Meanwhile Ellen, now a high school student, struggles with marching band, destroys her entire typing class's electric typewriters, exposes her photography class's developing film, and loses a field hockey game. Annabel later remorses for misjudging Ben and getting a different outlook on him. Plus, between all the talks, they play baseball which improves their relationship. He tells her which qualities he envies about Annabel, and is able to share her loathing over the housemaid, who is constantly complaining about Annabel's sloppiness, and then confesses when he tried to be messy to connect with Annabel, the housemaid said he didn't know better and cleaned up after him. Annabel does have a bright spot with her brother, Ben, such as getting to have personal discussions with him, when she picks him up from school. Annabel enlists Boris (Marc McClure), a neighbor on whom she has harbored a crush, to look after her younger brother and help make a chocolate mousse but all three manage to mess everything up, then later saving face by making everything into a smörgåsbord. As though Annabel did not have her hands full, Bill Andrews (John Astin) coerces her to cook dinner for twenty-five people as his catered dinner party plans fell through. After a brief scene where they are shocked at seeing their new appearances, both ladies proceed as each other normally would.Īnnabel is now a housewife, tending to laundry, car repair, grocery deliveries, carpet cleaners, dry cleaners, her housemaid, and the family Basset hound, Max. In sync, Annabel and Ellen (who is in the family home's kitchen) both wish aloud, "I wish I could switch places with her for just one day." Their wish comes true when their bodies are switched. Following a disagreement on Thursday, before Friday the 13th, Annabel leaves to join a friend at a local diner. At the 34th Golden Globe Awards, it received three nominations: Best Actress – Comedy or Musical (for both Foster and Harris), and Best Original Song ("I'd Like to Be You for a Day").Įllen Andrews (Barbara Harris) and her daughter, Annabel Andrews (Jodie Foster) constantly quarrel. The film received positive reviews from critics with praise for Foster and Harris’s performances and was a box office success, grossing $36 million on a $5 million budget. The cause of the switch is left unexplained in this film, but occurs on Friday the 13th, when Ellen 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 water skiing subplot to her screenplay.įreaky Friday was released theatrically in the United States on December 17, 1976, by Buena Vista Distribution. In the film, a mother and her daughter switch their bodies, and they get a taste of each other's lives. John Astin, Patsy Kelly, Dick Van Patten and Sorrell Booke are featured in supporting roles. The film stars Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster in the lead roles. For remakes, see Freaky Friday (disambiguation).įreaky Friday: The Movie is a 1976 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Gary Nelson, with the screenplay written by Mary Rodgers based on her 1972 novel of the same name. The slaves are then hunted down and killed by their master, except one who escapes.This article is about the 1976 film. However, when these promises are not held up the next day, the slaves rebel. He promises them a day off for the following Good Friday and commits to freeing one of the slaves. Whilst they eat and drink, he also feeds them religious rhetoric and attempts to instruct them in the workings of Christianity. In a misguided attempt to enlighten his African-originating slaves, a Count invites twelve of them to a dinner on Maundy Thursday in a re-enactment of the Last Supper with himself as Christ. The plantation owner decides to recreate the Biblical Last Supper using twelve of the slaves working in his sugarcane fields, hoping to thus teach the slaves about Christianity. The film tells the story of a pious Havana plantation owner in the 1790s, during Cuba's Spanish colonial period.
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