Like Father Like Son (1987)
Directed by Rod Daniel
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
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What critics compared Like Father Like Son to
For the record, Freaky Friday, while contemporarily the equal of the original, happens to be better than Vice Versa, Like Father, Like Son, and 18 Again.
Thankfully, it died out after the hideous Kirk Cameron/Dudley Moore picture, Like Father, Like Son.)
And we saw Dudley Moore switch places with his kid in "Like Father, Like Son"; and Tom Hanks as a child in an adult body in "Big"; and male chauvinistic pigs shifted into the bodies of beautiful women in "Goodbye, Charlie" and "Switch."
Kore-eda is one of history’s best filmmakers at analyzing what the word “family” even means—it’s a theme of this, “Like Father, Like Son,” “Our Little Sister,” “After the Storm,” and more—and I’m so happy that the world seems to be embracing his Master status.
The filmmaker continues that mash-up trend with "Freaky," yet another slasher offering but this time where the killer and his would-be victim end up switching bodies a la the likes of "Like Father, Like Son," "Vice Versa" and, yes, this film's namesake, "Freaky Friday," among others.