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probably would have passed on this movie if it hadn’t been for a pre-teen friend of mine,
who told me how great it was. Of course, she later admitted to liking pretty much every
movie she’d ever seen (including Spider-Man, which I
hated). But I took her advice on this one anyway. Perhaps I was just looking for an
excuse to watch it…
Freaky Friday is a remake of the 1976 movie
starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster. In the updated-for-the-new-millennium version,
Lindsay Lohan plays Anna Coleman, a teenage girl who plays in a rock band, spends plenty
of quality time in detention, and has a huge crush on a guy named Jake (Chad Michael
Murray). Jamie Lee Curtis plays Anna’s mom, Tess, an uptight psychologist who’s trying
to balance her work, her family, and her upcoming wedding.
Like most
mothers and teenage daughters, Tess and Anna agree on very little. Tess thinks Anna’s
self-centered, and Anna thinks Tess is ruining her life. One night, while the two are
fighting in a Chinese restaurant, an old woman gives them a couple of fortune cookies,
which make them switch lives. On Friday morning—the day before Tess’s wedding—they wake
up in one another’s body. Each is forced to walk in the other’s shoes (literally!) until
they can figure out a way to change back.
Freaky Friday may be a
typical teen dramady with a touching message in the end, but who cares? It’s a fun
movie—once you get used to the fact that Tess is Anna in Tess’s body and vice versa, that
is. Jamie Lee Curtis is spectacular in her role as a teenager trapped in an “old”
woman’s body—one who ditches work to go on a shopping spree, fires the caterer for the
wedding after finding out that they’re preparing halibut, and tells one of her patients
that her habit of sneaking peeks at her daughter’s diary is “gross.”
Freaky Friday is a fun family movie. Let your daughter/little
sister/niece watch it with her friends at her next slumber party—then watch it yourself
after the kids are asleep. Just don’t let her know that you liked it, too. She’ll be
devastated.
Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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Kristin Dreyer Kramer has been writing in some form or another (usually when she was supposed to be doing something else) since the ripe old age of ten—when she, her cousin, and their two Cabbage Patch Dolls formed the Poo Authors’ Club. After a short career in advertising, Kristin got sick of always saying nice things about stuff that didn’t deserve it—so now she spends her days criticizing things, and she’s much happier for it.
Since creating NightsAndWeekends.com in February of 2002, Kristin has spent her life surrounded by piles and piles of books and movies—so many that her office has become a kind of entertainment obstacle course.
As if her writing and editing responsibilities for N&W.com weren’t enough to keep her out of trouble, Kristin also hosts a number of weekly radio shows: Reel Discovery, Shelf Discovery, and On the Marquee. She’s also a proud member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (CriticsChoice.com), the Central Ohio Film Critics Association (COFCA.org), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS.org), and the Women Film Critics Circle (WFCC.Wordpress.com).
Kristin lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her husband, Paul, and their daughter, Anna. She welcomes questions, comments, and fan mail at kdk@nightsandweekends.com.
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