Face/Off is the best body-swap movie ever made. Here's why

Face/Off is the best body-swap movie ever made. Here's why

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 inhabit each other’s bodies for a day. The Rodgers novel has been remade by Disney multiple times, including a 2003 version with a new legacy sequel, and the late 1980s body-swap boom featured several male versions of that same basic story. Empathy is …