IMDb RATING
5.2/10
6.6K
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A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.A mysterious potion switches the personalities of a buttoned-up doctor and his laid-back son.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Randy Lowell
- Dr. Spellner
- (as Randolph Dreyfuss)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaStar Dudley Moore was immediately smitten with Like Father Like Son (1987). Moore said: "The idea of swapping bodies appealed to me, and it was a good excuse to be a kid again . . . although I don't need an excuse. It was just a fun story. I had been sixteen years old once, and I don't pretend to be a professional adult. I really didn't play a sixteen year old. I think that would have been mildly boring. So, instead of going for accuracy, we went for the fun of the situation. I was playing an attitude, not an age".
- GoofsWhen Chris (Dr. Hammond) is delivering the baby, he picks it up immediately after the birth to reveal that the umbilical cord has already healed, and the baby is perfectly clean and dry.
- Quotes
Chris Hammond: How can she stand to be so close to her own body without constantly feeling herself up?
- ConnectionsEdited into Left Behind: Like Son (2013)
Featured review
Someone must have thought that all this movie needed to succeed was Kirk Cameron to pull in the teenage girls and Dudley Moore to pull in their parents. Somehow they forgot that Kirk is incapable of pulling off anything in the way of depth in his acting and Dudley in a role like this would get carried away with its silliness.
The premise was old, the dialogue poor, the situations strained, and the acting cartoonish. The result is a bad movie with a fading teen heartthrob and a fifty-something actor playing his Arthur character at the age of ten. If anyone finds this in a 'sale' bin for used videos, try to bury it farther down where it can be avoided and forgotten.
The premise was old, the dialogue poor, the situations strained, and the acting cartoonish. The result is a bad movie with a fading teen heartthrob and a fifty-something actor playing his Arthur character at the age of ten. If anyone finds this in a 'sale' bin for used videos, try to bury it farther down where it can be avoided and forgotten.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Official site
- Language
- Also known as
- Like Father, Like Son
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $10,500,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $34,377,585
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $7,189,452
- Oct 4, 1987
- Gross worldwide
- $34,377,585
- Runtime1 hour 40 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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