Taglines: Every teenager’s nightmare…turning into her mother.
Freaky Friday movie storyline. Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lindsay Lohan), are not getting along. They don’t see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not on each other’s taste in men. One Thursday evening, their disagreements reach a fever pitch—Anna is incensed that her mother doesn’t support her musical aspirations and Tess, a widow about to remarry, can’t see why Anna won’t give her fiancé (Mark Harmon) a break. Everything soon changes when two identical Chinese Fortune cookies cause a little mystic mayhem.
The next morning, their Friday gets freaky when Tess and Anna find themselves inside the other’s body. As they’re literally forced to walk in each other’s shoes, they gain a little newfound respect for the other’s point of view. But with Tess’s wedding coming on Saturday, the two have to find a way to switch back (and fast). Mary Rodgers’ classic novel gets a new spin in this big-screen adaptation.
Freaky Friday is a 2003 American fantasy-comedy teen film directed by Mark Waters and written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter whose bodies are switched due to a mysterious fortune cookie.
The film was released in theaters on August 6, 2003, by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures. It received positive reviews from film critics and it earned over $160 million worldwide on a $20 million budget. It was Disney’s third film adaptation of the novel, after the 1976 film Freaky Friday starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster, and the 1995 TV film Freaky Friday starring Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffmann. It was released on VHS and DVD on December 16, 2003 by Walt Disney Home Video.
In its opening weekend, the film grossed $22,203,007 in 2,954 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking No. 2 at the box office, behind S.W.A.T.. By the end of its run, Freaky Friday grossed $110,230,332 in the US and $50,616,000 internationally, totaling $160,846,332 worldwide.
Freaky Friday (2003)
Directed by: Mark Waters
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Harold Gould, Chad Michael Murray, Mark Harmon, Christina Vidal, Rosalind Chao, Lucille Soong, Dina Spybey-Waters
Screenplay by: Heather Hach, Leslie Dixon
Production Design by: Cary White
Cinematography by: Oliver Wood
Film Editing by: Bruce Green
Costume Design by: Genevieve Tyrrell
Set Decoration by: Barbara Haberecht
Music by: Rolfe Kent
MPAA Rating: PG for mild thematic elements and some language.
Release Date: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: August 6, 2003
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