The 11 Best Body-Swap Movies, Ranked
With "Good Fortune" entering theaters, we break down some of our favorite tales of switched identities.
Who hasn’t at least once fantasized about switching lives with someone who, from a distance, seems to have a more comfortable, secure, happier existence?
While Shakespeare and others created stories about characters pretending to be someone else, it was Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper that popularized the idea of people in opposite circumstances trying out each other’s lives.
“The Parent Trap,” Disney’s 1961 and 1998 films, based on the 1949 German book Lise and Lotte, had identical twins taking each other’s place.
When Mary Rodgers wrote Freaky Friday in 1972, about a mother and daughter switching not just places but bodies, it inspired dozens of variations.
Many, like Rodgers’ book, focus on family; some, like the Hallmark “Princess Switch” trilogy, on romance; some, like “Freaky,” explore thriller or horror genres.
Author’s summary: Exploring body-swap movies ranked.
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