run by the shifty Ron Richardson (Martin Mull). This leaves Jack at home doing the housework and taking care of the kids, which he discovers is a lot more complicated than he ever imagined. Moving from breadwinner to househusband doesn't do much for his self-esteem, and he bides his time playing poker for coupons with a gaggle of neighborhood housewifes and pondering infidelity with dedicated homewrecker Joan (Ann Jillian). Among Keaton's fish-out-of-water bits: trying to maneuver a shopping cart with the inevitable wobbly wheels; and imagining a soap opera/film-noir episode in which he gives in to Joan's advances, only to be found out by Caroline.

Product Details

Release Date:	09/05/2017
UPC:	0826663179262
Original Release:	1983
Rating:	PG
Source:	Shout Factory
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:31:00
Sales rank:	17,516

Special Features

A look back at Mr. Mom with producer Lauren Shuler Donner and co-stars Ann Jullian, Miriam Flynn, Frederick Koehler and Taliesin Jaffe; Original theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Michael Keaton	Jack
Teri Garr	Caroline Butler
Frederick Koehler	Alex Butler
Taliesin Jaffe	Kenny Butler
Courtney White	Megan Butler,Megan
Martin Mull	Ron Richardson
Ann Jillian	Joan Hampton
Jeffrey Tambor	Jinx Lathman
Christopher Lloyd	Larry
Thomas Leopold	Stan,Stan
Graham Jarvis	Howard Humphries
Carolyn Seymour	Eve
Michael Alaimo	Bert
Valri Bromfield	Doris
Charles Woolf	Phil
Miriam Flynn	Annette
Derek McGrath	Exec. #1
Michael Ensign	Exec. #2
Ken Olfson	Exec. #3
Frank Birney	Exec. #4
Hilary Beane	Exec. #5
Edie McClurg	Check Out Lady
Patti Deutsch	Deli Girl
Estelle Omens	Middle Age Woman
Bernadette Birkett	Young Woman Shopper
James Gallery	Bob
Tom Rayhall	Higgins
Danny Mora	Auto Worker
Maurice Sneed	Auto Worker
Henry Flores	Male Dancer
Roger Menache	Male Dancer
Dennis Landry	Male Dancer
Lisa Freeman	Motorhead
Marley Sims	Receptionist
Kay Dingle	Woman in Crowd
Robert Lussier	Race Starter
Jacque Lynn Colton	Card Player #1
Mandy Ingber	Debbie
Ken Hixon	Director
Jane Atkins	Mommy
Gerry Black	Chauffeur
John O'Leary	Norman Young
Lisa Blake Richards	Card Player #2
Larry Flash Jenkins	Camera Asst. (as Larry Flash Gordon)
Gaye Kruger	Secretary
Patty Dworkin	Melon Girl
Bruce French	Douglass

Technical Credits

John Hughes

John Hughes	Screenwriter
Stan Dragoti	Director
Aaron Spelling	Executive Producer
Lynn Loring	Producer
Lauren Shuler-Donner	Producer
Bruce McNall	Producer

Editorial Reviews

The gender-role comedy Mr. Mom does a fine job mining fertile comedic territory. In addition to nailing the grand themes of a man forced out of his conventional role of family breadwinner, the screenplay finds lots of cute ways to combine male and female stereotypes. Jack and the other housewives playing poker for coupons is just one witty example. Michael Keaton's performance is one of the keys to the film's success. As he finds himself slipping into more and more feminine roles, the film doesn't get laughs out of a man acting like a woman, it gets laughs out of a man suffering the emotional stress associated with traditional women's roles. Jack is not a sexist pig who learns how hard his unappreciated wife works; he is a good husband and father who learns that raising children and taking care of a house is stressful and demanding. Since Jack is sympathetic throughout, the audience laughs with him in recognition, not at him in derision. That is what makes this family-comedy worth sharing with the family.

All Movie Guide - Perry Seibert