The body-swap storyline has been a tried and true storytelling device throughout film history, most often being utilized as a way to allow actors to portray characters completely different from what ...

This week brings a sequel 22 years in the making, “Freakier Friday.” The 2003 “Freaky Friday” was itself a remake of a 1976 Disney comedy, and in between, there was a 1995 TV movie version. Along the ...

The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch (“A dad joke of a movie,” according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...

Pixar's Hoppers manages to sidestep a long-held trope involving POC characters, and I greatly appreciate how refreshing the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 2003’s Freaky Friday, widowed psychiatrist Tess Coleman (Curtis) mysteriously wakes up in the ...

Most of the best-known body-swapping movies are comedies, and many of those follow the age-gap pattern of Freaky Friday, a 1976 adaptation of the Mary Rodgers’ YA novel where a mother and daughter ...

For me, watching Freakier Friday -- the new sequel to the 2003 body-switch comedy starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis -- led to a change in perspective: I was now a fan of two Freaky Friday ...

Next up in Talk of the Nation's Summer Movie Series is the identity switch. From Freaky Friday to Heaven Can Wait, Hollywood has been body... Summer Movies: The Great Body Switch Next up in Talk of ...

Jeremy Crabb is a film-focused freelance writer for Collider. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeremy first fell in love with cinema in 2005, when he made his first trip to the theater to ...

On most lists of “Best Body-Swap Movies,” you’ll find 2003’s Freaky Friday at, or near, the top. And for good reason: Mark Waters’ adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ 1972 novel of the same name might have ...