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Freaky Friday

1976

Gary Nelson

Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster, John Astin, Patsy Kelly ...

5.3

308

Comedy. Fantasy. Kids The original comedy classic that inspired Disney's hilarious hit remake with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Trading places was never so funny, and it could only happen on Friday the 13th! That's when the tomboyish and free-spirited Annabel (Jodie Foster) switches bodies with her straitlaced mother, Ellen (Barbara Harris), and suddenly finds herself responsible for running the entire household. In turn, Ellen, now in her daughter's ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Variety	"A promising concept (...) has been bungled by a talky, repetitive screenplay and overbroad direction."	NEG
United States	Heather Boerner Common Sense Media	"Kids may be bored (...) Still, the film is important not just because of the message, but also because it shows how much the image of the teen girl has changed over the past three decades."	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is one of the better recent Disney productions (...) The chases employ the skills of the Disney special effects people, and are amazing (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Good performances struggle gamely to overcome the increasingly predictable plot."	NEU
United States	Darren Franich Entertainment Weekly	"[Foster] looks believably bored, too cool for this lame farce. It’s worth watching, though, just for the incongruously epic car chase at the end"	NEU

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