Gary Nelson
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(This is no art film, though: the other movie I would bet money inspired Interstellar, at least partly, is the 1979 Disney space adventure The Black Hole.
Back in the late 80's, we had such age traveling films as "Big," in which Tom Hanks is a little boy who gets an adult body and father/son swaps like "Vice Versa," itself a spin on the mother/daughter reversal of 1976's "Freaky Friday," so the time seems ripe to resurrect the genre with "17 Again," a kind of merging of these films with "A Wonderful Life."
It’ll be embraced by the video/digital game generation and probably make a ton of moolah as Disney mulls dusting off its 1979 turkey “The Black Hole.”
From Freaky Friday (1977) to Big (1988), major Hollywood releases have often mined humour from characters of contrasting ages swapping bodies, tastes and social situations (2009’s 17 Again even starred Efron).
Marc McClure, whom you might remember as Jimmy Olsen from the Superman films or Marty McFly’s brother in “Back to the Future,” reprises his role of Boris from the original 1976 “Freaky Friday.”
On the Waterfront this ain't, but at the least the unfavorable comparisons that it draws are to Elia Kazan's classic apologia rather than to Disney's badly-aged 1976 Freaky Friday.
But unlike the two previous incarnations of the "Freaky Friday" franchise -- Barbara Harris in 1976 and Shelley Long in 1995 -- Curtis really does look like a middle-aged mom.
Of the above ingredients, only fantasy makes a strong appearance in "Freaky Friday," the delightful new remake of Disney's popular 1976 comedy.
Disney’s Freaky Friday a remake of the studio’s 1976 classic starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster as a mother and daughter who switch bodies for a day is certainly one of them.