Freaky Friday (Ep. 42)

In this very special Mother’s Day episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss Mary Rodgers’ mother-daughter body-swap classic, Freaky Friday!

For this episode, we read and watched:

• Mary Rodgers’ original 1972 novel.
• The 1976 movie, directed by Gary Nelson, written by Rodgers, and starring Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.
• The 1995 TV movie, directed by Melanie Mayron, and starring Gaby Hoffman and Shelley Long. Watch it on YouTube.
• The 2003 movie, directed by Mark Waters, written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon, and starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis. Watch it on iTunes and Amazon.

Footnotes:

• Body swap appearances in media
• Vice Versa: A Lesson to Fathers by Thomas Anstey Guthrie
• The Freaky Friday musical, 2016, adapted into a TV movie for the Disney Channel in 2018
• Richard Rodgers (of Rodgers & Hammerstein) and Adam Guettel
• Once Upon a Mattress
• Taylor Negron
• Heather Hach and the Legally Blonde musical
• Rosalind Chao

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