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Freaky Friday is a 2003 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Mark Waters and written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, based on Mary Rodgers's 1972 novel of the same name. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter, respectively, whose bodies are switched by a mysterious and magical Chinese fortune cookie.

Freaky Friday
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMark Waters
Screenplay by
Based onFreaky Friday
by Mary Rodgers
Produced byAndrew Gunn
Starring
CinematographyOliver Wood
Edited byBruce Green
Music byRolfe Kent
Production
companies
  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • Gunn Films
Distributed byBuena Vista Pictures Distribution
Release dates
  • August 4, 2003 (2003-08-04) (Los Angeles)
  • August 6, 2003 (2003-08-06) (United States)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$26 million[1]
Box office$160.8 million[2]

The film was released in theaters on August 6, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. The film received largely positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances (particularly that of Curtis and Lohan), but criticized the transformation scene. The film was also a commercial success, grossing over $160 million worldwide on a $26 million budget.[3] The film also earned Curtis a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It was Disney's third film adaptation of the novel, after the 1976 film, starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and the 1995 made-for-TV film, starring Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann.


Plot


Aspiring teenage musician Anna Coleman lives with her widowed therapist mother, Tess, and younger brother, Harry. Tess is about to marry her fiancé, Ryan, whom Anna has not entirely accepted as she has not properly moved on from the death of her biological father three years earlier.

At school, Anna's English teacher, Mr. Elton Bates, treats her unfairly, giving her an F on every assignment regardless of how well she does. She is also feuding with Stacey Hinkhouse, her former best friend-turned-nemesis and a bully. Anna has a crush on a school staff member, Jake, of whom her mother disapproves. Anna also serves as the lead guitarist in the band, Pink Slip, which is scheduled to audition for a spot in Wango Tango at the House of Blues, the same night as the wedding rehearsal, so Tess forbids Anna from going. At a dinner at Pei-Pei's Chinese restaurant, the two get into a heated argument. Pei-Pei's mother interrupts their quarrel by giving them fortune cookies. They both go into separate rooms, read their fortunes aloud, and immediately feel an intense earthquake to which the rest of the restaurant is oblivious.

The next morning, Anna and Tess wake up in each other's bodies. "Anna" (Tess in her daughter's body) goes to school and begins to fully understand her daughter's woes. She experiences bullying from Stacey and recognizes Mr. Bates as an old high school classmate, realizing that he is treating Anna unfairly as revenge for Tess turning down a prom invitation from him years ago. "Anna" threatens Mr. Bates with reporting him to the school board unless his treatment of Anna stops. Meanwhile, "Tess" (Anna in her mother’s body), after giving her new body a makeover, has difficulty handling the patients. At lunchtime, "Anna" and "Tess" return to the restaurant, but Pei-Pei explains that only showing selfless love for each other will cause the switch to be reversed.

"Tess" attends Harry's parent-teacher conference, where she reads a composition about how much he actually admires Anna, and decides to be nicer to him. "Anna" attempts to make amends with Stacey, but Stacey frames her for cheating on a test and "Anna" gets sent to detention. When Jake notices "Anna" sneaking out of detention, he offers to help her finish the test. Jake takes "Anna" to the file room in the teachers' lounge and she realizes that she misjudged him, but he loses his enamoration towards "Anna" after she sabotages Stacey's test by erasing most of the answers and writing "I'M STUPID!" on it. Ryan surprises "Tess" with a talk show interview to discuss her latest psychology book. To disguise the fact that she hasn't read the book, "Tess" goes into an amusing tirade about getting older. "Anna" and Jake watch the interview on television and while she is embarrassed, he is impressed. "Tess" bumps into Jake at his second job, a coffee shop, and they bond over their favorite music.

At the rehearsal dinner, Anna's friends Maddie and Peg, two of her bandmates, try to convince "Anna" to sneak off to the audition, but they are caught by security. Ryan surprisingly gives "Anna" permission to go, explaining that he just wants the kids to accept him, and urges "Tess" to support the band, finally winning her over. Since "Anna" cannot play, "Tess" plays the guitar backstage while "Anna" mimes along. Realizing her daughter is indeed musically talented, "Anna" promises to treat her daughter's band with more respect, and during the show, Jake becomes enamored with "Anna" again upon seeing her perform.

