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Mr. Mom
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| Mr. Mom | |
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 Mr. Mom movie poster |
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| Directed by | Stan Dragoti |
| Produced by | Lynn Loring Lauren Shuler Donner |
| Written by | John Hughes |
| Starring | Michael Keaton Teri Garr Martin Mull |
| Music by | Bill Conti Barry De Vorzon |
| Cinematography | Victor J. Kemper |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | July 22, 1983 (limited) August 19, 1983 (wide) |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | unknown |
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Mr. Mom (1983) is a comedy film directed by Stan Dragoti and written by John Hughes. It stars Michael Keaton, Teri Garr, Jeffrey Tambor, Ann Jillian, Christopher Lloyd, and Martin Mull.
The film stars Michael Keaton and Teri Garr as Jack and Caroline Butler, a middle class couple with three kids living in Detroit, Michigan, struggling to make ends meet. Jack loses his engineering job at an automobile manufacturer. Though the auto industry is in a slump, they bet that Jack can get a job before Caroline, but Jack loses and has to stay at home with the kids.
When Caroline goes off to work, Jack discovers he is clueless about how to manage a household. He falls into depression as his ego and the household fall apart. Caroline has to travel with her womanizing boss (Martin Mull) and fends off his advances, eventually punching him in the nose. One of Jack and Caroline's neighbors (Ann Jillian) is trying to put the moves on Jack also.
Caroline returns home figuring she has lost her job. In the meantime, Jack has snapped out of his depression, fended off the neighbor lady and gotten the house and kids under control. Soon, Caroline's boss comes, begging her to come back, as a large client has demanded that only she can properly handle his account. Jack's boss comes also begging for Jack to return to work. He had made too many cuts in his design team and now could not produce what his managers were demanding and was in danger of losing his job.
The movie was based on the life of Don Demers, an engineer who was laid off from his job and decided to raise his children while his wife worked as an emergency room nurse. Demers is now an artist in Florida.
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