Like Father Like Son is a
1987-Events:*January 31 - The Cure for Insomnia premieres at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois, to officially become the world's longest film according to Guinness World Records.*May 9 - Actor Tom Cruise marries actress Mimi Rogers....
comedy film starring
Kirk CameronKirk Thomas Cameron is an American actor best-known for his role as Mike Seaver on the television situation comedy Growing Pains, as well as several other television and film appearances as a child actor...
and
Dudley MooreDudley Stuart John Moore, CBE was an English actor, comedian, composer and musician.Moore first came to prominence as one of the four writer-performers in Beyond the Fringe in the early 1960s and became famous as half of the popular television double-act he formed with Peter Cook...
. This film is a remake of the 1976 classic Disney film
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. The film is marketed with the 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." The film is one of three body swap comedies to appear in the space of a year, followed by
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and
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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 surgeon 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' buddy, Trigger (
Sean AstinSean Astin is an American film actor, director, and producer best known for his film roles as Mikey Walsh in The Goonies, the title character of Rudy, and Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy...
), 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. Still, 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' wife, not only sets the living room on fire, but also risks his father's chances of becoming chief of staff.
Soundtrack
- Autograph - "Dance All Night"
- Autograph - "She Never Looked That Good for Me"
- Mark Jordan - "I Ching"
- The Fabulous Thunderbirds
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- "It Comes to Me Naturally"
- Omar & the Howlers
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- "Hard Times in the Land of Plenty"
- Wang Chung
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- "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"Everybody Have Fun Tonight" is a song by Wang Chung from their album Mosaic. It was released as a single in 1986, reaching a high of #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S...
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- Aerosmith
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- "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)"Dude " is a song by Boston hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released as the first of 3 singles from the Permanent Vacation album in 1987. It reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, #41 on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, #4 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and peaked at #45 on the UK Singles Chart...
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- Ramones
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- Mötley Crüe
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- "All in the Name of..."
- Mötley Crüe
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- "Wild Side"Wild Side" is a single by the American hard rock band Mötley Crüe from their 1987 album Girls, Girls, Girls. The song peaked #20 on the US Hot 100 and #16 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks....
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Trivia
- Actor Jack Starrett
Jack Starrett was an American actor and film director. He is credited as Claude Ennis Starrett Jr. in some of his films...
, who played Coach Jennings also played Coach Jennings in the 1961 version of Like Father Like Son.
The school used in the film was John Marshall High School, which was also used in
Pretty in PinkPretty in Pink is a 1986 film about teenage love and social cliques in 1980s American high schools. It is one of a group of John Hughes movies starring Molly Ringwald, and is commonly identified as a "Brat Pack" movie...
The
Mojave DesertThe Mojave Desert , , locally referred to as the High Desert, occupies a significant portion of southeastern California and smaller parts of central California, southern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, in the United States...
and
Joshua Tree National ParkJoshua Tree National Park is located in southeastern California. Declared a U.S. National Park in 1994 when the US Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act , it had previously been a U.S. National Monument since 1936. It covers a land area of . A large part of the park is designated to...
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.
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