US EditionFreakier Friday: Nostalgia-Soaked Sequel Explores Grief and Blended Families
LOS ANGELES, AUG 11 – The sequel features four characters swapping bodies, expanding family dynamics and wedding chaos, with early box office previews reaching $3 million, according to reports.
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Freakier Friday: nostalgia-soaked sequel explores grief and blended families
Twenty-two years after Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis first swapped bodies in the teen classic Freaky Friday, the beloved duo returns. This time there’s twice the chaos in an ambitious four-person body swap comedy dripping in noughties nostalgia. This sequel successfully recaptures the unapologetic girlish silliness that made the first film so beloved. The timing couldn’t be better. Curtis is fresh from her Oscar win for Everything Everywher…
In his nearly 50 years of career, Jamie Lee Curtis claims to have improvised just one phrase: “Make good decisions.” These are the words that his character, Dr. Tess Coleman, yelled at his daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) from the car window in the 2003 body exchange comedy, Freaky Friday. Such a beloved quote and with so many memes returns for the new sequel, Freakier Friday, which brings Curtis and Lohan together. Only now, things are a little di…
The body-swappers are back! Lohan, Curtis return for chaotic sequel ‘Freakier Friday’
It’s a tale as old as time — or at least, a tale Hollywood loves to tell again and again: Body-swapping. It’s magical. It’s comical. It carries heartwarming messages about walking in another’s shoes, and learning about oneself along the way. So it’s hardly surprising that “Freaky Friday,” the 2003 version of…
With "Freakier Friday" a classic continues after more than 20 years. The film has remained almost the same – just like the women's fears he deals with.
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