Freaky Friday (2003 film)
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Freaky Friday is a 2003 film based on the novel of the same name
Freaky Friday
Freaky Friday is a classic comedic children’s novel written by Mary Rodgers first published in the USA in 1972, and adapted for film several times.-Plot:...

 by Mary Rodgers
Mary Rodgers
Mary Rodgers is an American composer of musicals and an author of children's books. She is a daughter of composer Richard Rodgers and his wife, Dorothy Rodgers, as is her sister, Linda Rodgers Emory...

. It stars Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11...

 as Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...

 as her mother. In the film their bodies are switched due to an enchanted Chinese
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 fortune cookie
Fortune cookie
A fortune cookie is a crisp cookie usually made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and oil with a "fortune" wrapped inside. A "fortune" is a piece of paper with words of faux wisdom or a vague prophecy...

. It also stars actors Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon is an American actor who has been starring in American television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.-Early life:Harmon was born Thomas...

 and Chad Michael Murray
Chad Michael Murray
Chad Michael Murray is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray is well known for portraying Lucas Scott in The CW young adult drama series One Tree Hill, in addition to the commercially successful films A Cinderella Story, Freaky Friday and House of Wax...

.

This is the third time this film has been made by Disney, and the second in ten years. The original film
Freaky Friday (1976 film)
Freaky Friday is a 1976 American comedy film starring Jodie Foster as Annabel Andrews and Barbara Harris as her mother.The film is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, in which mother and daughter switch bodies and get a taste of each others' lives. The cause of the switch is left...

 was made in 1976 and starred Barbara Harris
Barbara Harris (actress)
Barbara Harris is an American actress who was a Broadway stage star and later became a film actress. She appeared in such films as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank...

 as the mother and Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....

 as the daughter. A 1995 television remake
Freaky Friday (1995 film)
Freaky Friday is a 1995 television film based on the book Freaky Friday.-Plot:A mother, Ellen, and daughter Annabelle find it difficult to get along with each other, each professing that the other has no idea what her life is like...

 was produced for ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...

.

Plot

Anna Coleman (Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11...

) is an average teenage rebel whose constant victims of her nature are her stodgy mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...

) and annoying younger brother Harry. Sources of irritation include a rock band Anna is in, which her mother dislikes, and Tess's upcoming wedding to a man named Ryan, which Anna is emotionally not ready for because her father died three years ago. Also contributing to Anna's irritation is her enemy, Stacey Hinkhouse, who never seems to stop torturing her and has convinced Tess that she and Anna are still best friends (they used to be friends years ago), and Anna's English teacher, Mr. Bates, who gives her an F on every assignment, no matter how hard she tries.

When the family eat out in a Chinese restaurant, Anna and Tess quickly start fighting again: Anna wishes to participate with the rest of her band in a band audition, however the show is the same night as Tess's wedding rehearsal. Hearing the argument, an elderly Chinese woman offers Anna and Tess both fortune cookies. Upon opening them, there is a short earthquake which only they feel.

The next day, Tess wakes up and discovers that she is in Anna's body, with Anna in her mother's body. Confused and unable to work out how to return to their rightful bodies on their own, they decide to go back to the restaurant to find out what happened. Since Anna has an important test and Tess must go to work, the two are forced into each others roles. At school, "Anna" not only discovers her daughter was right about Stacey, but she is also given a bad grade from Mr. Bates even though she got all the answers correct, and realizes that he is a former classmate of hers whom she had turned down when he had asked her to the School Prom and he is taking it out on Anna. "Anna" confronts Mr. Bates over this in front of Anna's friends, humiliating him and warning him to stop his treatment of 'her' or he will be reported to the school board.

After work with "Tess" primarily forced to feign her way through most of her mother's appointments apart from a case involving a mother's concerns over her daughter, "Tess" gives her mother's body a makeover, including new clothes, a new haircut, and an ear piercing. Then, the two go to the restaurant again and talk to Pei-Pei, the daughter of the woman that gave them the fortune cookies. Furious at her mother's meddling but unable to directly help them, Pei-Pei advises them to read the fortunes in the cookies, as when the fortunes come true, they will swap back.

