Sick Product of a Sick System

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Kirk Cameron plays Kirk Hartman in Kirk and this series lasted a year on television. Given Cameron's fundamentalist parameters were lucky it lasted that long. Of course wife Chelsea Noble was part of this as well playing the girl in the same apartment building that Kirk was living a carefree bachelor life in as a commercial artist.But then his parents move to the United Kingdom and don't take his minor siblings with them. What kind of parents are these? So Kirk gets stuck with Will Estes, Taylor Fry, and Courtland Mead. He thinks they're cramping his style, but they might be the key to winning over Ms. Noble who develops a maternal instinct over them.The only other cast member in this series is Leonard Vanaria who is an alpha male in the tradition of Pat Harrington from One Day At A Time. He had some of the best lines in the series.It wasn't a horribly bad series, but Kirk wasn't a really good one. The kids never developed individual personalities and the show befitting its title concentrated on its star. Who was just becoming a controversial figure with his views. Critics were not going to cut Kirk Cameron a break.So Mr.&Mrs. Cameron left regular network television and we only now see them on religious based programming. A little known footnote in the controversial career of Kirk Cameron.

I enjoyed watching Kirk Cameron on TV. Growing Pains was an excellent comedy sitcom in the 80s. Kirk's show wasn't his best but that doesn't take away the charm he has on television. As a kid growing up watching Growing Pains I find it funny and I learned how adolescents grew up with two caring and supportive parents. Just like myself I had two supportive parents that loved and disciplined my sisters and I. Overall his show didn't do well but he made an impact on my life as a teenager. I would like to see him in more sitcoms but now he's married with a family of his own,and I didn't know if he's coming back to prime-time television. He deserves much success in what ever career he chooses.

This show was a humiliation to whatever TV has turned into. Aired on the WB (showing it's horrificness enough) for 3 years, it followed a plot line about an artist who's parents move to Europe and he is placed in charge of his 17-year-old brother, his 14-year-old sister and his 7-year-old bother, while wooing the beautiful neighbor. A way to similar plot line, and also very dull.