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And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird! is a american film of genre Science fiction released in USA on 15 november 1991 with Marcia Strassman
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird! (1991)
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird
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Add to a movie listAnd You Thought Your Parents Were Weird is a 1991 science-fiction family film written and directed by Tony Cookson; foreign language releases were titled RoboDad.
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Two boys, Joshua (Joshua John Miller) and Max (Edan Gross) attempt to invent a fully mobile robot with advanced artificial intelligence to help their mother, Sarah (Marcia Strassman) with household chores. However, after a playfully performed séance on Halloween, the ghost of their late father, Matthew (Alan Thicke) possesses the robot. The boys are overjoyed at the return of their father, but it soon becomes apparent that the people who stole their father's work are after their robot, Newman. Eventually, Matthew returns to the afterlife after setting his boys on the right path as they sell the plans for their robot to a rich Texan investor.Actors
Marcia Strassman
(Sarah Carson)
Joshua John Miller
(Josh Carson)
Edan Gross
John Quade
(Walter Kotzwinkle)
Sam Behrens
(Steve Franklin)
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