2003 · comedy · family · fantasy
Freaky Friday
Directed by Mark Waters1h 37m2003
Mother and daughter bicker over everything -- what Anna wears, whom she likes and what she wants to do when she's older. In turn, Anna detests Tess's fiancé. When a magical fortune cookie switches their personalities, they each get a peek at how the other person feels, thinks and lives.
Our read: Freaky Friday (2003) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive comedy · family · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / family, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
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