What happens if your mother and your exchange body? The intrigue of Friday Freaky: In my mother’s shoes It remains in a single line, and that is perhaps what explains the longevity of this Movie for teenagers 2000 – Understand a “learning film” that explores adolescence.
Dr. Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and his daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan) no longer get along. The first, a widow about to marry again, leads her career and the education of her two children. The second, 15, crosses the agony of adolescence, punctuated by bullying, the first emotions and rehearsals of their rock garage group. While the dialogue between mother and daughter is constantly broken by arguments, both are beaten by a spell: they exchange body and, therefore, they know each other better.
Adaptation of a homonymous novel by Gary Nelson, and a new movie – A Crazy, Crazy and Crazy Friday (1976) With Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, Mark Waters’ comedy was a great success as soon as it was launched in 2003, obtaining $ 160 million in world box office revenues. At the end of 2003, 4.97 million DVDs and VHS were sold, generating more than $ 85.7 million in revenues. How to explain that this film has become, for many, an important reference to pop culture of the 2000s?
An extraordinary actor game
Strange Friday Maybe he would not have the same resonance without the performance of Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. During the “Bodyswap” (body change for Francophils), a teenager’s first camp, bad in his skin, caught in his mother’s body. A fun situation that allows the actress, then 44, to offer a hilarious performance, adopting the gestures and jargon of young people (“(“You are ruining my life!“,” Ruins my life “, in French).
In front of her, Lindsay Lohan, 17. To seize this role of the responsible mother, the adolescent changes posture and in a way of expressing himself. An adult aspect, not to say strict, which contrasts with the usual image of the young woman. And impress. The Anna rock group audience remains, for many, a comic anthology scene.
Therefore, success is due to the skill of the two actresses and their complicity on the screen. The gags are also linked, each more fun than the other. However, it should also be admitted that certain comic springs have aged badly, evidenced by the waitresses of the waitresses in the Chinese restaurant (which flirt with an exotic image, if not racist).
Always topical themes
The narrative thread unwinds a universal feeling: that of a misunderstanding among generations, a broken dialogue with the family. Movie for teenagers par excellence, Strange Friday It makes children laugh and move as much as parents who can identify themselves in the character of Tess. The latter includes the daily life of her high school girl, harassed by her former best friend Stacy, only when she takes her place.
Run in the early 2000s, the feature film also remains lucid with the mental burden, which is the responsibility of mothers, all stronger in the case of solo mothers, and the problems of combined families. Therefore, Anna realizes that her mother jugs daily with overwhelming responsibilities: administering her consultations as a psychologist, organizing her marriage and taking care of little Harry.
A 2000 capsule
If the subject of Strange Friday It is still very current, the film turns out to be a real fresco of the 2000s, which also contributes to its success. Disney’s comedy proudly gives bohemian clothes, grunge looks, hair wicks and piercings, valves and self -transits. A witness of a past era for the youngest capsule for the nostalgic millennials of their secondary school years (and their ungrateful age).
The soundtrack, iconic, is also symbolic since the beginning of the century, alternating between a simple plan, a rock recovery of Baby once againeither What I like about you of Lilix, not forgetting the original compositions. The Pink Slip fictional group, led by Lindsay Lohan’s character, was even received by Fashion teenager As a cultural reference point that inspired a generation of young musicians.
The film that has become a cult will have the right to follow it: Freakier friday: still in my mother’s shoes It will be launched in theaters this Wednesday, August 6.
Source: BFM TV
