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->''A journey soon begins, its prize reflected in another's eyes. When what you see is what you lack, then selfless love will change you back.''
-->--'''The magic cookie's fortune'''

''Freaky Friday'' is a 2003 Creator/{{Disney}} film, and Disney's second film adaptation of [[Literature/FreakyFriday the children's novel of the same name]] by Mary Rodgers, which was previously adapted as [[Film/FreakyFriday1976 a 1976 theatrically-released feature film]] by the author of the original book and a relatively obscure 1995 made-for-TV feature film.

This adaptation stars Creator/LindsayLohan[[note]]In her first theatrical movie role since the 1998 version of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1998}}''[[/note]] as Anna Coleman, an aspiring teenage guitarist who doesn't get along with her mother, widowed psychologist Tess (Creator/JamieLeeCurtis)--to say the least. The day before Tess is supposed to remarry, she and Anna switch bodies after a Chinese restaurant owner's mother hands them some magic fortune cookies. HilarityEnsues, with the now-young mother struggling to survive high school ''again'', and the now-old daughter trying to cluelessly deal with psychiatric duties. It eventually transpires that they switched bodies in order to learn AnAesop about the value of family and friendship. The film also features Creator/ChadMichaelMurray as Anna's crush Jake and [[Series/{{NCIS}} Mark Harmon]] as Tess' fiance Ryan.

In May 2023, [[https://variety.com/2023/film/news/freaky-friday-sequel-lindsay-lohan-jamie-lee-curtis-return-1235609329/ a sequel was announced to be in development]], with Curtis and Lohan set to reprise their roles.

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!!Tropes demonstrated in the film:

* AdaptationExpansion: The original book and films were mostly just a plotless excuse for gags, with the body swap going completely unexplained. The remake not only gives an explanation but also features a good deal of interaction between the swapped mother and daughter, who are both completely on their own in the original film (and the book didn't even feature any of the mother's story).
* AdaptationNameChange: Compared to the original book and '70s movie:
** Annabel Andrews --> Anna Coleman
** Ellen Andrews --> Dr. Tess Coleman
** Ben “Ape Face” Andrews, Annabel's brother --> Harry Coleman, Anna's brother
** Boris/Morris, Annabel's potential LoveInterest --> Jake, Anna's potential LoveInterest
* AnAesop: Parents and their children should each walk a mile in the other's shoes before judging them. No one's life is as easy as it looks.
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted. Tess' assumption when she learns Anna has a crush on Jake, an older student she knows nothing about other than the fact he often visits her in detention and rides a motorcycle, is that he has a rule-breaking attitude that attracts her daughter. However, Tess later learns that Jake's not really a bad boy; he works two jobs and helps Tess-in-Anna's-body finish a test she couldn't complete after getting detention. In fact, he's turned ''off'' when Tess-in-Anna's-body sabotages Stacy's test in revenge. After this, Tess then allows Anna to date Jake.
* AlliterativeTitle
* AllThereInTheScript: Maddie is the only member of the band besides Anna herself to be named onscreen. The others are Peg (the other female guitarist), Ethan (drummer), and Scott (bassist).
** Ryan's family name is Volvo, according to earlier drafts.
* AlmostKiss: Anna in Tess' body invokes this whenever Ryan tries to kiss her.
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Harry to Anna, very much so. [[spoiler:But when Anna as Tess goes to Harry's parent-teacher conference, she finds out that he actually admires and looks up to her a great deal--but he doesn't want her to know since he has too much fun fighting with her.]]
* ArtisticTitle: After a LogoJoke in which the Walt Disney Pictures logo fades into parchment paper, the opening credits briefly resemble an old photo album.
* BadVibrations: The earthquakes that occur once the body-switching spell is cast and later reversed. (The second earthquake is even larger than the first.)
* BaldOfEvil: Anna's English teacher, Mr. Bates.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Anna's childhood friend, Stacy Hinkhouse, who acts pleasant and nice to Tess but is horrible to Anna.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Anna's GirlPosse. Anna has Creator/LindsayLohan's red hair, but with prominent white-blonde streaks. Anna's two best friends have red hair and black hair respectively.
