History Film / ViceVersa

* PlayingGertrude: Judge Reinhold was only 30 when the film was released, and his character has an 11-year-old son (played by Fred Savage, who is similarly only 19 years younger than Reinhold).

* TransferredTransformation: Notably the father and son shapeshift into eachother rather than swapping bodies.

* GenreSavvy: At the end, as they prepare to reverse the swap, Charlie (as an adult) instructs his child-sized father to remove his [=PJs=] to prevent them being shredded to bits in the ensuing transformation.

1988 body swap comedy featuring Creator/JudgeReinhold and Creator/FredSavage. It revolves around a thirty-ish department store executive Marshall Seymour (played by Reinhold) and his pre-teen son Charlie (played by Savage). Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

1988 body swap comedy featuring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It revolves around a thirty-ish department store executive Marshall Seymour (played by Reinhold) and his pre-teen son Charlie (played by Savage). Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

1988 body swap comedy featuring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It revolves around a thirty-ish department store executive (Marshall Seymour, played by Reinhold) and his pre-teen son Charlie (played by Savage). Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

Based on a novel of the same name by F. Antsey. It is the fourth screen adaptation, with other previous adaptations released in the UK in 1916, 1937, and 1948.

Body swap comedy featuring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It revolves around a thirty-ish department store executive (Marshall Seymour, played by Reinhold) and his pre-teen son Charlie (played by Savage). Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

* FountainOfYouth: 6'2" father Marshall is reduced to a small-for-his age preteen.

* OvernightAgeUp: Wide eyed preteen Charlie has to deal with the corporate world.

Based on a novel of the same name by F. Antsey.

Body swap comedy featuring Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage. It revolves around a thirty-ish department store executive (Marshall, played by Reinhold) and his pre-teen son Charlie (played by Savage). Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

Body swap comedy revolving around a thirty-ish department store executive (Marshall) and his pre-teen son Charlie. Mixes this with a caper/MacGuffin plot involving a mysterious jewelled skull which Marshall accidentally acquires, and which is now being hunted by two crooks. The two plots are joined because when two people touch the skull and say the right words, it can make people grow up, shrink or change sexes to resemble each other.

* MistakenForPrankCall: When Judge Reinhold's character races to answer the pay phone that one of the kidnappers is calling to, he is breathing so hard on his end for about less than a minute that the female kidnapper thinks it's a pervert on the phone until Judge's character reveals who he is.

* GenreSavvy: At the end, as they prepare to reverse the swap, Charlie (as an adult) instructs his child-sized father to remove his PJs to prevent them being shredded to bits in the ensuing transformation.

* XMeetsY: ''Film/FreakyFriday'' meets ''Film/{{Big}}''.

*AnAesop Along the lines of be thankful with what you've got.
*BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor If you don't want to find yourself either miniaturized or suddenly thrust into an adult world for which you've had no preparation.
*FreakyFridayFlip Here, the bodies change rather than the minds moving from one body to another. But the outcome is the same -- after a change of clothes.
*GenreSavvy At the end, as they prepare to reverse the swap, Charlie (as an adult) instructs his child-sized father to remove his PJs to prevent them being shredded to bits in the ensuing transformation.
*KarmicTransformation The father is forced to remember how a child's life feels, and the female crook takes on the form of the male minion she abused.
*McGuffin Ownership of the skull drives the subplot and FailureIsTheOnlyOption keeps the man in a child's body and the child in a man's body until the lesson is learned.
*FountainOfYouth 6'2" father Marshall is reduced to a small-for-his age preteen.
*ThirteenGoingOnThirty Wide eyed preteen Charlie has to deal with the corporate world.
*OnlyWorksOnce In the novel. In the movie, they need to work out ''how'' they did it, then they can do it again.
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