While many people consider Freaky Friday one of the best Body Swap movies ever made, the trope is a tale as old as time. Body Swap stories have been laced throughout history in novels, radio shows, ...

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In Rodgers’s story, a feuding mother and daughter magically switch bodies for a day. The author was absolutely aware of this ingenious setup’s queasy-comic possibilities. Her 13-year-old narrator ...

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Most of the best-known body-swapping movies are comedies, and many of those follow the age-gap pattern of Freaky Friday, a 1976 adaptation of the Mary Rodgers’ YA novel where a mother and daughter ...