This article is about the 1977 movie. For other movies, see Freaky Friday.
Freaky Friday is a 1977 American live-action/animated musical comedy film, written and producer Howard Ashman, music and songs by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman and starring Jodie Foster as Annabel Andrews and as her mother.
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers, in which mother and daughter switch bodies and get a taste of each others' lives. The cause of the switch is left unexplained in this film, but occurs one Friday the 13th, when Mrs. Andrews and Annabel, in different places, say about each other at the same time "I wish I could switch places with her for just one day." Rodgers added a waterskiing subplot to her screenplay. The cast also includes John Astin, Christopher Lloyd, Ruth Buzzi, Dick Van Patten, Charlene Tilton, and the voices of the two crows Mel Blanc.
Plot[]
The film opens on Friday the 13th when Annabel Andrews (Jodie Foster), just after a quarrel with her mother, Ellen Andrews leaves for school. Soon after, The animated two crows named Jim and Joe (Mel Blanc) joining a friend at a diner, Annabel and her mother (in their kitchen) wish aloud, "I wish I could switch places with her for just one day" - and in a chaotic way, Annabel and Ellen suddenly do switch places.
Annabel has a crazy day with the washer and dryer, the mechanic, the carpet cleaners, the drape cleaners, Ms. Mary Kay, the grocery boy, their dog named Max (Frank Welker), and the alcoholic maid. Ellen ruins all the photos in photography class, destroys and explodes about eighteen typewriters, gets lost during marching band, and loses Annabel's field hockey game. She eventually just runs away to Bill Andrews' office. When she sees the young and attractive new secretary, she invades her work by explaining how vicious and tough a woman Ellen is. So, Ellen gets Annabel's braces off, then gets a makeover and a new wardrobe. During all this, Annabel (as Ellen) plays baseball with Ben (Sparky Marcus), (Annabel's brother whom she names Ape Face) and learns how Ben idolizes Annabel and adores whatever she does. Annabel also works a crush on an old friend, Boris Harris, who now has a huge crush on Mrs. Andrews.
Eventually, Mister Shack (Christopher Lloyd) the evil man and Bill (John Astin) the good man calls Annabel (as Ellen) and forces her to cook dinner for twenty-five people which she, Ben, and Boris destroy in the making. Ellen (as Annabel) is eventually taken away to waterski for Bill's work. However, Ellen is tricked (by Mister Shack and Bill) into flying away on the skis. Annabel, Mister Shack, Boris, and Ben end up driving in Ellen's car and get in an epic and comical car chase with the police. While both flying through the air, Ellen and Annabel wish to return to their own bodies - which happens with a shocking twist: Ellen returns to her body but ends up waterskiing, and Annabel returns to her body but still ends up driving Ellen's car.
Annabel drives Ellen's car into the river, while Ellen, who has jumped onto a parachute kite, flies crazily into the river. She and Annabel happily forgive each other. In the ending scene, Mister Shack arrest by Police and in Jail, Annabel and Boris (who appear to be on the verge of going steady) and Ben are about to go out for pizza, while Ellen is unsuccessfully trying to tell Bill about the story. Bill refuses to believe it, and he and Ben quarrel about how fun a Saturday in each other's place would be. They each wish to be each other, and the film ends with them about to change places while Ellen nervously throws some playing cards into the air.
Cast[]
- Jodie Foster as Annabel Andrews/Ellen Andrews
- John Astin as Bill Andrews
- Christopher Lloyd as Mister Shack
- Mel Blanc as Jim and Joe (voice)
- Frank Welker as Max (vocal sound effects)
- Patsy Kelly as Mrs. Schmauss
- Dick Van Patten as Harold Jennings
- Vicki Shreck as Virginia
- John Stephenson as Mr. Dilk
- Alan Oppenheimer as Mr. Joffert
- Ruth Buzzi as Opposing coach
- Kaye Ballard as Coach Betsy
- Marc McClure as Boris Harris
- Marie Windsor as Mrs. Murphy
- Sparky Marcus as Ben Andrews
- Ceil Cabot as Miss McGuirk
- Brooke Mills as Mrs. Lucille Gibbons
- Karen Smith as Mary Kay Gilbert
- Marvin Kaplan as Carpet Cleaner
- Al Molinaro as Drapery man
- Iris Adrian as Bus passenger
- Barbara Walden as Mrs. Benson
- Shelly Jutner as Hilary Miller
- Charlene Tilton as Bambi
- Lori Rutherford as Jo-Jo
- Jack Sheldon as Lloyd
- Laurie Main as Mr. Mills
- Don Carter as Delivery boy
- Fuddle Bagley as Bus driver
- Fritz Feld as Mr. Jackman
- Dermott Downs as Harvey manager
- Jimmy Van Patten as Cashier
Songs[]
- I’d Like To Be You For A Day - Jodie Foster
- Present Of The America - Chorus
- I Wish Today Is Something - Jodie Foster
- A Guy Like A Guy - Mel Blanc and Jodie Foster
- The World It Is With Ours - Christopher Lloyd and Chorus
- Something About Nice - Mel Blanc, Jodie Foster
- So Dear To Love of the Music - Chorus
- You're Where I Belong - Jodie Foster
- I’d Like To Be You For A Day (finale) - Jodie Foster and Mel Blanc
Remakes[]
1983 film version was Walt Disney Feature Animation.
The 1995 film version was produced for ABC. The remake starred Shelley Long as Ellen and Gaby Hoffmann as Annabelle. In this version, the switch is caused by magical antique necklaces.
The 2003 film version stars Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis as her mother. In it, their bodies are switched due to an enchanted fortune cookie.
2016 film version was Pixar Animation Studios.
Another remake starring Cozi Zuehlsdorff as Ellie Blake and Heidi Blickenstaff as her mother aired on Disney Channel in 2018.
Trivia[]
- A copyright renewal for the film was registered on October 5, 2004.[1]
- Neither Halle Berry nor Jodie Foster did any actual waterskiing in the film. In both cases, these scenes were achieved with the use of professional water-skiers in long shot on location, and cutaway shots of the actresses in front of a rear projection effect. Foster did, however, play field hockey in the film.
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