trading places

Freaky Friday (2003) Just like every mother-daughter duo in cinematic history, 15-year-old punk-rock aficionado Anna (Lindsay Lohan) and her highly strung single mum Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) don’t get along. Anna hates her mum’s new fiancé, and Tess won’t let Anna live out her dreams of becoming a failed rockstar. But a couple of magic fortune cookies force them to see things through each other’s eyes – literally. This movie is an adaptation of the 1976 Freaky Friday, which practically birthed the entire body-swap genre. And while it keeps to a Disney aesthetic, making characters say ‘phooey’ instead of ‘fuck’, it’s fun and ambitious enough to feel at home in 2021. Lindsay Lohan’s matronly turn as a repressed 40-something makes me furious about what toxic early-2000s paparazzi culture stole from us as a