The comparison to the Smile if you would do me mothers day shirt Apart from…,I will love this 1983 rom-com of the same name starring Michael Keaton and Teri Garr was not totally accurate. In the John Hughes–penned script that trades in gender role reversal quips, Keaton’s Jack Butler loses his job at a Detroit auto plant, leaving Garr’s Caroline, a housewife and mother of three, to dust off her briefcase to make ends meet. Keaton takes on all of the domestic duties while Garr resumes her career in advertising, and the hilarity ensues. Our relationship became transactional—and contentious. We barked reminders at one another about paying the mortgage and loading and unloading the dishwasher, playing a dangerous game of “whose day was harder?”
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