Freaky Friday
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I probably would have passed on this movie if it hadn’t been for a pre-teen friend of mine, who told me how great it was. Of course, she later admitted to liking pretty much every movie she’d ever seen (including Spider-Man, which I hated). But I took her advice on this one anyway. Perhaps I was just looking for an excuse to watch it…

Freaky Friday is a remake of the 1976 movie starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster. In the updated-for-the-new-millennium version, Lindsay Lohan plays Anna Coleman, a teenage girl who plays in a rock band, spends plenty of quality time in detention, and has a huge crush on a guy named Jake (Chad Michael Murray). Jamie Lee Curtis plays Anna’s mom, Tess, an uptight psychologist who’s trying to balance her work, her family, and her upcoming wedding.

Like most mothers and teenage daughters, Tess and Anna agree on very little. Tess thinks Anna’s self-centered, and Anna thinks Tess is ruining her life. One night, while the two are fighting in a Chinese restaurant, an old woman gives them a couple of fortune cookies, which make them switch lives. On Friday morning—the day before Tess’s wedding—they wake up in one another’s body. Each is forced to walk in the other’s shoes (literally!) until they can figure out a way to change back.

Freaky Friday may be a typical teen dramady with a touching message in the end, but who cares? It’s a fun movie—once you get used to the fact that Tess is Anna in Tess’s body and vice versa, that is. Jamie Lee Curtis is spectacular in her role as a teenager trapped in an “old” woman’s body—one who ditches work to go on a shopping spree, fires the caterer for the wedding after finding out that they’re preparing halibut, and tells one of her patients that her habit of sneaking peeks at her daughter’s diary is “gross.”

Freaky Friday is a fun family movie. Let your daughter/little sister/niece watch it with her friends at her next slumber party—then watch it yourself after the kids are asleep. Just don’t let her know that you liked it, too. She’ll be devastated.

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