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FREAKY FRIDAY (Dir: Gary Nelson, 1976).
Walt Disney Productions' Freaky Friday is an early example of the 'body swap' comedy.
It tells the story of frustrated housewife Ellen Andrews (Barbara Harris) and her daughter Annabel (Jodie Foster). Following an argument on the morning of Friday the 13th the pair wish to change places, both believing the other has the more desirable life. Magically their wish is granted. Mom has to try to make it through a school day, while daughter deals with the pressures of housework. Comedy high jinks ensue.
While its concept no longer seems original, Freaky Friday is still a fairly fresh and funny movie, largely due to the excellent performances from its leads. Jodie Foster is terrific as the 35 year old mind in the body of a 13 year old, but the real revelation is Barbara Harris. Playing baseball with a team of 8 year olds, flirting with a teenage neighbour, having a meltdown over household chores; Harris perfectly captures the manic mind of 13 year old let loose in the body of a grown woman, proving herself an adept comedy actress in a fairly demanding physical role. Solid support from John Astin as bemused husband/father Bill Andrews, Sparky Marcus as Annabel’s brother ‘Ape Face’, Marc McClure as neighbourhood crush Boris and Patsy Kelly as the Andrew’s boozy housekeeper round out an appealing principle cast.
For the most part director Gary Nelson avoids the formulaic, cookie-cutter approach associated with Disney comedy movies of the era, thanks to Mary Rodger's superior script which stays close to spirit of her book. The movie occasionally veers a little too far into slapstick but most of it works and there are more big laughs than not. The mother/daughter relationship at the movies core is completely believable, through the misunderstandings to the inevitable reconciliation. The denouncement is nicely handled, not too sentimental and quite touching.
Freaky Friday is a good natured romp, with plenty of big laughs and let's be honest, who among us hasn't wondered what it would be like to switch places with Jodie Foster?
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A BILLION FOR BORIS (Dir: Alex Grasshoff, 1984).
A Billion for Boris is the film adaptation of Mary Rodgers' sequel to her novel Freaky Friday.
Repairing an old TV set, Ben ‘Apeface’ Andrews (Seth Green) fixes it to show the next day’s programmes. He duly shares this information with his sister Annabel (Mary Tanner) and friend Boris (Scott Tiler). Seeing the money making potential, Boris heads off to bookies, but his winning streak attracts the unwanted attention of gangsters.
A movie version of Freaky Friday (Gary Nelson) was released by Walt Disney Productions in 1976. Although popular, Disney chose not to film either of Rodgers’ published sequels. A Billion for Boris was brought to the screen almost a decade later courtesy of independent Comworld Pictures.
As such, it is an adaptation of the sequel to the novel, rather than a sequel to the Disney feature. The setting, as in Rodgers’ books, is a New York apartment block, not the suburban Los Angeles of Disney’s Freaky Friday. The events of the earlier movie are not referenced, with the exception of the firing of the Andrews’ housekeeper for stealing liquor.
As a low budget production, A Billion for Boris lacks the polish of Freaky Friday. Also missing is Rodgers’ prose; as screenwriter of the original movie she captured much of the spirit of her book, even though significant changes were made to the plot.
Its largely unrecognisable cast doesn’t have the appeal of the previous movie. Of the adults, Lee Grant does a neat turn as Boris’ quirky mom. Future star Seth Green is standout among the kids as ‘Ape Face’.
In spite of this, it is still an entertaining movie. Some might question the theme of underage gambling and while it would raise a few eyebrows today, I doubt it did in 1984. Use it as opportunity to discuss with your kids the morality of betting if you will, but I wouldn’t let it put you off.
While A Billion for Boris doesn’t raise big laughs it does provides some chuckles. I am fairly certain I won’t revisit it as often as Freaky Friday, a childhood favourite that holds up as an adult. However, it does hold curiosity value to fans of that movie and is undemanding, lightweight fun.
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FREAKY FRIDAY (Dir: Steve Carr, 2018)
Disney have certainly gotten their money’s worth out of Freaky Friday. This Disney Channel Original Movie is the studio’s fourth adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ novel and is itself based upon Disney Theatrical Productions 2016 stage musical, with music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey and book by Bridget Carpenter.
