# "I'm My Own Child" type movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 14, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108 "2009-04-14T20:19:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/1 "2009-04-14T20:19:24Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/2 "2009-04-14T20:34:00Z")
[Like Father, Like Son](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093418/) - and Dudley Moore and Kirk Cameron [18 Again](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094593/) - George Burns and Charlie Schlatter [Vice Versa](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096380/) - Judge Reinhold and Fred Savage ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/3 "2009-04-14T20:36:48Z")
[Vice Versa](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096380/), from 1988, in which Fred Savage and Judge Reinhold play a father and son who switched places. [18 Again!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094593/), also from 1988, in which George Burns and Charlie Schlatter play a grandfather and grandson who switch. In [Prelude to a Kiss](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105165/), and elderly man and a young woman get switched, but they aren’t related. ETA: Scooped! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/4 "2009-04-14T20:39:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/5 "2009-04-14T20:41:39Z")
There was also [13 Going on 30](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337563/). [Freaky Friday](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FreakyFriday) from TV Tropes. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/6 "2009-04-14T20:41:57Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > _Big_, where the dad becomes the son. 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](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0219854/), where 12 year old Bruce Willis shows up to teach adult Bruce Willis the value of life or something. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/7 "2009-04-14T23:53:28Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Well, in Big, the boy gets an adult body. There’s no dad or switching. 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. ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/8 "2009-04-15T18:12:28Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/9 "2009-04-15T18:15:15Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > 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. Well, there’s always [Heinlein](http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~mfedder/zombies.html). ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/10 "2009-04-15T18:19:36Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > 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. Or the Futurama episode where Fry becomes his own grandfather. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/11 "2009-04-15T18:46:21Z")
Not quite the same thing, but Peggy Sue Got Married has adult Kathleen Turner going back and reliving high school. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/12 "2009-04-16T18:50:39Z")
No age changes, but no body-switch list would be complete without [_Topper_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033190/) (1940), made from the 1931 book by Thorne Smith. A bickering couple magically exchange bodies, and hilarity ensues. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/13 "2009-04-16T19:04:48Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/14 "2009-04-16T19:11:01Z")
Paging [Walter Lolich](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33438). ---
**Author:** ![cmosdes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@cmosdes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmosdes)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/15 "2009-04-16T19:17:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/16 "2009-04-16T19:35:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/17 "2009-04-16T19:41:51Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > Or the Futurama episode where Fry becomes his own grandfather. Motocross rider Lyle Swann (Fred Ward) became his own great grandfather in _Timerider_. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/18 "2009-04-16T19:48:30Z")
> [@Paintcharge](#): > > Not quite the same thing, but Peggy Sue Got Married has adult Kathleen Turner going back and reliving high school. 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. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/19 "2009-04-16T19:55:33Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Isn’t Peggy Sue Got Married, pretty much exactly the same thing as 17 Again? 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). ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108/20 "2009-04-16T20:07:47Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > 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… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-my-own-child-type-movies/493108.md?page=2)