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Played with. Anna and Tess are only half right when they say their respective lives are hard and [[TemptingFate they would have an easier time in each other's lives]]. Tess's point about her life being hard is proven when Anna has to undertake all the [[GrowingUpSucks hardships and responsibilities]] that come with being her mother. Meanwhile, Anne's point about having a hard life is also proven when Tess experiences first-hand being a teenager in high school isn't as [[NostalgiaFilter cushy]] as she remembers.
* BrattyHalfPint: Anna's little brother and his friends.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Tess sees Anna as this, always complaining about her teacher and Stacey, getting in trouble and bad grades as well as wanting to go to an audition during Tess's rehearsal dinner. Tess later learns that Anna is not a bad kid and all her complaints were true.
* CaptainObvious: Anna is a less than skilled psychologist.
--> '''Patient''': So I read your book, and it made me feel really depressed.
--> '''Anna''': [[StockPhrase And how do you feel about that?]]
--> '''Patient''': ...Depressed.
* CassandraTruth:
** At first, Tess doesn't believe that Anna's teacher is exacting his revenge on Anna - until she finds out for herself, while in Anna's body.
** Tess also refuses to believe that Anna's former best friend, Stacy, is really as psychotic as Anna claims her to be- until Stacy pushes Tess (in Anna's body) over a bicycle rack and later lands her in detention after framing her for cheating.
* CastingGag: Lindsay Lohan [[Film/TheParentTrap1998 once again]] playing dual roles.
* CloudCuckooLander: Anna meets some while dealing with her mother's patients. Of special note are a paranoid man and an [[TheUnintelligible unintelligible]] woman.
* TheCobblersChildrenHaveNoShoes: Tess is a psychiatrist to mothers with teenage daughters but doesn't appear to understand Anna at all.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: An angry Ryan confronts not-Tess with the knowledge that he saw her straddling a much younger man on the back of "a big black Harley". Not-Tess snidely replies, "Hello? Dude, it was a ''Ducati''!"
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: After Tess learns that Anna received two detentions in a single Thursday, she removes the door to Anna's bedroom and hides it in the basement.
-->"Privacy is a privilege, Anna."
* CoolTeacher: Implied. Anna seems to like the detention monitor enough to swap lunches with her and bring her an extra drink.
* {{Cover Version}}s: Basically every background song that isn't sung by Lindsay Lohan is this.
* CreativeClosingCredits: Anna and her band rock out at Tess' wedding reception, while the names of cast and crew appear written down on floating pieces of parchment.
* CreatorCameo: Director Mark Waters is the man holding a baby at the wedding.
* DeathByAdaptation: See below.
* DisappearedDad: Unlike all other versions up to this point, Anna's father died a few years before the events of the story occur, likely to play up the mother/daughter drama that sets off the story.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: After Tess and Anna realize that they must become "selfless" to switch back, per the text of the fortune, they unsuccessfully attempt an AstralProjection.
* DreadfulMusician: For all his good looks and bike riding, Jake can not carry a tune.
* DressesTheSame: Anna and another girl accidentally wear the same shirt to school. Anna turns her shirt inside-out to avoid looking the same and looks...well, actually, stupider than if she had just left the shirt as it was.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Anna, in Tess's body, tries driving to Harry's school for the parent-teacher conference, but ends up driving out-of-control when Tess, in Anna's body, takes away her french fries.
* EvilIsPetty: [[spoiler: It turns out that the reason why Anna’s SadistTeacher always puts her down and punishes her, even when she gives him the correct answer, is because Anna’s mother rejected him back in high school. Even Tess (inside Anna’s body) tells him that his revenge is petty, and she proceeds to call him out and threaten him to stop or she’ll report him to the school]].
* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The movie takes place over three days.
* FaceCam: Used on Anna's face after Tess wakes up in Anna's body, to demonstrate her disorientation.
* FormerFriendOfAlphaBitch: Anna's grade school friend, Stacy Hinkhouse, became an AlphaBitch by the time they entered high school. Tess, while in Anna's body, tries to restore their friendship. Stacy seems willing to help make peace, [[spoiler:[[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk but then she frames "Anna" for copying her answers during a test]], [[NotSoAboveItAll to which Tess later responds by erasing some of Stacy's answers and writing "I'm stupid!" over them]]]]. Earlier, she also hugs Anna [[spoiler:before pulling her shirt over her head and pushing her over a bicycle rack]].
* FreakyFridayFlip: It's a remake of an adaptation of the TropeNamer, after all.
