Father and son Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron Moore was clearly having the most fun he has before a camera in some time. In fact, there are times Like Father, Like Son becomes downright hilarious thanks to the fine sense of comic timing from director Rod Daniel.Дudley Moore has some wonderfully foolish scenes вЂ“ smoking a cigarette for the first time in a starchy conference accidentally setting a couch on fire during a seduction attempt his reactions to watching MTV and some hilarious scenes as he attempts to affect teen idiom.

The pairing of Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron, who was then riding on the success of tvвЂ™s Growing Pains (1985-92) and had not yet become a squeaky clean Christian, is far better than one might think. Like Father, Like Son is the only one among these that did not bother with the whole bittersweet, wistful thing and played itself as an out-and-out comedy and as a result it comes with a far greater vitality and sense of fun than most of the others did. Others included the likes of Big (1988), 18 Again (1988), Vice Versa (1988), Chances Are (1989) and Dream a Little Dream (1989).

Like Father, Like Son was one among the spate of bodyswap comedies that came out over the 1988-89 period.

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