Mr. Mom

UPC: 027616809827

Studio: MGM

MPAA Rating: PG   Contains:[Adult Situations, Questionable for Children, Adult Language, Profanity]

Summary: 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. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Category: Comedy

Features: Collectible booklet

Mr. Mom

Format: DVD

Release Date: 04/25/2000

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: 1 USA & territories, Canada

Runtime: 91 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: French,Spanish

Chapters: Side #1 --
0. Scene Selections
1. Title/Credits/Intro. [:09]
2. Work. [4:29]
3. Pink Slips. [2:51]
4. Bad Bet. [2:23]
5. Doing It Wrong. [5:03]
6. The Jungle Out There. [1:10]
7. Supermarket Madness. [3:31]
8. "Hi Mommy!" [3:51]
9. Handy Man. [1:30]
10. New Executive. [3:09]
11. Hazardous Household. [1:11]
12. Company Picnic. [7:53]
13. Soap Opera Junkie. [6:37]
14. Poker With The Gals. [3:43]
15. Face-Off. [2:21]
16. Bad Dream. [1:57]
17. New Man. [5:36]
18. Man-To-Man Talk. [2:18]
19. Special Night. [2:18]
20. "Tuna With A Heart." [3:12]
21. Guilt Trip. [2:36]
22. Stand-Up Guy. [2:58]
23. Too Many Tuna Takes. [3:34]
24. Night Out. [1:13]
25. Bad Connection. [2:24]
26. A...B...C...D. [4:09]
27. One Big Happy Family. [3:52]
28. End Credits. [3:01]

Perry Seibert

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. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Michael Alaimo  Actor 
Michael Ensign  Actor 
Derek McGrath  Actor 
Maurice Sneed  Actor 
Mandy Ingber  Actor 
Frank Birney  Actor 
Lisa Freeman  Actor 
John O'Leary  Actor 
Tom Rayhall  Actor 
Valri Bromfield  Actor 
James Gallery  Actor 
Dennis Landry  Actor 
Estelle Omens  Actor 
Ken Hixon  Actor 
Patti Deutsch  Actor 
Robert Lussier  Actor 
Carolyn Seymour  Actor 
Gerry Black  Actor 
Bruce French  Actor 
Gaye Kruger  Actor 
Ken Olfson  Actor 
Charles Woolf  Actor 
Jacque Lynn Colton  Actor 
Lisa Richards  Actor 
Patty Dworkin  Actor 
Edie McClurg  Actor 
Phil Simms  Actor 
Bernadette Birkett  Actor 
Hilary Beane  Actor 
Miriam Flynn  Actor 
Danny Mora  Actor 
Roger Menache  Actor 
Lynn Loring  Producer 
Stan Dragoti  Director 
Lee Holdridge  Composer (Music Score) 
John Hughes  Screenwriter 
Art Levinson  Producer 
Lauren Shuler  Producer 
Aaron Spelling  Executive Producer 
Aaron Spelling  Producer 
Norman Steinberg  Screenwriter 
Michael Keaton  Actor 
Teri Garr  Actor 
Frederick Koehler  Actor 
Taliesin Jaffe  Actor 
Brittany White  Actor 
Martin Mull  Actor 
Ann Jillian  Actor 
Jeffrey Tambor  Actor 
Christopher Lloyd  Actor 
Thomas Leopold  Actor 
Graham Jarvis  Actor 

Country: USA