Freaky Friday (1976)

Excellent body-swap comedy from Disney. 

A mother and daughter switch roles, with comedic results. Jodie Foster plays the daughter, while Barbara Harris plays the mother. There’s plenty of silly slapstick, as pretty much everything goes wrong for both of them, but the film also makes some interesting points about gender roles (Annabel realises that her idealised father is actually a chauvinist pig) and the expectations of US society in the 1970s. 

Foster is fine enough at playing her own mother, but Harris is superb as her own daughter – really making you believe she's a teenager trapped in an adult's body.

There’s a superb theme song, too – "I’d Like to Be You for a Day" – although there's some confusion about whether or not it's sung by the two female leads.

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