With all the ads for 17 Again, I was thinking about all the movies with a similar format. You know the adult become a kid or vice versa. We have movies like Freaky Friday, with the mother becoming the daughter, or Big, where the dad becomes the son.
How many movies with that theme have there been? Has there ever been one where the Mom becomes a son or the Dad becomes his daughter?
Like Father, Like Son - and Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron
18 Again - George Burns and Charlie Schlatter
Vice Versa - Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage
Vice Versa, from 1988, in which Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold play a father and son who switched places.
18 Again!, also from 1988, in which George Burns and Charlie Schlatter play a grandfather and grandson who switch.
In Prelude to a Kiss, and elderly man and a young woman get switched, but they aren’t related.
ETA: Scooped!
Well, in Big, the boy gets an adult body. There’s no dad or switching.
ETA: There was another Seventeen Again with the Mowry sisters, where two grandparents become seventeen. Again, no switching exactly. But one Mowry sister plays the grandma at 17 again and the other plays her granddaughter who’s already 17.
There was also 13 Going on 30.
Freaky Friday from TV Tropes.
That’s not what happened in Big - a 13 year old boy grew into a full-grown adult. No Dad-switching.
There’s also The Kid, where 12 year old Bruce Willis shows up to teach adult Bruce Willis the value of life or something.
Thanks for the correction, shows how long it’s been since I’ve seen that movie.
Well if there are any other movies similar to “Big” let’s include that too.
Well, for the age-changing aspect, there’s 2001, in which a strapping young astronaut rapidly becomes a decrepit old man before transforming into a giant floating fetus. But that’s probably not quite what you’re looking for.
For magical body-changing, there’s Goodbye Charlie and Switch, both centered on men who are murdered and somehow come back as adult women.
Judging from the title, I thought this was going to be things like that episode of Red Dwarf where Lister discovers that he’s his father and his girlfriend is his mother.
Sorry, I’m afraid I can only be tangential this morning.
Well, there’s always Heinlein.
Or the Futurama episode where Fry becomes his own grandfather.
Not quite the same thing, but Peggy Sue Got Married has adult Kathleen Turner going back and reliving high school.
No age changes, but no body-switch list would be complete without Topper (1940), made from the 1931 book by Thorne Smith. A bickering couple magically exchange bodies, and hilarity ensues.
I have not actually seen The Hot Chick, but apparently Rachel McAdams and Rob Schneider switch bodies through some magical mumbo jumbo.
But I have seen All of Me, where there’s quite a bit of body swapping and sharing (mostly between Steve Martin & Lily Tomlin) going on.
Paging Walter Lolich.
In Heaven Can Wait Warren Beatty switches into a couple of other bodies. The TV Series Quantum Leap was all about Scott Bakula jumping from person to person.
There was a book series–Help, I’m Trapped…and a lot of them involved being trapped in someone else’s body, like a teacher. I don’t think they were ever movies, though.
Motocross rider Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) became his own great grandfather in Timerider.
Isn’t Peggy Sue Got Married, pretty much exactly the same thing as 17 Again?
Someone mentioned Heaven Can Wait. Note that it was a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan and a stage play also called Heaven Can Wait, and was remade with Chris Rock as Down To Earth. And there’s also Dream A Little Dream with Corey Feldman and Jason Robards.
Not quite…in Peggy Sue Got Married she actually mentally goes back in time to inhabit her teenage self. In 17 Again he actually becomes his teenage self in the current day (he interacts with his own kids as a teenager).
Plus Kathleen Turner plays herself as an adult and as a teen. And isn’t it sort of ambiguous–like, did she really go back, was it a dream? But something had changed when she came back, so maybe not…