We've uncovered a weird phenomenon in movies and TV: You cast two actors to play a parent and child, and yet they're only a few years apart! Jack from
Will & Grace (
via TV Tropes) sums it up best: "This is just like
The OC, except without twenty-five-year-old teenagers and thirty-five-year-old parents." Since Hollywood values age, there's a weird suspension of disbelief where we have to go along with the ...