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4	->'''Ellie:''' You seriously think girls have it easier?\
5	'''Jack:''' Don't think, I know.\
6	'''Ellie:''' Puh-leeze!\
7	'''Jack:''' Seriously, you ever had to "man up"?\
8	'''Ellie:''' You ever had to change clothes for Skirt Day?\
9	'''Jack:''' Uh...huh?????\
10	'''Ellie:''' Exactly. I wish I had your life, mine would be so much better.\
11	'''Jack:''' For reals? Take it. Then I'd get yours. I wouldn't mess that one up.\
12	'''Both:''' Deal!
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15	''The Swap'' is a 2016 Creator/DisneyChannel Original Movie. The film is based on the young adult novel of the same name written by Megan Shull, and is written by Charlie Shahnaian and Shari Simpson and directed by Jay Karas. It stars Creator/{{Peyton List\|1998}} and Creator/JacobBertrand.
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17	High school Sophomores Ellie O'Brien (List) and Jack Malloy (Bertrand) have been going through tough times with their families, and both have big events coming up that weekend -- Ellie's rhythmic gymnastics tournament, and Jack's hockey tryouts. When meeting up in the nurse's office, they get in a texting argument culminating in them wishing they had each other's lives, which results in them switching bodies. It isn't long for the two to realize their phones are really magical totems sent down by their ancestors which are powered by emotion, and they work to balance each other's lifestyle and keep their body swap a secret, while simultaneously finding a way to switch back before the swap becomes permanent.
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19	As a bit of trivia, both List and Bertrand would reunite in another teen-oriented comedy-drama, albeit one a lot less family-friendly than Disney's efforts: ''Film/TheKarateKid'''s Creator/{{Netflix}}-based revival, ''Series/CobraKai''.
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21	!! This provides examples of:
22	* AlphaBitch: Aspen, the fashionable new girl from New York who mocks Elle for being a “freak” and alienates her from Sassy.
23	* AdaptationDyeJob: Elle, who had curly red hair in the book is played by the blonde Peyton List for the movie.
24	* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Sassy is a minor example. In the book, she has no qualms against trashing Elle to her face whereas in the movie, she has a conversation with Aspen in which she hesitates to cut a friendship off with Elle. She also apologizes at the end of the film.
25	* AnAesop: Don't make assumptions about what other people or other genders go through. There is always more going on than you are prepared to deal with.
26	** [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Be Careful What You Wish For]]
27	* BetaBitch: Tori to Sassy in the book, even getting a bag of chips and opening it for her when she’s hungry.
28	* BookEnds: Ellie and Jack's FreakyFridayFlip is caused when they texted they wished they had each other's lives to be better. To swap back, they texted that their lives are much better now.
29	* TheCasanova: Sammy, Jack’s friend in the book, who is said to be a bit of a player.
30	* CelestialDeadline: Ellie's old phone (and the totem) will lose its service at 12:00 noon on her gymnastics show and Jack's hockey game, which will render it ineffective.
31	* CurseEscapeClause: Sort of, though the body swap isn't really a curse. Apparently, the only way out is to make peace in the life you get and the one you left behind.
32	* BeCarefulWhatYouSay: Apparently, this covers text messages too.
33	* BookEnds: Ellie and Jack's body swap occurs when they "wish their lives were so much better". To swap back, they have to end their texts with "My life is so much better."
34	* DaddysGirl: What Ellie seems to have been, before the divorce.
35	* DisappearedDad: Ellie's parents are divorced, and she lives with her mom and her dad appears to be mostly out of the picture.
36	* EurekaMoment: Ellie and Jack when they realize how better each other's life is, which is the key to switching back, and they rush to make it just in time.
37	* FreakyFridayFlip: The main premise of the movie. Bonus Points for making it a [[GenderBender gender swap]] as well.
38	* HereWeGoAgain: [[spoiler: Almost happens at the end, but is quickly averted by Jack and Ellie. Clearly they have no intentions of ever going through that again.]]
39	* GirlPosse: Sassy has one in the book who provide her an audience when she wants to be the center of attention.
40	* HiddenDepths: To both sides of the gender equation. There's more to being a guy or a girl than either Jack or Ellie realize. That may have more to do with the individuals involved, but the various gender dynamics and expectation do play a key role.
41	* JerkJock: Porter, who bullies Jack for being the Coach’s son. Jack’s dad and brothers also qualify.
42	* MissingMom: Jack's mother died a year before the beginning of the movie, and it's clearly still having a major impact on his relationship with his father.
43	* MyBelovedSmother: Ellie's mother, Summer, seems to be very overprotective of her only child.
44	* PinkGirlBlueBoy: The scene where Ellie and Jack are switching bodies is presented as Ellie being enveloped in a blue tornado as Jack gets enveloped in a pink one.
45	* PlatonicLifePartners: [[spoiler: Jack and Ellie seem to turn out this way by the end of the movie. Given how their parents are getting along, they may end up as family. Comes as a bit of a surprise though given who's telling the story. Disney has a long and proud history of pairing their leads up romantically.]]
46	* PowerPerversionPotential: Sticking a heterosexual teenager in a body of the opposite gender, three guesses what's most likely to happen. Actually subtly addressed by Disney for once. Jack in particular shows great respect to Ellie's body, wearing a bathing suit in the bath tub and reassuring Ellie he was "raised to be a gentleman" after he has to go to Ellie's physical exam.
47	* RaceAgainstTheClock: The second half of the movie becomes this after Ellie's mom assigns her a new phone. She and Jack have to switch back before Ellie’s current phone aka her totem loses its service [[CelestialDeadline at noon]] on Ellie’s gymnastics show and Jack’s hockey game, or they’ll be stuck in each other’s bodies forever.
48	* RaceLift: Sassy Gaines who was a white blonde girl in the books is played by the mixed Kiana Madeira in the books.
49	* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Given by [[spoiler: Jack (in Ellie's body) to Sassy for how she's been treating Ellie.]]
50	** Later done again by [[spoiler: Ellie (in Jack's body) to Jack's Dad and, by extension her own Dad for the way both of them treat their families.]]
51	* ToxicFriendInfluence: Aspen to Sassy, who becomes crueler to Elle under under influence.
52	* TickleTorture: Jack (in Ellie's body) has to endure this while getting her foot scrubbed with the pumice stone at the salon with her mother. Summer appears rather shocked as her "daughter" pleads to the technician for mercy, as if Ellie doesn't normally react this way during a pedicure.
53	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The first trailer plays up all the texting scenes, most of which don’t occur until the end of the movie. Another trailer spoils the scene where Ellie and Jack manage to switch back their bodies.
54	* TransformationSequence: Ellie and Jack switching bodies occurs this way.
55	* VoicesAreNotMental: When Ellie and Jack switch bodies, their voices don't, but they do have each other's thoughts.

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