# Body exchange movies- **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 6, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376 "2003-08-06T18:06:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unnildecium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3e96dc/32.png) [@unnildecium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unnildecium)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/1 "2003-08-06T18:06:32Z")
**Five sub-topics:** [1] How many can we name? **Freaky Friday** (2003) Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan \*\*Freaky Friday \*\*(1976) Barbara Harris, Jodie Foster **All of Me** (1984) Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin [2] Was Freaky Friday the first of this type? [3] Should we include some uni-body change movies, like **Big** (1988) Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins [4]What was the first uni-body swap movie? I know Mark Twain’s **A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court** (1921) was pretty early. [5]What was the first body-swap story? Must be earlier than Twain. (Don’t include disguise stories like The Prince and the Pauper) ---
**Author:** ![saramamalana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/2 "2003-08-06T18:09:27Z")
**Like Father, Like Son** - Kirk Cameron, Dudley Moore ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/3 "2003-08-06T18:10:59Z")
Switch (Jimmy Smits) Umm…Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage…what was that one called…Vice Versa Does Heaven Can Wait count? Along with the Chris Rock remake? ---
**Author:** ![greyseal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@greyseal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/greyseal)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/4 "2003-08-06T18:19:35Z")
**The Hot Chick** , with Rob Schneider. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/5 "2003-08-06T18:22:54Z")
**18 Again!** ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/6 "2003-08-06T18:34:39Z")
[Dream a Little Dream](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097236) There is a sequal, but i haven’t seen it and don’t know if it has the same plot. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/7 "2003-08-06T18:39:06Z")
Thorne Smith’s **Turnabout** was turned into a movie in [1940](http://us.imdb.com/Title?Turnabout+(1940)). Disney had **The Shaggy Dog** in 1959. ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/8 "2003-08-06T18:48:46Z")
**Freaky Friday (1995-TV)** – TV movie version with Shelley Long and Gaby Hoffman – not as bad as you might think **shaggy D.A.** quasi sequel to shaggy dog in 1976 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/9 "2003-08-06T18:49:27Z")
A search of the IMDB reveals [A Florida Enchantment](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0003973) in 1914. I also wouldn’t be surprised if Melies did something in the very early silent days. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/10 "2003-08-06T20:47:32Z")
**Chances Are** - Robert Downey Junior, Cybil Shepard **Prelude to a Kiss** - Meg Ryan, Alec Baldwin ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/11 "2003-08-06T21:15:15Z")
OK, by “body exchange” are we meaning 1) two people switch bodies, or 2) one person changes sex (non-surgically) or 3) a person turns into something else, or 4) reincarnation, or all of the above? Because A Florida Enchantment would not qualify under meaning 1 which is how I would define a body exchange. Neither would Switch, Heaven Can Wait (nor the original, Waiting for Mr Jordan nor the Chris Rock remake), All of Me nor the Shaggy Dog movies. I haven’t read or seen any version of Conn Yankee in King Arthur’s Court but isn’t that more of a fantasy time-travel story as opposed to a “body swap” or “uni-body swap” (whatever that means; how can a single body be “swapped”?). Defining our terms, ladies and gentlemen. ---
**Author:** ![joshmaker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@joshmaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joshmaker)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/12 "2003-08-06T22:17:18Z")
**Face/Off** - John Travolta, Nicolas Cage ---
**Author:** ![aaslatten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f14d63/32.png) [@aaslatten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aaslatten)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/13 "2003-08-07T02:02:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Otto \* > \*\*Neither would Switch, Heaven Can Wait (nor the original, Waiting for Mr Jordan nor the Chris Rock remake), All of Me nor the Shaggy Dog movies. \*\* I only added Shaggy D.A. because Realitychuck started the trend. /lame disclaimer ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/14 "2003-08-07T02:03:59Z")
**Being John Malkovich** ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/15 "2003-08-07T02:08:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Max Carnage \* > **Switch (Jimmy Smits)** Sigh. I miss MST3K. ---
**Author:** ![herwono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9f8e36/32.png) [@herwono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herwono)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/16 "2003-08-07T03:38:15Z")
[Dating the Enemy](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116036) (Guy Pearce, Claudia Karvan) 1996 [Wish Upon a Star](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0118178) (Katherine Heigl) 1996 ---
**Author:** ![herwono](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/9f8e36/32.png) [@herwono](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/herwono)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/17 "2003-08-07T04:45:14Z")
And a lot more at [metamorphose.org](http://www.metamorphose.org/list.htp?&o=Gm&&letter=A) Do these count? [The Santa Clause](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0111070) [The Parent Trap](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120783) - twin switch [Mrs Doubtfire](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0107614) - gender switch [Some Like it Hot](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0053291) - gender switch [The Nutty Professor](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0117218) ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/18 "2003-08-07T05:53:15Z")
[Vice Versa](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0096380). ---
**Author:** ![maleinblack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@maleinblack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maleinblack)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/19 "2003-08-07T06:25:28Z")
\*\* Big Momma’s House\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376/20 "2003-08-07T06:41:07Z")
The Harry Potter films, if you count Proffesor McGonagal’s transfigurations, Hermoine’s turning into that cat thing, etc. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/body-exchange-movies/193376.md?page=2)