Freakier Friday expands to a four-way body swap

Freakier Friday, the long-awaited sequel to the 2003 body-swap comedy Freaky Friday, arrives in theaters with Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprising their mother-daughter duo, Tess and Anna. The film expands the premise by adding Anna’s teenage daughter and Lily, Annas soon-to-be stepdaughter, into a four-way swap that broadens the family-centered chaos and injects a multigenerational dynamic into the storytelling. Directed by Nisha Ganatra, the movie opened strongly at the domestic box office and has tallied international revenue close to its production budget, signaling continued audience interest in nostalgia-driven family comedies.

The new installment picks up 22 years after the original, with Anna now a single mother to Harper and Tess navigating her daughter’s teenage world. A chance encounter with a fortune teller kicks off a fresh wave of body-switching that sends Anna and Tess into the bodies of Harper and Lily, respectively, while the two younger characters end up in their elders’ forms. The ensemble also includes returning figures from the first film, such as Chad Michael Murray’s Jake and Stephen Tobolowsky’s Mr. Bates, along with Julia Butters and Sophia...