# What movie was this? -- brain transplant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567 "2012-04-02T12:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/1 "2012-04-02T12:01:03Z")
Beautiful fashion model horribly injured in car crash, they manage to save her brain and put it into the body of an ordinary-looking woman, she has to go on with her life looking ordinary, her husband is no longer married to a hot babe, etc. Plays more like a straight _Lifetime_ Channel-type drama instead of some kind of MST3K-type schlockfest. Might be 1980s, possibly late '70s. No special effects that I can recall. The name Marg Helgenberger comes to mind, but she’s too gorgeous to be the ordinary-looking actress I have in mind. Similar name? Marg, not Margaret or other variation? Help! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/2 "2012-04-02T12:40:12Z")
[Who is Julia](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092208/), starring Mare Winningham. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/3 "2012-04-02T13:32:19Z")
WOW! Hole in one! Mare Winningham! Wow! This is SUCH an awesome place! πŸ˜ƒ Thank you so much! ---
**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/4 "2012-04-03T16:55:31Z")
Just about exactly the same premise is used in the series [Drop Dead Diva](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1280822/), except the fashion model goes to heaven, then mistakenly gets sent back into the body of a chubby lawyer. J. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/5 "2012-04-03T18:06:32Z")
So, not [The Man With Two Brains](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085894/)? πŸ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/6 "2012-04-03T18:19:28Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Beautiful fashion model horribly injured in car crash, they manage to save her brain and put it into the body of an ordinary-looking woman I fail to see the drama - that was going to happen when she turned 40 anyway. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-movie-was-this-brain-transplant/617567/7 "2012-04-03T19:47:23Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > So, not [The Man With Two Brains](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085894/)? πŸ˜ƒ Not even [The Thing With Two Heads](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069372/)