Man of the House (1995 film) television spots. The film was panned by critics, and has a rating of 14% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 14 reviews. The film did moderately well at the box office, grossing about $40 million domestically. The film was released in the United Kingdom on June 9, 1995. Man of the House (1995 film) Man of the House is a 1995 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase, Farrah Fawcett and Jonathan Taylor Thomas. The film is about a boy (Thomas) who must come to terms with his potential stepfather (Chase), a well meaning lawyer who is unknowingly the subject of a
Richard E. Grant Park", "Bright Young Things", and "Penelope". While filming "L.A. Story" with Steve Martin, the pair communicated by fax in what became for both a hilarious dialogue: "I kept these faxes, which grew to a stack more than 2in thick, because they entertained me, and because I thought they were valuable aesthetic chunks from a screeching mind, a stream-of-consciousness faucet spewing sentences – sometimes a mile long – none of it rewritten, and bearing just the right amount of acid and alkaline." In 1995, Grant starred as the titular character in Peter Capaldi's short film "Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life".