Like Father Like Son (1987 film)
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| Like Father Like Son | |
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.jpg) Like Father Like Son DVD cover |
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| Directed by | Rod Daniel |
| Produced by | Brian Grazer David Valdes |
| Written by | Steve Bloom Lorne Cameron David Hoselton |
| Starring | Kirk Cameron Dudley Moore Catherine Hicks Patrick O'Neal Sean Astin David Wohl Michael Horton Jack Starrett |
| Music by | Miles Goodman Shelly Manne |
| Cinematography | James Crabe Jack N. Green |
| Editing by | Lois Freeman-Fox |
| Distributed by | TriStar Pictures |
| Running time | 96 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
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Like Father Like Son is a 1987 comedy film starring Kirk Cameron and Dudley Moore. This film is a remake of the 1976 classic Disney film Freaky Friday. The film is marketed with that tagline "Chris and his dad have accidentally changed bodies - but no big deal. Chris gets the Jag and the Golden Card. Dad gets the fake ID and the bio final."
[edit] Plot summary
Chris Hammond (Kirk Cameron) is a high school senior. He's an average student, a decent track team participant, and likes a girl at school who happens to be dating a jock. And, his dad, Jack (Dudley Moore) is breathing down his neck to get him into an Ivy League school to study pre-med, leaving Chris secretly wanting to tell his dad to just let him make his own decisions about what he wants to do.
Chris's buddy, Trigger (Sean Astin), has a wacky uncle who's staying with him. He lived in the desert for a while, experimenting with body-switching potions. Trigger gets a hold of the brain transference serum and it switches Chris and Jack's brains so that Chris is Jack and Jack is Chris.
But, it makes for a whole lot of trouble. The big-shot Dr. Hammond has to settle on being a teenager a while. And Chris has to deal with being Dr. Hammond. Neither can screw things up. For Dr. Hammond, he hopes to get the ordeal with over quickly; but for Chris, there's advantages to not having to show up for school, take tests, and the like. But, they each grow quite irritable of the situation as they tend to screw up each other's lives. Dr. Hammond has a few nasty run-ins with the bully as Chris. And Chris, involved in an affair with the boss's wife, not only sets the living room on fire, but also risks his father's chances of becoming chief of staff.
[edit] Trivia
- Actor Jack Starrett, who played Coach Jennings also played Coach Jennings in the 1961 version of Like Father Like Son.
- Filming locations:
The school used in the film was John Marshall High, which was also used in Pretty in Pink
The Mojave Desert and Joshua Tree National Park were also used as filming locations.
The hospital used in this film was the naval hospital in San Diego, CA
- Two songs from the rock band Autograph's third album "Loud and Clear" appear in this film, the first which was played briefly was "Dance all Night" when Chris (in his dad's body) drives to work, the full version of "She Never Looked that Good For Me", along with the band themselves appear in concert.
