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Article: 'VICE VERSA' A SWITCH COMEDY THAT WORKS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 11, 1988
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VICE VERSA -- Directed by Brian Gilbert, screenplay by Dick
Clement and Ian La Frenais. Starring Judge Reinhold, Fred
Savage, Corinne Bohrer, Swoosie Kurtz, Jane Kaczmarek,
David Proval, William Prince, Gloria Gifford. At the
Charles and suburbs, rated PG (profanity).
"Vice Versa" is a lot better than the last boy-dad body-switch
comedy, "Like Father, Like Son." This time it's Judge Reinhold, a
divorced yuppie workaholic at a Chicago department store, who
changes places with his 11-year-old son, Fred Savage, after they
both touch a mystical Oriental skull. Where Dudley Moore overdid
the hysteria at finding himself in high school again, Reinhold
settles into ...