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<blockquote data-quote="Spells &amp; Karma" data-source="post: 323263" data-attributes="member: 23"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 22px">Freaky Friday </span></strong>(2003)</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.hmv.com%2Fr%2Fw-1280%2Fhmv%2Ffiles%2Fe9%2Fe906f919-0788-4c1f-8d2d-8ddd08e73758.jpg&f=1&nofb=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 394px" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">I'm fairly certain I've seen this one before. I've certainly seen at least clips of key scenes. And of course I would have watched the Jodie Foster original on rainy Bank Holiday afternoons when I was young. I also have that version lined up to watch at some point, but whimsy led me to the remake last night (a Friday, naturally), and it hit the spot.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Jamie Lee Curtis is the best thing in this. I remembered her being really funny as a girl stuck in her mother's body but, even with high expectations going in, I found myself laughing out loud. I don't know Lindsay Lohan for much other than the troubled teen reputation she had at one point, but she was likeable enough here. Mark Harmon was also very good, having a tougher job as the film's straight man. Harold Gould gets to go overboard as hard-of-hearing, short-sighted, panic-prone Grandad. Chad Michael Murray is in the perfect role as a supporting player, there for his pretty face (it's so refreshing to see how likeable he is here, and how much immediacy he brings just before beginning<em> One Tree Hill,</em> where his acting became more overwrought and pretentiously mannered by the year to the point I now find him painfully unwatchable). There's another future soap actor, with Julie Gonzalo as Lohan's bitchy ex-friend.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">Naturally, there are also some terrific character actors playing various teachers, counselling clients, etc. Stephen Tobolowsky is one of those faces that crops up in <u>everything</u>. Willie Garson likewise. And stealing the show from everyone except JLC is Lucille Soong as the woman who causes the switch.</p> <p style="text-align: center"></p> <p style="text-align: center">This is one of those films where the premise is so fun it's difficult for it not to work. Making it even more enjoyable is that - despite being made in 2003 - it feels very much like a late Nineties film.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spells & Karma, post: 323263, member: 23"] [CENTER][B][SIZE=6]Freaky Friday [/SIZE][/B](2003) [IMG width="394px"]https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.hmv.com%2Fr%2Fw-1280%2Fhmv%2Ffiles%2Fe9%2Fe906f919-0788-4c1f-8d2d-8ddd08e73758.jpg&f=1&nofb=1[/IMG] I'm fairly certain I've seen this one before. I've certainly seen at least clips of key scenes. And of course I would have watched the Jodie Foster original on rainy Bank Holiday afternoons when I was young. I also have that version lined up to watch at some point, but whimsy led me to the remake last night (a Friday, naturally), and it hit the spot. Jamie Lee Curtis is the best thing in this. I remembered her being really funny as a girl stuck in her mother's body but, even with high expectations going in, I found myself laughing out loud. I don't know Lindsay Lohan for much other than the troubled teen reputation she had at one point, but she was likeable enough here. Mark Harmon was also very good, having a tougher job as the film's straight man. Harold Gould gets to go overboard as hard-of-hearing, short-sighted, panic-prone Grandad. Chad Michael Murray is in the perfect role as a supporting player, there for his pretty face (it's so refreshing to see how likeable he is here, and how much immediacy he brings just before beginning[I] One Tree Hill,[/I] where his acting became more overwrought and pretentiously mannered by the year to the point I now find him painfully unwatchable). There's another future soap actor, with Julie Gonzalo as Lohan's bitchy ex-friend. Naturally, there are also some terrific character actors playing various teachers, counselling clients, etc. Stephen Tobolowsky is one of those faces that crops up in [U]everything[/U]. Willie Garson likewise. And stealing the show from everyone except JLC is Lucille Soong as the woman who causes the switch. This is one of those films where the premise is so fun it's difficult for it not to work. Making it even more enjoyable is that - despite being made in 2003 - it feels very much like a late Nineties film.[/CENTER] [/QUOTE]
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