Freaky Friday

Freaky Friday is a children's novel by Mary Rodgers first published in the USA in 1972, in which a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better.

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Children's novel - Mary Rodgers - USA - 1972

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It is also the name of three different movies with similar plots based on the book, made by the Walt Disney Company. The three versions are:

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• 1976 - Jodie Foster plays the girl and Barbara Harris plays the mother.
• 1995 - television version - Gaby Hoffmann plays the girl and Shelley Long plays the mother.
• 2003 - Lindsay Lohan plays the girl and Jamie Lee Curtis plays the mother.

Similar to these movies is the intergender Freaky Friday take-off, A Saintly Switch.

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The book might be considered a modern re-telling of Vice Versa, the 1882 novel by F. Anstey, in which the protagonists are a father and son.

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Vice Versa - 1882 - F. Anstey

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