Back at the rehearsal dinner, "Anna" tells "Tess" to ask Ryan to postpone the wedding, so that her daughter will not have to marry him in her mother's body. Instead, "Tess" proposes a toast, finally accepting Ryan because of how happy he makes her mom. This act of selfless love switches back Anna's and Tess' bodies. Tess and Ryan later marry, she and Anna finally reconcile, realizing how tough their lives are, and Tess allows Anna to start dating Jake.

At the wedding, Pei-Pei notices her mother offering Anna's grandfather, Alan, and Harry two fortune cookies after seeing them argue. She immediately rushes over, tackles them both, and grabs the cookies. During the credits, Anna is playing with her band at Ryan's and Tess's wedding.


Cast



Production



Development


Lohan's character was originally written as goth, but she did not think anyone would relate to that, and decided to dress in a preppy style for her audition. The character ended up being rewritten as a grunge, alt-rock teen.[4]

Ryan Shuck coached Curtis to play the guitar solo for the concert scene[citation needed]. Lohan trained for one year to learn to play the guitar before production. In the final version of the film, both Curtis and Lohan's guitar parts were overdubbed by professional studio musicians.[5][6]


Casting


Initially, producer Andrew Gunn had hoped that Jodie Foster, who played Annabel in the original 1976 film, would be interested in the role of the mother. Foster declined, citing concerns that her stunt casting would draw attention away from other elements of the film.[7] Jamie Lee Curtis was offered the role of Tess at the last minute, after Annette Bening dropped out for undisclosed reasons four days before filming began.[8] Kelly Osbourne was originally set to play Maddie, but withdrew when her mother was diagnosed with cancer.[9] She was replaced by Christina Vidal.[10] Tom Selleck was originally cast as Ryan but dropped out when Annette Bening dropped out from the film.[11]

Marc McClure, who played Annabel's love interest in the 1976 film, makes a brief cameo as Boris the delivery man.[7] The snapshots in the opening credits are photos of Curtis and her daughter, Annie Guest. In the final scene, Dina Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's mother and manager, makes an appearance as one of the wedding guests. Director Mark Waters also has a cameo holding a baby at the wedding.


Filming


Principal photography began on October 5, 2002, and wrapped on December 18, 2002.


Reception



Box office


In its opening weekend, the film grossed $22.2 million in 2,954 theaters, finishing second at the box office, behind S.W.A.T. ($37.1 million). The film went on to gross $110.2 million in North America and $50.6 million in other territories for a total of $160.8 million.[2] The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 19, 2003, and opened at number four.[12]


Critical response


Freaky Friday received largely positive reviews from film critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 88% based on 155 reviews, with an average rating of 7.00/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan charm in Mark Waters' nicely pitched—and Disney's second—remake of the 1976 hit."[13] On Metacritic the film has a score of 70 out of 100, based on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[14] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of A− on a scale of A to F.[15]

Curtis's performance was singled out for praise by many critics. David Ansen of Newsweek noted that, "the most startling metamorphosis is Curtis' 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."[16] Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly called her performance "glorious",[17] and A. O. Scott from The New York Times contended that she "does some of her best work ever [in Freaky Friday]."[18] Independent reviewer Nick Davis described her as "so frisky and pouty and incandescent in Freaky Friday, she made the whole movie feel like something special."[19] Her performance was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Lohan's performance was also praised. Roger Ebert, who gave the film three out of four stars, described Lohan as possessing "that Jodie Foster sort of seriousness and intent focus beneath her teenage persona."[20] The film earned her the award for Breakthrough Performance at the 2004 MTV Movie Awards.[21]

The transformation scene, however, was criticized. While Ebert noted that Asian American actors were cast in the film simply to "supply magic potions, exotic elixirs, ancient charms and handy supernatural plot points",[20] Nick Schager of Slant Magazine called it "a strange bit of 'Oriental mysticism' stereotyping that seems at odds with the film's thematic focus on tolerance and understanding."[22] From The Village Voice, Ed Park summarized the premise as "some strange racist bullshit".[23]


Home media


The film was released on DVD and VHS on December 16, 2003, by Walt Disney Home Entertainment. It was later released on Blu-ray on March 27, 2018 as an exclusive through the Disney Movie Club program. The film is also available on the streaming service Disney+ after its launch on November 12, 2019.