* FreudianExcuse: Played with. It's implied in Anna's [[note]] in Tess's body[[/note]] rant to one of Tess's patients that the reason Stacy is so mean to Anna is that they both had a crush on a cute boy (who may or may not be Jake), and she turned on Anna to have this boy. While not a sympathetic excuse, it does explain what set off their rivalry in the first place.
* GirlPosse: Both Anna and Stacy have one, but Anna's (Maddie and Peg) only appear in a handful of scenes and Stacy's only appear once [[spoiler:when they flip Tess over a bicycle rack]] and have no dialogue. Stacy's posse actually did have another scene that was deleted, when Tess (in her daughter's body), punches her right in the nose. They still have no lines and aren't even credited or given names.
* GrowingUpSucks: Played with. Anna initially assumes that adulthood has way fewer problems than high school. She learns otherwise after the switch. However, Tess also learns that high school for Anna is not as easy as Tess remembers it either.
* GuiltyPleasures: Occurs in-universe: Anna (in Tess' body) and Jake agree that "[[Music/BritneySpears ...Baby One More Time]]" is one of these.
* HandsLookingWrong: When Tess wakes up in her daughter Anna's body unaware that their minds have been switched, she is confused about waking up in Anna's room. Then she checks her hair and hands and realizes what's happened.
* HereWeGoAgain: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Pei Pei's mother gives Anna's brother and grandfather the ''same'' fortune cookies when they started arguing. Luckily Pei-Pei was able to retrieve the fortune cookies before they open them.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Tess is oblivious to how much of an AnnoyingYoungerSibling Harry is to Anna, and mistakenly thinks the AlphaBitch Stacy Hinkhouse is nice and sweet because the last time she checked, which was ''years'' ago, they ''were'' best friends. Being in Anna's body eventually makes her realize the reality.
* IronicEcho: PlayedForLaughs. When Tess [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment removes Anna's bedroom door]], she says condescendingly, "Privacy is a privilege, Anna." Later, when Anna and Tess have switched bodies, Tess enters Anna's room to avoid suspicion only to find no door. Cue Anna (in Tess's body) with a snarky, "Privacy is a ''privilege'', Anna!"
* {{Irony}}: Tess believes Anna is 'too young' for Jake. Later, after being disappointed that Tess (seemingly Anna) sabotaged Stacy's paper, Jake decides that Anna's too young for him. [[PlayedForLaughs Tess is at a loss for words]].
* JerkassHasAPoint: Anna might be self-centered at times (and her advice is questionable at best), but she's not wrong to say it's bad form for a parent [[note]] namely one of Tess's patients [[/note]] to snoop through their own daughter's diary. Even with good intentions, it's still a betrayal of trust and a violation of privacy.
* KarmaHoudini: Stacy gets away scot-free with [[spoiler:framing Anna for cheating during the exam, unless Tess erasing and replacing Stacy's answers with "I'm stupid!" counts]]. She is never seen or mentioned afterward nor does she appear during the wedding scene at the end. There was originally a scene where Tess took more direct vengeance by confronting Stacy and her posse after the exams and slugging her hard in the face, breaking her nose. It never made it into the final cut, as the director felt it was too extreme.
* LogoJoke: The Walt Disney Pictures logo fades into a piece of parchment paper, transitioning into the opening credits. This film is notable for being one of the last to use the original 1985 logo fanfare.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Rare non-GenderBender variation. After the switch happens, Tess is convinced that something is wrong when she grabs her/Anna's butt.
-->"That's ''definitely'' not mine!"
* MeaningfulName: [[Film/{{Psycho}} Mr. Bates]], anyone?
* MisplacedNamesPoster: Justified, since both Anna and Tess spend most of the movie trapped in each other's bodies. Consequently, both the names of the actresses appear on the opposite side of the poster. So you can imagine Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as a young woman in office wear and Creator/LindsayLohan as an old punk in teenager clothes.
* MistakenForQuake: Parodied with their senile grandfather. When Anna and Tess tell him they think there was an earthquake, he starts panicking over a natural disaster that he must have somehow missed despite being there and awake for the whole thing. He mistakes his grandson shaking the table for an earthquake, and [[spoiler:of course he freaks out when "the big one" hits the rehearsal dinner to switch Anna and Tess back into their proper bodies]]. It's kind of understandable considering he lives in southern California...
