The underwhelming Netflix comedy Family Switch (“A dad joke of a movie,” according to critic Nell Minow) reminds us of two things. First, the appeal of body-swap movies for filmmakers remains undimmed ...

One of the tried-and-true plot devices in all of storytelling is the idea of body switching. It's when two characters with opposite personalities switch bodies and then have to cope with what it's ...

The iconic Jamie Lee Curtis is returning to body-swapping chaos more than two decades after Freaky Friday with a long-awaited sequel hitting theaters on August 8. For Freakier Friday, however, Curtis ...

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 ...

Jeremy Crabb is a film-focused freelance writer for Collider. Growing up just outside of Atlanta, Georgia, Jeremy first fell in love with cinema in 2005, when he made his first trip to the theater to ...