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 ...

The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch ("A dad joke of a movie," according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...

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 ...

(L-R) Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis in 'Freakier Friday' Glen Wilson / Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / Everett Collection Mary Rodgers (daughter of famed Broadway composer Richard Rodgers) ...

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Adapting his own graphic novel, the Oscar-winning co-writer of 'Anatomy of a Fall' appears determined not to have any fun with a potentially fertile cross-gender, body-swap mystery. His apartment ...