Life with Mikey
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| Directed by | James Lapine |
| Produced by | Scott Rudin Marc Lawrence |
| Written by | Marc Lawrence |
| Starring | Michael J. Fox Christina Vidal Nathan Lane Cyndi Lauper David Krumholtz |
| Music by | Alan Menken |
| Cinematography | Rob Hahn |
| Edited by | Robert Leighton |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2 million |
| Box office | $12,440,858 |
Life with Mikey (also known as Give Me a Break) is a 1993 comedy film starring Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane, Cyndi Lauper and David Krumholtz.
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Plot
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Mikey Chapman (Michael J. Fox), a former child star and now a talent agent for child stars, discovers Angie Vega (Christina Vidal, in her first movie), a girl who pick-pockets for money and lives with her teenage sister and her boyfriend. Together, they try to hit it big and earn her a role on a series of television commercials.
Cast
- Michael J. Fox as Michael "Mikey" Chapman
- Christina Vidal as Angie Vega
- Cyndi Lauper as Geena Briganti
- Nathan Lane as Ed Chapman
- David Krumholtz as Barry Corman
- David Huddleston as Mr. Corcoran
- Victor Garber as Brian Spiro
- Mary Alice as Mrs. Gordon
- Kathryn Grody as Mrs. Corman
- Paula Garcés as Janice
- Blake McGrath as Acrobat
- Phoebe Lapine as Andrews Sister #1
- Anna Rose Menken as Andrews Sister #2
- Ali Caplan as Andrews Sister #3
In popular culture
An episode of Spin City, "Life with Mikey", is titled with a nod to this film. It is the last episode in which Fox appears, having left the regular cast at the end of the 4th season due to his worsening Parkinson's disease. The daughter of the director of this movie Phoebe Lapine appeared in the film as one of the Andrews Sisters. Also, Anna Rose Menken, the daughter of the composer of the movie has appeared next to Phoebe Lapine in the beginning of the movie.
Reception
The movie received generally negative reviews.[1][2][3][4] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 22% of the 9 critics gave the film a positive review, with 2 fresh and 7 rotten review, with a rating average of 3.9 out of 10 and 39% of the audience liked it based on more than 8500 ratings.[5]
Box office
The movie debuted at No. 7.[6][7][8][9]
References
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External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). Life with Mikey at IMDb
- Life with Mikey at AllMovie
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