Freaky Friday (2003)

Country of Origin: USA
Year of Production: 2002
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Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Casual Friday Productions / Gunn Films
Production Executive: Kristin Burr
Executive Producer: Mario Iscovich
Producer: Andrew Gunn
Co-Producer: Ann Marie Sanderlin
Unit Production Manager: Paul Moen
Production Coordinator: Ellen Wolff

SCRIPT
Script: Heather Hach, Leslie Dixon
Novel: Mary Rodgers

DIRECTION
Director: Mark S. Waters
1st Assistant Director: Benjamin Rosenberg
2nd Assistant Director: Eric A. Pot
2nd 2nd Assistant Director: Paula Janos

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Oliver Wood
Camera Operator: William D. Barber
Electrician: Kieran Waugh
Additional Grip: Eli Golub
Grip: Peter McAdams
Video Assist Operator: Michael Herron
Colour Timer: Lee Wimer

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Bruce Green
Assistant Editor: Bethany Orlemann

MUSIC
Music: Rolfe Kent
Song Performed By: Simple Plan (So Happy Together)
Music Editors: Andrew Silver, Nick South
Temp and Source Music Editor: Jay B. Richardson
Assistant Music Editor: Robb Boyd
Music Supervisor / Executive Album Producer: Lisa Brown
Music Producers: Michael Simpson, Mike Simpson

SOUND
Production Sound Mixer: Paul Ledford
Boom Operator: Randall L. Johnson
Sound Re-Recording Mixers: Dean A. Zupancic, Terry Porter
Supervising Sound Editor: Todd Toon
Sound Editor: Charles W. Ritter

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Key Make Up: Tara Smith, Clinton Wayne
Costume Designer: Genevieve Tyrrell

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Director: Al Broussard
Special Effects Foreman: Thomas Rasada

VISUAL EFFECTS
Digital Compositor: Jacqueline Allard

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Cary White
Art Director: Maria Baker
Set Decorator: Barbara Haberecht
Set Dressing Buyer: Jill S. Coverdale
Sculptor: Grey Hill
Construction Coordinator: Gary A. Krakoff
Art Department Coordinator: Dawn Ascher
Art Department Production Assistant: Andrew Ortner

MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Pamela Alch
Accountant: Barbara Gutman
Assistant Accountant: Karen Faust
2nd Assistant Accountant: Nancy S. Rand
Payroll Accountant: Amy Denning Winfrey
Key Set Production Assistant: Gregory J. Pawlik Jr
Set Production Assistants: Brinton Bryan, Christoph Ischinger, Hunter Lee, Sarah Clifford
Production Assistants: Josh Vener, Brazil Joseph Grisaffi III (uncredited)
Assistant To Producer: Tara Tortorello
Assistant To Director: Veronica Brooks
Unit Publicist: Toni Atterbury
Driver: John Burnette

LOCATIONS
Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA; Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA
Key Assistant Location Manager: Marie Healy

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Jimmy Romano
Stunt Doubles: Terri McCoy, Larry Nicholas, Jill Stokesberry, Rick Sawaya

CASTING
Casting: Marci Liroff
Casting Associate: Jamie Sparer
Extras Casting: Summer Wesson

CAST
Jamie Lee Curtis (Tess Coleman)
Lindsay Lohan (Annabell Coleman)
Harold Gould (Grandpa)
Janet Choi (Dr Mary Ann Smyth)
Chad Murray (Jake)
Mark Harmon (Ryan)
Cayden Boyd (Harry's friend)
Veronica Brooks (waitress)
Chris Carlberg (Ethan)
Julie Gonzalo (Stacey Hinkhouse)
Haley Hudson (Peg)
Michael Lohan (Victor)
Ryan Malgarini (Harry Coleman)
Marc McClure (Boris Harris)
Danny Rubin (Scott)
Stephen Tobolowsky (Mr Bates)
Christina Vidal (Maddie)
Jesse Heiman (uncredited)
Hans Hernke (student - uncredited)

PLOT SUMMARY

Tensions are running high between Tess Coleman and her teenage daughter Anna – Tess won't support Anna's desire to be in a rock band while Anna won't accept her mother's new fiancé. One Thursday night, a pair of magical Chinese fortune cookies causes them to switch places and when they wake on Friday morning, Tess and Anna are in the wrong bodies and time is running out – they have to find a way to switch back before Tess's wedding the following day.

Argentina
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista International

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Buena Vista Pictures

New Zealand
Rating: G

USA
Rating: PG (for mild thematic elements and some language)

TIMELINE

2002
October
5: USA – production begins

December
18: USA – production ends

2003
August
6: Canada, USA – theatrical release

September
25: Australia – theatrical release

October
2: Netherlands – theatrical release
10: Iceland – theatrical release
29: Belgium – theatrical release

November
11: New Zealand – theatrical release

December
11: Austria, Germany – theatrical release
19: UK – theatrical release
25: Sweden – theatrical release
26: Norway – theatrical release
31: France – theatrical release

2004
January
8: Argentina – theatrical release

POSTER TAGS

Get Your Freak On August 1st

Every teenager's nightmare...turning into her mother.

Freaky Friday - Ein voll verrückter Freitag - Austrian title

LINKS

REMAKE OF
Freaky Friday (1976)
Freaky Friday (1995)

SEE ALSO
Vice Versa (1988)

MAGAZINES

Hollywood Reporter vol.375 no.6 (10 Deptember 2002) p.27 (USA)
credits, production details

book into film, body swapping, chinese restaurants, fortune cookies, guitars, high schools, magic, remakes, teenagers, weddings, widows