* MythologyGag: The cover to Tess's book "Through the Looking Glass" is the same as the original ''Freaky Friday'' novel.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer shows Tess and Anna switching bodies right after they open the cookies, but in the actual movie, they don't switch until [[WhenTheClockStrikesTwelve the clock strikes midnight]] on Friday morning.
* NewBodyOldAbilities: Near the end, Anna in Tess's body is still perfectly able to play her guitar when her band plays whilst Tess pretends to play.
* NiceGuy:
** Ryan, the man to whom Tess is getting married. He's friendly, likable, handsome (it ''is'' Mark Harmon), and - as we eventually discover - actually very interested in being a good stepfather to Anna and Harry. He just wants it to be on ''their'' terms, so he doesn't try to push them into liking him.
** Jake as well. He is always courteous to Anna and Tess, is revealed to work two jobs, and is [[EverybodyHasStandards unimpressed]] when he sees what "Anna" does to Stacy's test.
* NoodleIncident: No cause for Mr. Coleman's passing is brought up.
* NotAMorningPerson: Tess has so much trouble waking up Anna, that it takes Harry blowing an air horn to get her out of bed.
* NotSoAboveItAll: After Stacy frames Tess (in Anna's body) of cheating off of her test, not even Tess (a full-grown woman and a renowned psychologist) can resist a little retaliation.
* OnlyOneName: Downplayed; Ryan's surname is not said in the final film, going so far with Anna's bandmates referring to him as "Mr. Dude", but early drafts of the script reveal it as Volvo. Played straight with Jake and Anna's bandmates.
* ParentalObliviousness; Downplayed. While Tess is aware of some areas of Anna's life, she, along with Anna unwilling to share them, sees the details only at-face value. Which leads to her writing Jake off as a bad boy, and Anna as a BrattyTeenageDaughter trying to avoid taking responsibility for her issues.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: One of Tess' patients apparently has abandonment issues.
* PopculturalOsmosisFailure: When Tess in Anna's body complains that she looks like Music/StevieNicks, Anna replies "[[TomboyishName Who's he?]]"
* ThePowerOfLove: The familial "selfless love" that Tess and Anna demonstrate to undo the switch provides a non-romantic example of this.
* PrecisionFStrike:
** Ryan says "what the hell" ''twice''; first when calling out Anna-as-Tess for making him out to be a bad guy, and again when he asks a freshly switched-back Tess about the earthquake that just occurred.
** Tess-as-Anna gets one in when she’s chewing out Anna-as-Tess for destroying her professional reputation on the talk show and giving her body a “makeover from hell” during the shopping spree.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Tess, while in Anna's body, calls out the {{jerkass}} English teacher in front of the class. [[spoiler: She has discovered the reason he's so evil towards Anna is that he is the same guy Tess declined going to the School Prom with, so she commands him to let the past go.]]
--> '''Anna''': ''[Confronting Mr. Bates for failing her answer that was correct]'' Mr. Bates, may I please speak with you?
--> '''Mr. Bates''': I think that would be fairy pointless, but go ahead.
--> '''Anna''': By what stretch of the imagination...I mean, like, how could I, like, get an F? What mistakes did I make?
--> '''Mr. Bates''': Grading is subjective.
--> '''Anna''': That was a college-level analysis!
--> '''Mr. Bates''': And you're qualified to make that assessment?
--> '''Anna''': As a matter of fact, I most certainly am.
--> '''Mr. Bates''': Well, [[InUniverseFactoidFailure in the words of Hamlet]], "What's done is done."
--> '''Anna''': ''[annoyed]'' That's Macbeth, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll you know-nothing]] twit– ''[upon realization]'' Bates! Elton Bates! Griffith High School.
--> '''Mr. Bates''': How do you know that?
--> '''Anna''': You asked me...I mean, my mom to the prom, but she turned you down.
--> '''Mr. Bates''': This is not an appropriate subject-
--> '''Anna''': And now you're taking it out on her daughter, aren't you?! Aren't you?!
--> '''Mr. Bates''': I don't know what you're talking about!
--> '''Anna''': Oh, come on! It was a high school dance! You've got to let it go and move on, man! And if you don't, I'm sure the school board would love to hear about your pathetic vendetta against an innocent student. ''[Starts to leave, but stops to make a final remark]'' Oh, and by the way, Elton, she had a boyfriend, and you were weird.
