Freaky Friday *** (2003, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 2864

The Walt Disney studio enjoyably remakes its fondly remembered 1976 hit and 1995 TV movie, generation-swap, with Lindsay Lohan starring as Anna Coleman, who magically exchanges her 13-year-old brain for her stressed-out single mom Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis)’s 35-year-old body for one funky, frenetic, frenzied, freaky Friday.

And so, as mom has to go to school and the daughter work as a psychiatrist, it seems that the mother has the better deal!

The two hard-working, well-matched stars are very adept and amusing with the comedy in director Mark S Waters’s appealingly done, smart and professional 2003 update, expertly tailored for the market.

There are some good laughs and the old material does seem fresh and vibrant once more, though the Jodie Foster-Barbara Harris version still beats it. It is great, especially, to see Curtis in such fun form, though Lohan also shows a blossoming acting talent to admire.

Also in the cast are Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Stephen Tobolowsky, Christina Vidal, Ryan Malgarini, Haley Hudson, Rosaling Chao, Lucille Soong and Willie Garson.

© Derek Winnert 2015 Classic Movie Review 2864

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