The now familiar tale of the mother and daughter at loggerheads who switch bodies for a day is tweaked and refreshed for a new generation of tweens. Here Cozi Zuehlsdorff is a teenager still grieving the death of her father five years earlier and Heidi Blickenstaff her stressed mother on the eve of remarrying. This time a magical hourglass is the catalyst for the swap. A scavenger hunt is shoehorned in, recalling another earlier Disney Production, the cult favourite Midnight Madness (David Wechter & Michael Nankin, 1980).
I have been a fan of the original Freaky Friday (Gary Nelson, 1976) and the 1972 Mary Rodgers novel upon which it is based almost all of my life. This most recent version deviates significantly from both movie and source. While the original is undoubtedly the best, this new Freaky Friday is a lot of fun. Kitt and Yorkey’s High School Musical-style soft rock is easy on the ear, although the vocals suffer from the same apparent ‘tweaking’ effect which Disney Channel musicals always seem to do. Steve Carr's direction doesn’t belie the movies TV roots, while Blickenstaff and Zuehlsdorff step into the legendary shoes of Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster with an appealing enthusiasm which is hard to resist. Come the inevitable climactic big song and dance number this tween movie had worked its warm-hearted magic of this middle age movie critic.
I must confess to having a soft spot for Disney Channel movies. No one would argue that they are cinematic masterpieces, but most offer 90 minutes of lightweight fun. If you are a fan you will know what to expect, if you’re not this won’t be the movie to change your mind. Freaky Friday won’t change the world but it should bring a smile to the faces of those looking for goodnatured, undemanding entertainment.
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FREAKY FRIDAY (Dir: Mark Waters, 2003).
Walt Disney Pictures’ Freaky Friday is, to date, the studios’ third of four screen adaptations of Mary Rodgers’ popular 1972 comic novel.
Here a trip to a Chinese restaurant and a mysterious fortune cookie is the catalyst for switching the mind and bodies of overbearing middle age mother Dr Tess Goldman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her rebellious, rock chick teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan). Unfortunately the switch coincides with Tess' marriage rehearsal and Anna's band Pink Slip's chance to audition for a performance slot at House of Blues.
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Wwdits pulling a voldemort and squirrel head, freaky friday shit isnt even the most unexpected thing to ever happen in this episode...
i like yuta taking over gojos corpse or whatever but it wouldve been really cool if gojos corpse was like immovable. refusing to decompose its just there on the battlefield; blah blah blah dead gods still answer prayers
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started doing the freaky friday musical so now i'm obligated to establish a fandom: (ellie's dad will officially now be named david, sorry guys)
au where katherine and torrey start the cooking business together and torrey isn't really good with kids so she almost kills fletcher and katherine has to figure out how to teach her how to deal with kids, and torrey ends up being able to reach ellie a lot better than katherine because she's so different from david so it feels less like her mom's trying to replace him
au in which fletcher was born after david's death, and is his reincarnation
huuuge conspiracy theory: what if torrey (who in this conspiracy is Mrs. Time's daughter) and katherine had a short one-night thing while katherine was married to david, and while katherine did her best to forget about it bc she wants a happy marriage but torrey didnt! torrey had lasting feelings, and forged a magic hourglass to give to david (i think he died bc of medical issues, maybe torrey was like a doctor or something so she knew him) so that she could switch places with him and be with katherine, but it didnt work he just asked her for another one so he could give one to his wife and daughter, then after david died she decided to wait a lil until katherine had mourned, but then she met mike and they hit it off so torrey realizes shit, and starts trying to sabatoge their marriage. she switches katherine and ellie bc she knows that they'll ruin each others' lives, and in that ruin torrey can reach out to katherine. torrey isn't very familiar with kids, so she's really surprised at how messy ellie!katherine is. and she doesn't realize they can switch with just strong emotion- torrey triggered the initial switch bc she wanted to ruin the marriage and was planning on not switching them back until mike was a lost cause, but then they switch at the wedding and torrey's like
idc, fletcher's puppets canonically move when you're not watching like toy story. post-canon adam's kinda jerkish to ellie and also seems to be crushing on her mom and she kinda gets weirded out, and rants about it to fletcher. fletcher gets mad, but can't really do anything, so his puppet Angry Bob (an angry purple hippo) absorbs the emotion, goes out and murders adam with more than 43 stabs to the heart. the news doesn't publish the fact that it was adam who died, he just stops coming to school and ellie figures he's just abandoned her, so oh well. then fletcher eventually goes "hey ellie?" "what" "angry bob killed your boyfriend" "what???" *in angry bob voice* "i killed yer boyfriend, lady, with 46 stabs to the chest" "fletcher, stop" *giggles, leaves*
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