Product Details

• Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christina Vidal, Nathan Lane, Cyndi Lauper, David Krumholtz
• Directors: James Lapine
• Writers: Marc Lawrence
• Producers: Marc Lawrence, Scott Rudin, Teri Schwartz
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Walt Disney Video
• VHS Release Date: July 29, 1994
• Run Time: 91 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302945143
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,016 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Michael J. Fox's Mikey is the Broadway Danny Rose of child actors. A former child sitcom star turned half-hearted agent to a stable of overeager adolescents, he finds a natural talent when he watches a 12-year-old pickpocket (Christina Vidal) work a crowd to tears. Of course, nothing comes without a price, and the self-involved bachelor soon becomes the unlikely big brother to street-smart Vidal, who soon gives way to sunny cheer. Fox is such an inspired casting choice that most critics missed the undercurrent of self-loathing and loneliness in his impulsive irresponsibility and glib, effortless charm, and Nathan Lane is hilarious as his overworked brother and business partner. They don't get much help from the script, which bounces between smarmy showbiz satire and warm, fuzzy family comedy and winds up as neither, but they manage to make it funny nonetheless.--Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Funny, Good, Movie, March 16, 2002

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Jeff Meena (Floral Park, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Life With Mikey [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This was a funny movie. At sometimes it was a little confusing but good! I think kids who like to laugh or act would really like this movie. It has kids who are horrible actors, that make you laugh loudly. This is a Great Movie!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars "He's wacky, he's wild; He's ev'ryone's fav'rite child; It's Life With Mikey...", January 1, 2012

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life with Mikey (DVD)

LIFE WITH MIKEY is scripted and co-produced by Marc Lawrence. He wrote 31 episodes of FAMILY TIES, the TV sitcom that brought Michael J. Fox to prominence.
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In this cutesy family comedy of middling quality, Michael Chapman, an ex-kid TV star who bombed out by age 15, now operates with his brother Ed a talent agency for children. Long-suffering Ed (Lane) does all the work while the former "Mikey" (Fox) remains an irresponsible adolescent, even in his early 30s.

The main story occurs during the holiday season. It begins with street thief Angie (movie newcomer Vidal) bumping into Mike and picking his pocket. From this unlikely encounter, and from the way she wriggles out of an arrest for a different wallet-snatching, Mike recognizes in the pre-teen girl the makings of a TV commercial star. After much persuasion (and his promise of lots of money), Mike convinces Angie to audition for a series of cookie commercials. Eventually he's able to help Angie achieve success, both with her new career and in school.

Mike's mentoring extends to allowing the practically homeless child to stay at his bachelor apartment, a cluttered mess that Angie cleans up. He also gets her to reconcile with a father (Blades) who on his own initiative entered an upstate alcohol abuse program. For her part, Angie's several successes inspire Mike to take control of his own rudderless life.

A subplot has Ed Chapman on the edge of quitting the agency for a regular, mundane job. His endless, frustrating search for gifted children at open auditions turns up a parade of non-talents. These quickly-edited sequences of bad singers, dancers, magicians and actors are meant to be humorous, but they fall flat.

Young Barry (Krumholtz in his screen debut) is the swell-headed "star" of Mike's and Ed's humble agency. His awkward attempts to hit on new kid Angie fail miserably. (In recent years, Krumholtz appears briefly as "Goldstein" in three Harold & Kumar comedies.)

When Barry signs with another agent and Angie is caught shoplifting, Ed decides he's finally had enough. The Chapman brothers talent agency is finished. But wait... this is a family movie, right?

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Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 IMDb viewer poll rating.

(5.2) Life With Mikey (1993) - Michael J. Fox/Christina Vidal/Nathan Lane/Cyndi Lauper/David Krumholtz/Tony Hendra/Jerry Lawler/Mandy Patinkin (uncredited: Rubén Blades)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mikey- Priceless, February 5, 2009

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Nikkerra Holmes - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Life with Mikey (DVD)

I got this movie as a gift for someone and they were happy to see that I was able to find the movie they had been looking for. All the stores they went to said that it would be hard to get this movie since it was older. I knew that if I looked on this website I would find what I was looking for and I did. I am so glad that this seller had this movie because it not only made one person happy and made many people happy.