In the afternoon, "Tess" attends Harry's parent-teacher conference, where she reads a composition he wrote about how much Harry admires Anna, but provoked fights so that she would pay attention to him. When "Anna" takes Anna's test, Stacey writes a note and places it on her desk for "Anna" to read, but then makes it look like "Anna" is cheating, landing her in detention. "Anna" is able to finish the test later with the help of Jake, an older student that Anna had a crush on. She also gets revenge on Stacey by erasing all of the answers on her test paper and writing "I'M STUPID!" on it.

Meanwhile, Ryan surprises "Tess" with an interview on a talk show to discuss her new psychology book. "Tess" is unable to discuss the meaning of the book, which she has not read, so she improvises by turning the show into a wild romp while angering "Anna", who sees the interview on TV, in the process. Afterwards, "Tess" sees Jake at a coffee shop and bonds with him over similar musical interests. Jake then begins to fall for "Tess", when he notices all the characteristics he likes about Anna.

At the wedding rehearsal that evening, "Anna" and "Tess" read the fortune, stating "when what you see is what you lack, then selfless love will change you back", but leaves them overly confused. Anna's bandmates come to try to convince "Anna" to go to the audition, but ultimately decides to use force. However, the bandmates are caught by security, but Ryan surprises "Anna" and "Tess" when he gives her permission to go. He also tells "Tess" that he wanted Anna to accept him into the family on her own and that he wants "Tess" to go watch her. Seeing Ryan in a new light, "Tess" leaves to watch her band perform.

At the audition, "Anna" is unable to play the guitar so "Tess" unplugs it and plays another guitar backstage while "Anna" mimes along. The band does a great job and for the first time, "Anna" realizes how much fun Anna has playing in her band. Back at the wedding rehearsal, "Anna" asks "Tess" to have Ryan postpone the wedding, so that Anna will not have to go through marrying him in her mother's body. Instead, "Tess" proposes a toast where she finally accepts Ryan by realizing how happy he makes Tess. There is a second earthquake that everyone feels and Anna and Tess switch back into their own bodies.On the wedding day Tess and Ryan marry and Anna and Jake meet and while dancing they share a kiss. By the end of the film Anna shares a song named "Ultimate".

Cast

  • Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis
    Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress and author. Although she was initially known as a "scream queen" because of her starring roles in several horror films early in her career, such as Halloween, The Fog, Prom Night and Terror Train, Curtis has since compiled a body of work that spans many...

     as Tess Coleman/Anna Coleman
  • Lindsay Lohan
    Lindsay Lohan
    Lindsay Lohan is an American actress, pop singer and model. She began her career as a child fashion model before making her motion picture debut in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap at the age of 11...

     as Anna Coleman/Tess Coleman
  • Mark Harmon
    Mark Harmon
    Mark Harmon is an American actor who has been starring in American television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.-Early life:Harmon was born Thomas...

     as Ryan
  • Harold Gould
    Harold Gould
    Harold V. Goldstein , best known by his stage name Harold Gould, was an American actor best known for playing Martin Morgenstern in the 1970s sitcoms Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show and as Miles Webber in The Golden Girls...

     as Grandpa
  • Chad Michael Murray
    Chad Michael Murray
    Chad Michael Murray is an American actor, former fashion model and spokesperson. Murray is well known for portraying Lucas Scott in The CW young adult drama series One Tree Hill, in addition to the commercially successful films A Cinderella Story, Freaky Friday and House of Wax...

     as Jake
  • Stephen Tobolowsky
    Stephen Tobolowsky
    Stephen Harold Tobolowsky is an American actor. He is well known for his role as Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, as well as portraying Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwood for nine episodes and Bob Bishop in Heroes for eleven episodes over the second and third seasons...

     as Mr. Bates
  • Christina Vidal
    Christina Vidal
    Christina Abbi Vidal is a former American film and television actress. She is best known for her roles in the films Life with Mikey, Brink! , Freaky Friday ,...

