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''Dating the Enemy'' is an Australian RomanticComedy film from 1996, written and directed by Megan Simpson Huberman, and starring Claudia Karvan, Creator/GuyPearce, with Lisa Hensley, Matt Day, Pippa Grandison and Creator/JohnHoward.
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''Dating the Enemy'' is an Australian RomanticComedy film from 1996, written and directed by Megan Simpson Huberman, and starring Claudia Karvan, Creator/GuyPearce, with Lisa Hensley, Matt Day, Pippa Grandison and Creator/JohnHoward.
Creator/JohnHoward. This is based loosely on the 1931 novel ''Literature/{{Turnabout}}'' by Thorne Smith.
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Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confident and perhaps a tad egotistical. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
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Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confident and perhaps a tad egotistical. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
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Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confidant and perhaps a tad on the egotistical side. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
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Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confidant confident and perhaps a tad on the egotistical side.egotistical. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
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''Dating the Enemy'' is an Australian RomanticComedy film from 1996, written and directed by Megan Simpson Huberman, and starring Claudia Karvan, Creator/GuyPearce, with Lisa Hensley, Matt Day, Pippa Grandison and Creator/JohnHoward.
Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confidant and perhaps a tad on the egotistical side. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
!! ''Dating the Enemy'' provides examples of:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Brett's success as a TV presenter has gone to his head, contributing to the tension between him and Tash.
* BetaCouple: Paul and Christine, the couple who introduce Brett and Tash, who get married partway through the film.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Brett and Tash both take opportunities to talk themselves up, as well as pinning the blame on the other for their relationship troubles.
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: [[spoiler:Tash ends up sleeping with Colette in Brett's body, while Brett does the same with Rob in Tash's body. Also has elements of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, as Colette ignores Tash telling her to stop (though Rob wasn't much better in that regard), and NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalisation.]]
* ForScience: Brett talks Tash into trying to have sex while body-swapped, for this reason. They don't end up going through with it [[spoiler:until toward the end of the movie when they genuinely reconcile, after which they swap back.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: Combined with GenderBender, Brett and Tash wake up in each other's bodies.
* InAnotherMansShoes: In an argument with Brett, Tash wishes aloud that he could be her and see what it's like for her, and that she could be him and show him what an idiot he's become. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Two days later...]] Elsewhere, Letitia tells them both she wishes they could be her and see how nauseated they make her.
* IntrepidReporter: Tash is a science journalist at ''The Australian'', who has to fight with her editors just to keep her articles scientifically accurate.
* MirrorReveal: Brett doesn't notice the body swap until he sees Tash's face in the mirror.
* OppositesAttract: Brett and Tash. The subject, along with LoveAtFirstSight, is discussed by a scientist that Brett (as Tash) interviews.
* RagingStiffie: Tash experiences this in Brett's body.
* SkewedPriorities: Brett insists that Tash not appear in his body in an unironed shirt, claiming that the tabloids would portray him as "tired and emotional." Tash can't believe he considers this a priority.
* StripPoker: The first act has Brett, Tash and their mutual friends playing Strip TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit. The two quickly seem to start getting questions wrong on purpose, in particular when Tash fails to answer a question involving the title of a sci-fi show about a family ''Series/{{lost in space}}''.
* ThisIsReality: When Tash first suggests that her wish was responsible for what happened to them, Brett tells her that this isn't an episode of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. In turn, Tash rather reasonably points out that they can't explain this scientifically.
* WimpFight: Brett and Tash, when they're both accusing the other of causing the swap.
Meet Brett and Tash. Brett is good-looking, confidant and perhaps a tad on the egotistical side. Tash is intellectual, reserved and maybe a little too smart for her own good. When these two meet, it's {{love at first sight}}, but when a lack of compromise threatens to break up their relationship, the natural forces of the universe decide to intervene and Brett and Tash wake up - in each other's body!
!! ''Dating the Enemy'' provides examples of:
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Brett's success as a TV presenter has gone to his head, contributing to the tension between him and Tash.
* BetaCouple: Paul and Christine, the couple who introduce Brett and Tash, who get married partway through the film.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: Brett and Tash both take opportunities to talk themselves up, as well as pinning the blame on the other for their relationship troubles.
* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: [[spoiler:Tash ends up sleeping with Colette in Brett's body, while Brett does the same with Rob in Tash's body. Also has elements of DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale, as Colette ignores Tash telling her to stop (though Rob wasn't much better in that regard), and NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalisation.]]
* ForScience: Brett talks Tash into trying to have sex while body-swapped, for this reason. They don't end up going through with it [[spoiler:until toward the end of the movie when they genuinely reconcile, after which they swap back.]]
* FreakyFridayFlip: Combined with GenderBender, Brett and Tash wake up in each other's bodies.
* InAnotherMansShoes: In an argument with Brett, Tash wishes aloud that he could be her and see what it's like for her, and that she could be him and show him what an idiot he's become. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Two days later...]] Elsewhere, Letitia tells them both she wishes they could be her and see how nauseated they make her.
* IntrepidReporter: Tash is a science journalist at ''The Australian'', who has to fight with her editors just to keep her articles scientifically accurate.
* MirrorReveal: Brett doesn't notice the body swap until he sees Tash's face in the mirror.
* OppositesAttract: Brett and Tash. The subject, along with LoveAtFirstSight, is discussed by a scientist that Brett (as Tash) interviews.
* RagingStiffie: Tash experiences this in Brett's body.
* SkewedPriorities: Brett insists that Tash not appear in his body in an unironed shirt, claiming that the tabloids would portray him as "tired and emotional." Tash can't believe he considers this a priority.
* StripPoker: The first act has Brett, Tash and their mutual friends playing Strip TabletopGame/TrivialPursuit. The two quickly seem to start getting questions wrong on purpose, in particular when Tash fails to answer a question involving the title of a sci-fi show about a family ''Series/{{lost in space}}''.
* ThisIsReality: When Tash first suggests that her wish was responsible for what happened to them, Brett tells her that this isn't an episode of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie''. In turn, Tash rather reasonably points out that they can't explain this scientifically.
* WimpFight: Brett and Tash, when they're both accusing the other of causing the swap.