Soundtrack


Main article: Freaky Friday (soundtrack)

The orchestral score was written by Rolfe Kent and orchestrated by Tony Blondal. Lohan also recorded a song for the soundtrack, titled "Ultimate".


Awards and nominations


Won
Nominated

Potential sequel


In October 2022, Jamie Lee Curtis expressed enthusiasm about making a Freaky Friday sequel alongside Lindsay Lohan after disclosing the two were still in touch during a fan event in Mexico.[24] After news on her statement created buzz online, Curtis revealed on The View a few days later that she had already contacted Disney about it and shared a potential pitch.[25][26] It was then reported Lohan would also be interested in returning for a sequel with Curtis if Disney proposed a new film.[27] "I love Jamie. I would definitely love to work together again, and we have spoken so we will see. I think when you work with such incredible people, you always want to have a chance to work with them again, especially when so much time has passed, and to share those experiences and bring something great back to life for a new audience to see and a different generation, I think it's just the best," Lohan said the following month.[28]. Lohan was asked again about the sequel in another interview on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, in which Lohan replied: "First of all — let’s just take the fact I was on set filming at the time, and Jamie Lee Curtis writes you and you just get excited and distracted immediately, so I had to bring myself down to earth and be, like, ‘okay I’m on set, I have to focus and then she said Freaky Friday 2 and I got more excited!”. Lohan continued, "We would both be into it yeah, I'm not going to say no to Disney".[29]. A few days later, Curtis was asked if she thought that a sequel would ever happen, Curtis replied because of the difference in her age and Lohans age, it lends itself so beautifully. She continued, "The right people are talking. We're both committed to it, and it's not ours to make. It's Disney's to make and I think they're interested and we're talking. So that's as much as I can say."[30][31]. In another interview Curtis added, " 'Freaky Friday' was so great, it has so much nostalgia to it, Young people love it, the people that grew up with it now are moms, they’re showing it to their kids. The music, Lindsay Lohan - its just a great movie , so it makes sense why we would do it again". [32]


References


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  3. "Movie trivia for the top 100 films of all time". www.kake.com. Retrieved September 8, 2020.[permanent dead link]
  4. Peretz, Yevgenia (February 2006). "Confessions of a Teenage Movie Queen". Vanity Fair. Condé Nast (546): 120. ISSN 0733-8899. Archived from the original on March 25, 2020. Retrieved March 25, 2020. As the script was written, the character was Goth, Lohan recalls: "No one could relate to the character when she was really Goth. There was nothing there." She took it upon herself to change it – before the audition. "I dressed really preppy," she says. "I wore a collared turquoise Abercrombie and Fitch shirt and khaki pants, swear to God, with a white headband. And my hair was really straight and pretty and red and blond. My agent calls and was like, 'What are you doing?!'" The studio ended up rewriting the character entirely.
  5. Heller, Billy (August 2, 2003). "Teen for a Time: For 'Freaky Friday,' Jamie Lee Curtis Asked an Expert – Her Daughter". New York Post. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  6. Freaky Friday — Lindsay Lohan (video). January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via YouTube.
  7. Kuklenski, Valerie (August 13, 2003). "Disney's the King of Remakes". The Ledger. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  8. Gritten, David (December 20, 2003). "I'm still here". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on August 26, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  9. Baylis, Sheila Cosgrove (August 6, 2013). "Kelly Osbourne on Her Drug Battle: Mom Even Put Me in a Padded Cell". People. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  10. "Kelly Osbourne Won't Get 'Freaky'". Billboard. September 12, 2002. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
  11. "'Freaky' role is a perfect fit for Curtis". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 23, 2021.
  12. "UK Weekend Box Office 19th December 2003 - 21st December 2003". www.25thframe.co.uk. Retrieved March 25, 2020.
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