     as Maddie
  • Ryan Malgarini as Harry Coleman
  • Haley Hudson
    Haley Hudson
    Haley Kaye Hudson is an American actress from Chicago, Illinois.-Filmography:-External links:...

     as Peg
  • Rosalind Chao
    Rosalind Chao
    Rosalind Chao is a Chinese American actress. Chao's most prolific roles have been as a star of CBS' AfterMASH portraying South Korean refugee Soon-Lee Klinger for both seasons, and the recurring character Keiko O'Brien with 27 appearances on the syndicated science fiction series Star Trek: The...

     as Pei-Pei
  • Lucille Soong
    Lucille Soong
    Lucille Soong is a Chinese American film and television actress. She has guest starred on several present-day television series which include a recurring role on the ABC primetime soap Desperate Housewives as Gabrielle Solis' former maid, Yao Lin...

     as Pei-Pei's Mother
  • Willie Garson
    Willie Garson
    Willie Garson is an American character actor. He has appeared in over 50 movies, usually playing minor roles...

     as Evan
  • Dina Waters as Dottie Robertson
  • Julie Gonzalo
    Julie Gonzalo
    Julie Gonzalo is an Argentine-American actress. She is known for her roles as Parker Lee in Veronica Mars, Shelby in A Cinderella Story and Maggie Dekker in Eli Stone. She has been in two movies with Chad Michael Murray: Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story...

     as Stacey Hinkhouse
  • Cayden Boyd
    Cayden Boyd
    Cayden Michael Boyd is an American teen actor. He is best known for his main character role as Max in the Robert Rodriguez's film The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D.-Life:...

     as Harry's Friend
  • Dina Lohan
    Dina Lohan
    Donata "Dina" Lohan is a television personality and occasional actress who rose to fame as the mother and manager of actress/pop singer Lindsay Lohan, and Lindsay's younger sister Ali Lohan, with whom Dina co-starred in the reality show Living Lohan.-Family and marriage:Lohan was born and raised...

     as Woman Dancing at Wedding (uncredited)

Production

The film's producer Andrew Gunn said he initially hoped Jodie Foster
Jodie Foster
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is an American actress, film director, producer as well as a former child actress....

 (who played the daughter Annabel in the original 1976 Freaky Friday film) would be interested to play the mother in the remake. Foster declined in order to spend more time with her family and because of concerns that the casting stunt
Stunt
A stunt is an unusual and difficult physical feat, or any act requiring a special skill, performed for artistic purposes in TV, theatre, or cinema...

 would overshadow the movie's overall merit. Annette Bening
Annette Bening
Annette Carol Bening is an American actress. Bening is a four-time Oscar nominee for her roles in The Grifters, American Beauty, Being Julia and The Kids Are All Right, winning Golden Globe Awards for the latter two films...

 was then cast in the role, but dropped out because of family obligations. Jamie Lee Curtis was given the role only four days before filming began.

Lindsay Lohan's character was originally written as a Goth
Goth subculture
The goth subculture is a contemporary subculture found in many countries. It began in England during the early 1980s in the gothic rock scene, an offshoot of the post-punk genre. The goth subculture has survived much longer than others of the same era, and has continued to diversify...

, but she did not think anyone would relate to that, and decided to dress in a preppy
Preppy
Preppy, preppie, or prep refers to a modern, widespread United States clique, often considered a subculture...

 style for her audition, and the character ended up being re-written.

Marc McClure
Marc McClure
Marc A. McClure is an American actor. McClure was born in San Mateo, California. He is not, despite a popular misconception, related to the late Doug McClure.-Superman film series:...

, who played Boris Harris, Annabel's love interest in the original film, has a brief cameo as Boris the delivery man. Director Mark Waters also makes a cameo holding a baby at the wedding. Also, in the end scene when Anna is dancing with Jake, there is a woman in the background dancing with an older gentleman, and she looks directly at the camera. This woman is Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina Lohan.

Ryan Shuck
Ryan Shuck
Ryan Christopher Shuck , better known as Ryan Shuck, is the rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Orgy and rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist of alternative rock band Dead By Sunrise. He also has a side project with fellow Orgy member Amir Derakh called Julien-K...

 coached Jamie Lee Curtis to play the guitar solo for the concert scene.
Lindsay Lohan trained for one year to learn to play the guitar before production.

