I just saw a funny, silly Brazilian film, Se Eu Fosse Você, in which an alienated husband and wife switch bodies and learn to appreciate each other, yada yada yada. I was thinking of how many movies have had this premise or a closely related. This is what a friend and I came up with. What are we missing?
Strict body switches
- Freaky Friday (original – with Jodi Foster)
- Freaky Friday (new – with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis)
- Hot Chick (with Rob Schneider and Rachel McAdams)
- Vice Versa (with Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold)
- 18 Again! (with George Burns)
- Se Eu Fosse Você [If I Were You]
- Se Eu Fosse Você 2
- Face/Off – this is the only one I know where the switch is framed as scientific rather than just some fantastic happening
- And apparently there was a TV remake of Freaky Friday with Shelley Long
Someone takes over someone else’s body – mayhem ensues
- All of me (with Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin)
- Heart & Souls (with Robert Downey Jr)
- Ghost (briefly – with Whoopi et al)
Wow! Suddenly I’m in a big / little person’s body
- Big (with Tom Hanks)
- 13 Going on 30 (with Jennifer Garner)
- 17 Again (with Matthew Perry and Zac Efron)
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