Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday (1976)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (21 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (65,319 ratings)

Prolific television director Gary Nelson made the Walt Disney live-action comedy Freaky Friday, based on the novel by Mary Rodgers. Barbara Harris stars as suburban housewife Ellen Andrews, the wife of Bill (John Astin) and the mother of Annabel (Jodie Foster) and Ben (Sparky Marcus). Ellen just… More

G,
Directed By
Genres
Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Comedy
In Theaters
Dec 17, 1976 Wide
On DVD
Jun 1, 2004
Disney

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    Good performances struggle gamely to overcome the increasingly predictable plot.

  • Richard Eder, New York Times

    Toward the end there are some amusing car-chase scenes. Elsewhere the humor is clotted by the feeling that the jokes are chasing the reactions, instead of the other way around.

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    The situation -- a mother and daughter switch personalities for a day -- is rife with possibilities, but since this 1977 comedy is a Disney film, said possibilities are scrupulously squandered.

  • Heather Boerner, Common Sense Media

    Endearing '76 original may feel outdated to kids.

  • Cole Smithey, ColeSmithey.com

    A kid's comedy classic.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Candy R


    One of my fave kids movies. Jodie and Barbara are hilarious. Imagine swapping a day in your life with your mum! Fave scenes - the switch between driving the car and water skiing. Stars a young Jodie Foster.

  • Matheus C


    Comédia da Disney que ganhou uma refilmagem em 2003 com Jamie Lee Curtis e Lindsay Lohan. Um dos filmes mais simpáticos produzidos sob a problemática gestão de Ron Miller nos anos seguintes à morte de Walt, mostra a já clichê história de troca de corpos entre mãe (Barbara Harris) e… More

  • Lucas M


    The best film of "body-switching", that I ever saw. Fresh.

  • AJ V


    My favourite, and the original, version of the story. The cast is perfect, the movie is very funny, and it's exciting too. I loved this movie as a kid.

  • Wahida K


    I tried to watch this one, it was tiny bit too headaching. So tried to watch the remake with Jamie Lee Curtis, I thought the Original didnt cause me Migrane atleast. lol

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