Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7848 in DVD
• Released on: 2004-04-26
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 93 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her fortysomething psychiatrist mum Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as her befuddled fiancé (Mark Harmon), who doesn't understand why his bride-to-be is suddenly recoiling from his embrace on the eve of their wedding. Both Lohan and Curtis turn in deft, delightful performances, with Curtis showing a surprising flair for physical comedy. The movie even manages to explore serious issues about fractured families, new parents and adolescent sexuality with honesty and empathy--and without making the story stop dead in its tracks. This 2003 remake of the 1977 original is a mother-daughter film that fathers and sons can enjoy just as much. --Bret Fetzer

From the studio
· Backstage Pass With Lindsay Lohan

· Freaky Bloopers

· Alternate Endings

· Deleted Scene

· PinkSlip Rocks!

· Garage Reheasal

· House of Blues

· Easter Egg: Tess's guitar solo

· 2 Music Videos

Synopsis
This classic story of mother (Jamie Lee Curtis) and daughter (Lindsay Lohan) swapping bodies is a remake of the 1976 film starring the 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 mum's wedding plans. Anna is a rebellious rocker, who plays guitar in a band and would rather flirt with older boys than listen to her worrying mother. One night, while the bickering 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 wedding 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 motorbike, and gives her mum 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, swear, and flirt like a teenager.

Customer Reviews

A Good Rental, Nothing More
I normally don't go for Disney family movies like this, but I'm a sucker for a good switching places gimmick. Basically, the plot revolves around Jamie Lee Curtis (the single mom) and Lindsay Lohan (the stereotypically rebellious teenaged daughter) switching bodies for a day after eating some magical fortune cookies. No joke, that's the cause of it. I expected to leave a certain amount of my brain at the door when watching this, so I didn't let this affect my outlook on the rest of the movie. The film's biggest downfall is that the mom and daughter, after switching bodies, don't really encounter any major problems that the average family can relate to. I mean, the mother comes from an upper-middleclass background and makes $70 an hour as a Psychiatrist. So the biggest problem that arises for the daughter after switching bodies is having to listen to people's problems for several hours, oh and having to promote her mom's book on TV. Both of which, incidentally, she manages to do better than her mother!

As for the daughter's problems...a teacher is out to make her life miserable because her mother refused to go to the Prom with him in highschool, and she needs to make it to this contest so that she and her friends who are in a band can reach superstardom. What mom and daughter wouldn't be able to relate to this?! A lot of wasted potential here that causes the film to lack any real emotional substance. Speaking of wasted potential, Mark Harmon's plays the completely bland and boring fiancee of Jamie Lee Curtis who seems to be oblivious to everything. This guy never loses his temper, always knows the right things to say, and never questions the mother and daughter's odd behavior! Did this guy switch bodies with the Pope or what?!? I won't even get started with the teenaged love interest of the daughter who is suddenly smitten by the mother (who's really the daughter) after a casual luncheon. If that's hard to swallow, imagine watching it.

Despite these negatives, I did enjoy the acting performances of Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis after they switched bodies. There was never a moment when I was not convinced that they really were in each other's bodies. Also, some of the insights that each learn after the switch are enjoyable to see, but as I stated earlier, they really should have been deeper and more meaningful. I'm sure preteens and some housewives might get a kick out of this, but I don't think that the average viewer will get involved in this candy-coated film where nothing bad happens and everybody lives happily ever after. But if you do like I did and keep reminding yourself that this is a Disney family movie, you should be able to gain pleasure out of it for a couple of viewings.

A great girly comedy!
I think most girls between 8-12 will love this film!
I first saw it at a friends house then bought it the next day!
The music is great too!

I love this film
I love this film. For the second time I have preferred the remake to the original and both featured LL. I could never stomach the actress who played the mom in the first film or Jodie Foster.

I can watch this version time after time and still laugh and cry especially at the pre-wedding dinner when Anna realises what a nice guy her future step father is and makes a speech welcoming him to the family and commenting that it is good to hear her mom singing in the shower again.

As a staunch LL fan, I cannot say enough about her acting skills.

In this film her timing is perfection and with Jamie Lee Curtis they make a great comedic duo with great on screen chemistry. Quote: (Anna in Mom's body) Oh my god, I've been visited by the crypt keeper.

I can thoroughly recommend this as a fantastic mom and daughter film to watch together, but don't forget the tissues.

I love it.