Body Switch/Swap Movies
A body swap is a storytelling device seen in a variety of fiction, most often in movies, in which one or two people (or beings) exchange ages or minds and end up in person's or each other's bodies. Alternatively, their ages or minds may stay where they are as their bodies adjust. The one or two people usually keep their voices in cartoons too, for purposes of knowing who is who.
There are three distinct types of body swapping. Switches can be caused by magic items such as amulets, heartfelt wishes, or just strange quirks of the universe.
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Freaky Friday (1976, G)
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All of Me (1984, PG)
Generally hilarious crazy comedy about a dead woman's 'soul' taking half possession of a living man's body. |
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Willy/Milly (Something Special) (I Was a Teenage Boy) (1986, PG-13)
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Like Father, Like Son (1987, PG-13)
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Vice Versa (1988, PG)
Few laughs with father and son Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage in body-swap flick. |
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Big (1988, PG)
One of the funniest, most delightful fantasies yet put on film. Hanks is perfect as the boy who whishes he were big - and wakes up 20 years older. |
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18 Again! (1988, PG)
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Dream a Little Dream (1989, PG-13)
The thought of people being able to communicate through dreams are cool. |
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Switch (1991, R)
Ellen Barkin's quite good and funny as the former self from a man after who was murdered. |
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A Prelude to a Kiss (1992, PG-13)
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Dating the Enemy (1996, Unrated)
Hilarious and ones of the best Aussie romantic-comedy with two lovers waking up to find they have swapped bodies. Claudia Karvan and Guy Pearce are fantastic in their performances that make me laugh so much while they swapped their bodies. |
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Wish Upon a Star (1996, PG)
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Being John Malkovich (1999, R)
Very strange and weirdo story which explores love, identity, alternate reality, and sex in the body of actor John Malkovich. |
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A Saintly Switch (1999, Unrated)
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Dogmatic (1999, Unrated)
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XChange (2001, R)
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The Hot Chick (2002, PG-13)
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Hilfe, ich bin ein Junge (Help I'm a boy) (2002, G)
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Freaky Friday (2003, PG)
This is a perfectly cast remake of the 1977 body-switching comedy. Jamie Lee Curtis is hilarious as the adult with the teen attitude and Lindsay Lohan's equally good as the new, prim Anna who tucks in the shirts of her school friends. |
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13 Going on 30 (Suddenly 30) (2004, PG-13)
Really outstanding and gorgeous comedy for a woman at 30 acting like a 13-year-old girl since Big. Jennifer Garner makes a fantastic performance that makes me laugh. |
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Holiday Wishes (2006, PG)
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It's a Boy Girl Thing (2006, PG-13)
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Just Follow Law: Wo zai zheng fu bu men de ri zi (2007, Unrated)
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17 Again (2009, PG-13)
This body-swap comedy is wild, wacky and wonderful. Zac Efron's first scene at the beginning memorised me of his latest films, High School Musical series because of his little dance with cheerleaders at the high school basketball court where he also plays. |
