Playing a prostitute in `Taxi Driver', Jodie Foster became a star in 1976, so I suppose she was forced to do a bunch of commercially interesting children's films afterwards in order to restore the American routine: a child has to be childish. I believe, that's how this completely unnecessary movie arose. The plot synopsis implies a moral message: Mother and daughter suddenly change bodies on Friday 13th by wishing at the same time to become the other one.
I read that in the TV guide and prepared for a little sentimental comedy to tell me how equally hard school-work and housework are. Surprisingly, the moral aspect was there, but so badly presented that it won't make a single child think about what it has seen! Well, and without the message there is nothing left but a screenplay so jerky that it could have been written by a child but so uninspired that it must have been written by a third-class Hollwood writer; also an ashamingly bad actress called Barbara Harris, a boring, predictable plot and a sitcom-like camera unfortunately there are less funny moments than in a 20-minutes sitcom.
I'm a great fan of Jodie Foster and this film is her very worst.
I read that in the TV guide and prepared for a little sentimental comedy to tell me how equally hard school-work and housework are. Surprisingly, the moral aspect was there, but so badly presented that it won't make a single child think about what it has seen! Well, and without the message there is nothing left but a screenplay so jerky that it could have been written by a child but so uninspired that it must have been written by a third-class Hollwood writer; also an ashamingly bad actress called Barbara Harris, a boring, predictable plot and a sitcom-like camera unfortunately there are less funny moments than in a 20-minutes sitcom.
I'm a great fan of Jodie Foster and this film is her very worst.