One of the tried-and-true plot devices in all of storytelling is the idea of body switching. It's when two characters with opposite personalities switch bodies and then have to cope with what it's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Story-wise, it’s been more than two decades since daughter Anna ( Lohan) and mother Tess (Curtis) did that memorable one-day ...

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 ...

When the Freaky Friday sequel was first announced last year with Linday Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis (and pretty much the entire main cast) returning, our millennial hearts skipped a beat. For a lot of ...

Imagine Donald Trump wanted to reboot his disastrous presidential campaign announcement month to start over as a younger man with real hair. In Tarsem Singh’s Self/less, Trump could hire the medical ...

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 ...