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Charming remake
Freaky Friday (English)
Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan
Director: Mark Waters
FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Anna and her super busy psychologist mum, Tess, do not agree on anything - from clothes and music to men. Tess cannot understand Anna's need to be at a music try out at the precisely the same time as Tess's wedding rehearsal dinner. Anna feels that no one can take the place of her dead father, least of all Tess' fiancé Ryan. Tess naturally feels the boy Anna finds cute, Jake, is too old for her - the fact they met at detention does not help Jake's cause too much.
With neither mother nor daughter willing to stand down, it is left to a couple of fortune cookies to unleash some mystic mayhem and Tess and Anna wake up on Friday morning to find their bodies have been switched.
Anna has a field day with Tess' credit cards, car and neurotic patients while Tess discovers the minefield that masquerades as high school. Tess also discovers the joys of junk food - "I have not tasted French fries in eight years," she sighs as she gorges on them in Anna's body. Based on a book by Mary Rodgers, Freaky Friday is a remake of a 1976 film, which boasted of a teenage Jodie Foster playing Anna.
Jamie Lee Curtis has incredible comic timing as we all know from A Fish Called Wanda and True Lies. Here she is in her element as multi-tasking mum and mind-blowing as Anna in Tess' body. Her performance is so pitch perfect that you forget it is Curtis and feel like you are watching a fifteen-year-old in an older woman's body. Lindsay Lohan is a perfect foil to Curtis as Anna.
The men Mark Harmon (Ryan), Chad Michael Murray (Jake) Harold Gould (Grandpa) and Haley Hudson as Tess' son Harry lend wonderful support. The film climaxes with a rock show at the House of Blues with Curtis doing an amazing guitar solo. The movie is smart and funny with delightful little touches as far as clothes, make up, hair and music go. And best of all, the film as a huge heart - a perfect prescription for rainy days and budget blues.
MINI ANTHIKAD-CHHIBBER
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