The snapshots in the opening credits are photos of Jamie Lee Curtis and her daughter, Annie Guest.

Box office

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $22,203,007 million in 2,954 theaters in the United States
United States
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 and Canada
Canada
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, ranking #2 at the box office, behind S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T.
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. By the end of its run, Freaky Friday grossed $110,230,332 domestically and $50,616,000 internationally, totaling $160,846,332 worldwide.

Critical reception

The film was a box office success, garnering a total of $110,222,438. Critics were mostly positive in their reviews of the film. It currently garners a "B" grade on Yahoo!
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 movies, an 87% "Certified Fresh" approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes
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.

Jamie Lee Curtis' performance was singled out for praise by many critics. David Ansen of Newsweek
Newsweek
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 noted that, "the most startling metamorphosis is Curtis's transformation from fading horror-flick queen to dazzling comedienne. She goes on a teenage tear--tormenting Anna's younger brother (who wonders why Mom's acting so weird), getting down and dirty on a TV talk show where Tess is supposed to discuss her book on aging--with fiercely funny conviction." Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly
Entertainment Weekly
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 called her performance "glorious," and A.O. Scott contended that she "does some of her best work ever [in Freaky Friday]." Nick Davis described her as "so frisky and pouty and incandescent in Freaky Friday, she made the whole movie feel like something special." Her performance was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy was first awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association as a separate category in 1950...

.

Soundtrack

The orchestral score was written by Rolfe Kent
Rolfe Kent
Rolfe R. Kent is a British film score composer.Kent was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. He attended St Albans School, then graduated in Psychology from the University of Leeds in 1986...

 and orchestrated by Tony Blondal
Tony Blondal
Tony Blondal, , is a film and television orchestrator and conductor, and record arranger. He started out his musical career playing live and doing studio recording sessions...


Awards and Nominateds

List awards to film and actress/actors.
Won
  • 2004 - MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
    MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
    This is a following list of the MTV Movie Award winners and nominees for Best Breakthrough Performance. In many years, the awards were split into Male and Female categories...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Female
    Teen Choice Awards
    The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Hissy Fit
    Teen Choice Awards
    The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Live Action Family Film
  • 2004 - Teen Choice Awards for Choice Breakout Movie Star - Female
    Teen Choice Awards
    The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Hissy Fit
    Teen Choice Awards
    The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - BMI Film Music Award to Rolfe Kent
    Rolfe Kent
    Rolfe R. Kent is a British film score composer.Kent was born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. He attended St Albans School, then graduated in Psychology from the University of Leeds in 1986...


Nominated
  • 2003 - Satellite Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy to Jamie Lee Curtis
  • 2004 - Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy to Jamie Lee Curtis
  • 2004 - Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film
    Saturn Award for Best Fantasy Film
    The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Fantasy Film:...

  • 2004 - Saturn Award for Best Actress to Jamie Lee Curtis
  • 2004 - Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
    Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor
    The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Performance by a Younger Actor:- References :* , Saturn Awards...

     to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Saturn Award for Best Writing
    Saturn Award for Best Writing
    The following is a list of people who have won the Saturn Award for Best Writing.-Multiple Winners:*James Cameron - 3 awards*Christopher Nolan - 3 awards*William Peter Blatty - 3 awards-External links:* http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#writing...

     to Heather Hach & Leslie Dixon
  • 2004 - Critics Choice Award for Best Family Film - Live Action
  • 2004 - Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards for Best Live Action Family Film
  • 2004 - Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie - Comedy
    Teen Choice Awards
    The Teen Choice Awards, are an annual awards show that air on the Fox cable channel, that honor the year's biggest biggest achievements in music, movies, sports, television, fashion and more, voted by teen viewers aged 14 through 17. Winners receive an authentic full size surfboard designed with...

  • 2004 - Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress to Lindsay Lohan
  • 2004 - Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Young Actor Age Ten or Younger to Ryan Malgarini
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