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CommentsXp Best movie ever!

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

johnstonjames the original 'Freaky Friday' without a doubt proves that remakes are often botch jobs and pointless. for one thing, if you think the original material is good, why believe in all this so-called improvement.people who never get the original 'Friday' versus the remake, never understand the fundamental reasons for why the original is superior. first of all, the original is not only more like the book, it's a really dumb idea to make Annabel a seventeen year old like Lohan rather than a thirteen year old kid. hello. the role is written for a kid and not a older teen ager. the thought of a older, more mature seventeen year old acting like a spoiled young kid that doesn't understand adults is moronic. if you are seventeen and don't know something of what your parents are going through then you are developmentally challenged and need help. to make the character of Annabel as older defeats the whole message of the story. if you aren't somewhat mature by seventeen you need therapy. the story simply makes more sense when it's about a kid rather than a young adult.not to mention that Barbra Harris and Jodie Foster give much better performances than the slow witted, uninspired pseudo-nuttiness of Curtis and Lohan in the remake. the dialogue is also better and funnier in the original and lacks the pretentious restraint of the remake.a lot of people are often critical of the usual Disney "Donald Duck", cartoonish, final scenes in the original. the typical Disney "Donald Duck" slapstick endings can seem fairly routine in older Disney films, but hey, it was their signature trait, and it did help to identify them more as children's films than their contemporary counterparts that attempt to appeal to a more mature audience. besides, a lot of the goofy slapstick in the original film is hilarious. especially the scenes where they p-off the cops.some parents today might be a little put off by the fact that the mother smokes a cigarette and the house keeper accuses Annabel of smoking dope, these were unusual references for a Disney film of that time period, but the film actually takes a anti-smoking stance and the dope reference is made disapprovingly. otherwise there is little or nothing to take offense to.the original 'Freaky Friday' is one of classic Disney's best comedy/fantasy films and has obviously been remembered if not fully appreciated for what it created. a whole genre of switcheroo films like 'Big' and 'Like Father, Like Son'. can't say that's necessarily a great contribution to culture, but the original 'FF' is a funny and winning little film and deserves more respect as a original achievement than it is usually given credit for.

beresfordjd Never particularly loved this movie but it is lifted above the usual Disney fare by Jodie Foster, who was just totally incredible in this. You watch her and she nails the part - her performances in her movies are always better than great but to have been this good as a kid is kinda spooky, she delivers her lines so well. She is just about one of the finest actresses working in movies today along with Meryl Streep. It is so rare for a child to be as mature in performance as Jodie was. I guess the nearest child star in terms of performance is Haley Joel Osment. I have seen the remake with LL and JC but they just do not make such a good job of the parts as Jodie and Barbara (who seems to have disappeared from the movie scene-curse of the older actress).

bkoganbing Freaky Friday brings us to the home of John Astin and Barbara Harris with their children Jodie Foster and Sparky Marcus. Harris and Foster are constantly fighting, Foster is going through teen angst saying Mom doesn't understand her, Harris's life is not being made easy by having her first child going through the teen years.But on a fateful day where legend has it strange things do occur, one morning as the family is starting their day, the souls of Harris and Foster exchange bodies. After a lot of yelling and screaming the two decide to live each other's day as their new outward appearance dictates.The responsibilities of adulthood thrown on Foster's shoulders just overwhelm her. As for Harris it's not easy being a teen. It all adds up to some pretty funny moments. Best being Foster/Harris making a botch of a field hockey match and Harris/Foster on water skis. I've always liked the way the Disney Studio always gave a lot of old time players the character roles that they used to get in the old days. In particular here is Patsy Kelly in one of her last appearances as a maid who liked a cocktail every now and then.Freaky Friday proved to be one of the Magic Kingdom's most popular products. The recent remake with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis was as fresh as the original, though that one offered some kind of explanation for the strange occurrence.This version just let the magic speak for itself.

Neil Doyle Fluffy Disney comedy from the '70s has a pubescent JODIE FOSTER and mom BARBARA HARRIS wishing they could trade places--so they do, for a day, a wildly slapstick day that is totally absurd but hits the funny bone on more than one occasion. Jodie is the sloppy daughter and Harris the fussy housewife who finds fault with her daughter's every move.Mary Rodgers wrote the screenplay from her novel and Gary Nelson directed, but it has no more substance than a half-hour situation comedy stretched to the limits. Kids are the primary target audience, but adults will find the foolishness a bit forced and too much at times.In brief roles as soccer coaches, RUTH BUZZI and KAYE BALLARD do their broad comedy routines with finesse. The final chase on a wild auto ride and a water ski competition gone wild gives the film a good lift, but the script is nothing special and the situations are only funny enough to warrant an amused chuckle or two.Summing up: Lacks the wit and charm of a first-rate comedy, but gets by on the lead performances. The good premise must have looked better on paper than it does when executed on film.