Freaky Friday Description
This classic story of mother (Jamie Lee
Curtis) and daughter (Lindsay Lohan) body switch is a remake of
the 1976 film starring a young Jodie Foster. Here, Tess Coleman
(Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family
while planning her second marriage. She's getting no help from her
teenage daughter, Anna (Lohan), who disapproves of her mom's
wedding plans. Anna is a rebellious rocker, who plays guitar in a
garage band and would rather flirt with older boys than listen to
her uptight mother. One night, while the warring mother and
daughter are at a Chinese restaurant, their fighting is overheard
by an elderly Chinese grandmother who curses their fortune cookie,
so that they wake up the next morning in each other's bodies. An
hysterical series of physical comedy routines show how Tess and
Anna are forced to live in each other's bodies for the day, which
happens to be the day of Tess's rehearsal dinner and Anna's band
audition for the House of Blues. Anna (in Tess's body) goes for a
spin on the back of her boyfriend's motorcycle, and gives her mom
a makeover, and Tess (in Anna's body) stands up to a high school
teacher. Jamie Lee Curtis is a comic genius in this challenging
role, which requires that she slouch, curse, and flirt like a
teen.
"...A quick-witted, perfectly modulated
family farce with a pair of beautifully matched performances from
Ms. Lohan and especially Ms. Curtis, who does some of her best
work ever..."
"...Curtis is one of the funniest and most
natural screen presences around....It all adds up to belly laughs
aplenty and a rollicking good time..."
"...Watching Curtis gently cut loose is one
of the low-key pleasures of the winsome generational comedy FREAKY
FRIDAY..."
"...A funny, shrewd, no-bull family
comedy....Curtis' empathy with girlhood, and her wry pleasure in
womanhood, is all about grace..."
"...Curtis and Lohan evince exceptional
comedic timing and a keen ability to ape one another's
characteristics..."
Theatrical Release: August 6, 2003
"The premise may be magical, but there's
enough psychological realism here to give audiences from pre-teens
to adults plenty to think about."
"[L]ively entertainment, thanks largely to
the fun Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan have in their
roles."
"FREAKY FRIDAY remains something of a
rarity: a remake that not only lives up to its predecessor, but
improves on it."
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