A crazy friday

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Movie
German title A crazy friday
Original title Freaky Friday
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1976
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Gary Nelson
script Mary Rodgers
production Ron Miller
music Joel Hirschhorn
camera Charles F. Wheeler
cut Cotton Warburton
occupation
synchronization

A very crazy Friday (Original title: Freaky Friday ) is an American fantasy film - comedy from 1976 . It was produced by The Walt Disney Company ; the shooting took place in San Diego , California .

The film is based on the novel Crazy Friday ( Freaky Friday ) from the year 1972 by Mary Rodgers , also the script wrote.

action

The film is about a mother and her adolescent daughter. Both cannot understand the other's problems and would like to swap, because they consider the other's life to be much easier and more carefree. By chance they both say the phrase I wish I could swap with her at the same time - at least for a day! Suddenly the mother finds herself in the body of her daughter at school, and the daughter suddenly finds herself at home in her mother's body.

Unfortunately, the role reversal took place exactly on the Friday on which the daughter, Annabel, was supposed to give a water ski show for her father's company colleagues. Her mother, who doesn't even know how to water ski, goes through hell on earth on the boards.

The daughter is not much better either. When washing clothes, the washing machine overflows with foam, because only the mother has mastered the correct dosage of detergent.

Mother and daughter realize that the lives of others are not as easy as they once thought and want their old bodies back. But how? By simultaneously expressing the wish, the exchange takes place. Not as planned, though, because Anabell's mother is still waterskiing - but now back in her old body. One thing is clear to Anabell: she has to go to the waterskiing spot and release her mother. Before she succeeds, there is still some turbulence: For example, Anabell is being followed by the police for driving her parents' car without having a driver's license.

Awards

Freaky Friday was in 1977, three times for the Film Award Golden Globe Award nominations: Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as actresses and Joel Hirschhorn for music.

Reviews

  • "Pretty in terms of the idea, but in its implementation a - apart from the furious ending - lengthy comedy with overused situation comedy ." - Lexicon of international film (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997.
  • "Despite countless slapstick inserts, exploding typewriters and devastating car trips, the comic constellation soon wore off." - Kölnische Rundschau , Cologne
  • “A Sunday school lecture for family-friendly behavior.” - Film echo
  • "[...] a wonderful mixture of fairy tales and crazy slapstick." Rating: 2 out of 4 possible stars = average. - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz

Remake

The novel was made into a film again in 2003 with the title Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee Curtis in the role of mother and Lindsay Lohan as daughter. However, this is a youth film , not a children's film like the original.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon "Films on TV". (Extended new edition.) Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 272.