Contribute to This PageDetailsSplash (20th Anniversary Edition) FREE Shipping on orders over $49. DetailsOverboard FREE Shipping on orders over $49. Buy "Mr. Mom” from Amazon Warehouse Deals and save 69% off the $14.98 list price. An auto engineer's wife gets a job; he stays home with the children, housework and housewives. When Jack Butler (Michael Keaton) loses his job at an auto factory, he expects to quickly find another. But instead, his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) starts working for an ad agency and Jack ends up taking care of the house and kids. He soon runs afoul of shopping etiquette, a voracious vacuum cleaner, and he can't even drop his kids off at school properly. He starts losing his pride and letting himself go. He stops shaving, drinks at all hours, and watches soap operas. And not only does a predatory divorcée (Ann Jillian) have her eye on him, Caroline's new boss (Martin Mull) has more than business on his mind. Will their marriage survive? What makes Mr. Mom work isn't its role-reversal premise, but its clever off-the-main-plot scenes like the obstacle course at the company picnic, where a footrace with swim fins is set to a variation on the theme to Chariots of Fire;

a poker game using discount coupons for money; or a traumatic, soap-opera-influenced dream Jack has when he realizes his life is going down the toilet. This is the first starring role for Michael Keaton, who went on to star in Beetlejuice and Batman; rainbow vacuum cleaner fragranceshe makes the most of both its comic and sentimental side. service center vacuum cleaner electroluxThe script, incidentally, is written by John Hughes, who later went on to write and direct The Breakfast Club and Home Alone. grit vacuum cleaner Actors: Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Frederick Koehler, Taliesin Jaffe, Courtney White Producers: Aaron Spelling, Art Levinson, Bruce McNall, Harry Colomby, Lauren Shuler Donner Format: Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC

Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo) Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.) Number of discs: 1 Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) DVD Release Date: April 5, 2011 Run Time: 91 minutes #1,912 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) in Movies & TV > DVD > Comedy in Movies & TV > DVD > Drama Learn more about "Mr. Mom" on IMDb See all 379 customer reviews See all 379 customer reviews (newest first) This is one of my favorite movies it's very funny Michael Keaton Teri Garr are hilarious I've been watching it for years Still smiling Great classic comedy movie. Great product, great price, fast shipping, Thanks! A delightful, modern classic in my opinion. My family is often quoting lines from this movie in jest. A classic and still funny! I absolutely love this movie! Splash (20th Anniversary Edition) Father Of The Bride/Father Of The Bride 2 2-Movie Collection Movies & TV > Genre for Featured Categories > Drama

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It's too bad this movie doesn't feel more like their lives and less like the pilot for a TV sitcom. The movie's about a well-paid Ford executive who gets laid off and can't find work. Then his wife finds a job at an advertising agency, and her years of experience in "the front lines of consumerism" make her a big hit with the clients. Meanwhile, her husband stays home to keep house and raise the children. There are so many genuine comedy ideas (and not a few provocative ones) rising out of this situation that it's hard to see how the filmmakers could go wrong. But go wrong they do, with gimmicky sight gags and awkward fantasy sequences, stock characters and unbelievable situations. What a lost opportunity.That's especially true because the cast is so promising. Michael Keaton, a kinetic young actor who gives the uncanny impression of being able to think faster than he can talk, plays the husband. Teri Garr, Dustin Hoffman's other girlfriend in "Tootsie," is the wife. And Martin Mull is the snaky president of the advertising agency, with plans for promoting Garr into his own life.

Now if they'd taken these characters and their situation and followed through on the implications, on a believable level, they might have come up with a true human comedy. Instead, everything is pushed too far, situations are overwritten and over-directed, and the movie is desperate enough to throw in vacuum cleaners with minds of their own, seductive next-door neighbors, and a team of local repairmen who show up an cue and look straight out of TV commercials. God knows there's enough in ordinary housework to make a comedy out of, especially if the hotshot husband is trying to learn how to run the house. Do we really need the scene in which he cheerfully puts four cups of detergent into the washer? Enough real things can go wrong around the house without the movie needing a monosyllabic female TV repairman and an exterminator who's afraid of bugs. Meanwhile, at the ad agency, Teri Garr also is having her problems with a script that strives for the predictable. She's brought into a conference on a tuna account.

The agency's failed campaign presentations line the walls. She shoots them down and comes up with a bright idea: Offer a 50-cent discount for the duration of the recession. Except, wait a minute, the other campaigns on the bulletin board don't even look like professional presentations; they look like scrawls out of Mad magazine. And her bright idea is obviously only in the movie because if she HAS a bright idea, you see, she'll get the job and attract the boss. No attempt is made to be perceptive or original about the idea of a housewife returning to the job wars as an ad executive."Mr. Mom" gives itself away with it's title, I think. The title was so obviously a Concept, a brief encapsulation of what the movie would be "about," that all the script needed to deliver was manufactured, artificial situations inspired, not by the experiences of joblessness or role reversal, but by memories of old TV shows. They had a great idea here. It's too bad they didn't follow it through on a human level, instead of making it feel made up and artificial and twice-removed, from the everyday experience it pretends to be about.