Freaky Friday

Chick Flick, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy

Jamie Lee Curtis	Tess Coleman
Lindsay Lohan	Anna Coleman
Mark Harmon	Ryan
Harold Gould	Grandpa
Chad Michael Murray	Jake
Stephen Tobolowsky	Mr. Bates
Christina Vidal	Maddie
Ryan Malgarini	Harry Coleman
Haley Hudson	Peg
Rosalind Chao	Pei-Pei

Director	Mark Waters
Producer	Andrew Gunn
Writer	Mary Rodgers; Heather Hach; Leslie Dixon

In the wonderfully entertaining Freaky Friday, teenager Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her forty-something psychiatrist mom Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) have sunk into a rut of frustrated bickering--until a magic spell causes them to switch bodies. Suddenly Tess finds herself faced with petty teachers, vicious rivals, and a hunky boy, while Anna has to cope with her mother's neurotic patients as well as her befuddled fiance (Mark Harmon), who doesn't understand why his bride-to-be is suddenly recoiling from his embrace on the eve of their wedding. Both Lohan and Curtis turn in deft, delightful performances, with Curtis showing a surprising flair for physical comedy. The movie even manages to explore serious issues about fractured families, new parents, and adolescent sexuality with honesty and empathy--and without making the story stop dead in its tracks. It's a mother-daughter film that fathers and sons can enjoy just as much. --Bret Fetzer