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FreAkY FriDAY 1976 in the same year that Jodie Foster played a teenage prostitute in Taxi Driver, she starred as an impudent teen who swapped personalities with her overworked, under-appreciated mum (Barbara harris) for one crazy day. remade, delightfully, in 2003, with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. ALL OF me 1984 a dying millionaire (Lily Tomlin) seeks to have her soul transferred into a younger woman but it winds up being hosted by her lawyer (steve martin). he controls the left side of his body, she the right, and taking a leak quickly turns from necessary function to hilarious set-piece… BiG 1988 a teenage lad wishes to be big and wakes up as Tom hanks in his early thirties. hi-jinks naturally ensue, including popping his cherry (well, this was the ’80s). Not the first body swap movie but undoubtedly the sub-genre’s go-to title – hanks even bagged a Best actor nod. FACe/OFF 1997 oK, it’s technically a face-swap movie, but how not to include good guy John Travolta and bad guy Nic Cage trading mugs to destroy each other’s lives in John Woo’s bonkers action movie? even
would have been better with balletic gunplay, exploding speedboats and slo-mo doves. Big 13 GOiNG ON 30 2004 Big
gets a gender swap, as a teen girl (Christa B. allen) wishes to grow up fast and soon finds herself looking in the mirror at a manhattan magazine editor (Jennifer Garner). Best not to think too deeply about a 13-year-old in an adult body pulling mark ruffalo…