* RefugeInAudacity: At one point, Anna in Tess's body has to go on a talk show and discuss one of Tess's books. Having never read the book, Anna instead resorts to promoting immature behavior among the adult viewers. She even [[spoiler:autographs ''one of the cameramen's butts'']].
* RemakeCameo: Marc [=McClure=], who played Annabel's love interest Boris in the original ''Freaky Friday'', plays Boris the delivery man.
* TheRemake: Of ''Film/FreakyFriday1976''.
* SadistTeacher: Due to him resenting Anna's mother, her English teacher is like this. While in Anna's body, Tess gives a very intelligent answer to a question on Hamlet, and he fails her on the grounds of being "overreaching". And earlier in the film, he claimed Anna didn't understand ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour''. Her response demonstrates she did and he quickly puts her in detention for a sly remark she makes. [[spoiler:It turns out that the reason that teacher does this is that, back when he and Tess attended high school as students, he asked Tess out and she rejected him. As such, he's exacting revenge by flunking her daughter. Tess, in Anna's body, calls him out on his behavior and tells him to stop or she'll report his pettiness to the school board.]]
* SerenadeYourLover: Parodied. Jake attempts to serenade "Tess," whose body is still possessed by Anna, by (horribly) singing "...Baby One More Time".
* ShoppingMontage: Anna goes on a shopping spree while in her mother's body and tries on various clothes and gets herself a makeover.
* TheSociopath: Stacy Hinkhouse. It's apparent that being a full-blown psychopath and bullying Anna is so much more fun for her and is glad to stop being friends with Anna.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: When first seeing her mother in her body, Anna thinks Tess is a "clone freak" and raises her voice at her. In turn, Tess scolds "Don't you dare use that tone on me, young lady!" Anna cannot refute that the 'clone freak' standing before her really ''is'' her mother.
* SplitScreen: As the mother and daughter activate the body-switching spell from two different places--Anna reads her fortune from inside a bathroom, while Tess reads hers from outside the door. The wall dividing the rooms also divides the screen.
* StacysMom: Played With. Jake's crush on Tess...but she's actually Anna, who reciprocates his feeling, but does not (because she cannot) start a relationship with him. The real Tess does not have romantic feelings for him.
* StockPhrase: Tess asks Anna not to give any of her patients advice, and instead do nothing but pretend to take notes and occasionally ask the patient, "And how do you feel about that?" She follows the advice to the letter [[spoiler:until she comes across a patient who admits to snooping around in her own daughter's diary, at which point Anna flies off the handle and emphatically lectures the lady on the mentality of a teenage girl - something she can genuinely contribute advice about]].
* TakeAThirdOption: The choice seems to be that 'Anna' can either go to Tess's rehearsal dinner or an audition at the House of Blues. [[spoiler: She goes to the dinner and Ryan lets her friends take her to the audition]]. This really cements Anna's decision to give him a chance at being her stepfather.
* TrueCompanions: In light of what [[AlphaBitch Stacy Hinkhouse]] became, it's clear that Maddie and Peg are the true friends to Anna. They encourage her (really Tess) when she gets nervous before the audition with Peg saying they'll still love her even if the gig doesn't pan out. Plus, Maddie allows Anna to be the frontwoman for "Ultimate" at the wedding.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: If you look [[FreezeFrameBonus in the background]] of the scene where Anna and Jake talk for the first time, you'll see some posters that say "Stacy Hinkhouse for Student President!"
* WeAreNotGoingThroughThatAgain: When Anna's brother and grandfather have an argument like the one Anna and Tess had before their swap, Pei-Pei's mother offers them the fortune cookies. Fortunately, Pei-Pei stops the two from opening the cookies.
* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** Tess (in Anna's body) invokes this when she confronts Stacy when she reminds her of [[NostalgiaFilter all the good times she and Anna used to have]]. [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[ThenLetMeBeEvil those memories mean nothing to Stacy]].]]
** Averted with Anna herself, who knows full well that whatever she had with Stacy is long gone and chews Tess out for not seeing it.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Jake expresses disgust at Tess' erasing the answers on Stacy's scantron, as revenge for something mean Stacy tried to do to Anna.
** Ryan delivers one to Anna (who he thinks is Tess) when she voices her thoughts that he doesn't care about her. He gives her a speech that makes her realize that he does indeed.
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