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Switch

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Original title

Switch

Year

1991

Running time

104 min.

Country

United States

Director

Blake Edwards

Screenwriter

Blake Edwards

Cast

Music

Henry Mancini

Cinematography

Dick Bush

Producer

Warner Bros.

Genre

Comedy. Fantasy

Synopsis

Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven, though, there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to earth in the body of a woman so that he can see how women are treated by men like the one he once was.

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Awards: 1991: Golden Globes: Nominated to Best Actress - Comedy/Musical (Ellen Barkin)

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Critics' reviews

"It's thoughtful as well as funny, and you never want to take your eyes off Barkin"

Jay Carr: Boston Globe
"If Edwards had somehow found a way to really grapple with the implications of his story - if he had pushed to see how far he could go - Switch might have been a truly revolutionary comedy"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"In the end, Switch isn’t a top-grade Edwards movie--though it shares with his best, a sparkling directorial panache and charm"

Michael Wilmington: Los Angeles Times
"A strangely mournful, lugubrious film, staggering under a sense of exhaustion that manages to stifle many of its own best laughs"

Dave Kehr: Chicago Tribune
"Switch is highly recommended for Barkin's work, which has to be considered on a par with Steve Martin's similar comic turn in All of Me"

Gene Siskel: Chicago Tribune
"The only redeeming thing in Switch is Barkin's vulgar and adept physical performance of a man literally trapped in a woman's body."

Steve Davis: Austin Chronicle
"It's up to Ellen Barkin to carry the movie, and she manages until the thing just becomes a dead weight"

Mick LaSalle: San Francisco Chronicle

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