Don't say no to others without knowing the facts!

Lambert 2022-03-21 09:01:44

The story follows a single mother and her teenage daughter. Mother Tess is a mental health doctor. Her husband died unexpectedly. As a good wife and mother, Tess takes care of her young son and 15-year-old daughter Anna. But Anna, who was in adolescence, and her mother always had different views on things big and small. Tess didn't understand Anna's pursuit of music, clothes, and hairstyle, and Anna also didn't understand her mother's responsibilities as a psychiatrist and the upcoming stepfather in his own family. They are always arguing, not knowing how to understand each other and walk into each other's hearts.

Daughter Anna loves music but is despised by her mother and feels that her mother doesn't care about her. Mother Tess also felt that her daughter was not considerate of herself at all. It happens that Anna's concert date coincides with Tess's remarriage wedding rehearsal, and the conflict between the two intensifies.

In a Tang Dynasty restaurant, the two of them came up with an idea at the same time to make themselves become each other and let the other party see how they deal with it. And with the participation of a Chinese grandmother's fortune cookie, they really swapped - that is, the mother became the daughter, and the daughter became the mother.

The solution is for both to be selfless and considerate of the other. Helpless, they had no choice but to walk into each other's lives: the mother went to her daughter's school, and the daughter became a psychiatrist instead of her mother. They got to know each other from different perspectives, and let both mother and daughter learn about each other again.

The mother in the film falls in love with another man three years after her husband's death and wants to marry him. But she never went to ask her thoughtful and self-respecting daughter if she would. And the daughter's actual thought is: no one can replace my father. And when they became each other, the daughter, as the "future stepfather's fiancee", finally truly understood the stepfather's thoughts and the stepfather's love for herself and her mother... It was the stepfather who promised Anna to perform at the concert, which made her still playing her mother. Anna was deeply moved.

If it wasn't for this exchange, maybe the daughter would never know the stepfather's love. Although the mother in her daughter's body knew nothing about music, she still performed hard on the stage, which made Anna finally understand her mother. It turned out that her mother still cared about her and fulfilled her wish. At the final wedding, Anna expressed her thoughts - my dad is the best, but if it's you, there's room for you in our family.

The mother and daughter in the film are like the relationship between children and parents in most families in real life. Parents give their children everything they want, but they don't understand their children's hearts, so they give them in their own way. But the children are not happy either. What you give is not what I want, so we get along with each other with our own attitudes. When they switch identities, they really understand each other's lives

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Freaky Friday quotes

  • Harry: You go and ask her you old fart

    Grandpa: Boy youth is wasted on the young

  • Anna (in Tess's body): [Coming back from Anna's audition, Tess looks at Ryan and begins tearing up] Mom, what's wrong?

    Tess (in Anna's body): I need you to do something for me.

    Anna (in Tess's body): Sure, Mom, after, after what you just did for me. Anything.

    Tess (in Anna's body): It needs to happen now before all the toasts and speeches.

    Anna (in Tess's body): Okay.

    Tess (in Anna's body): Clearly, we're not switching back tonight. I need you to tell Ryan that you need to postpone the wedding.

    Anna (in Tess's body): [Shocked] What?

    Tess (in Anna's body): No, listen. I can see you're not ready for this and I can wait. I guess that I was just so happy, I wasn't thinking about what's best for you and Harry.

    Anna (in Tess's body): But, but, but, Mom...

    Tess (in Anna's body): - If he loves me like I think he does, he'll wait, too. He'll understand. He'll be very sweet and gracious about it. But, please...

    [Crying a little more]

    Tess (in Anna's body): ... just, please let him know that I love him and be as kind as you possibly can... for me.

    Anna (in Tess's body): [Understanding] Okay, Mom. I know exactly what to say.

    Tess (in Anna's body): I'll be along in a minute.

    [Anna - Tess's body - walks over to the head table, while, Tess - in Anna's body - stands back for a minute to let a few tears]

    Anna (in Tess's body): [to Ryan] Um, you should sit down.

    [Ryan sits down, where Anna - in Tess's body - picks up a glass and rings it to gain the attention of the whole party]

    Anna (in Tess's body): Uh, hi. Um, I, I guess I, I'm gonna start the toasts.

    [Tess, in Anna's body, looks confused]

    Anna (in Tess's body): So, 3 years ago, we had a really bad thing happen. We lost a Father and a Husband, and I didn't think we'd ever get over it. But then, this guy, next to me, came into the picture and everyone could see that I was happy again. I was singing in the shower again, not well, I might add...

    [Everyone laughs]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... But I was still worried about my kids, Anna and Harry, whether or not they would be able to accept a new man in their life. And now I know how Anna feels. And what she feels is that...

    [Anna's emotion begins to build]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... No one could ever take the place of her Dad...

    [Voice breaking, tears coming in]

    Anna (in Tess's body): ... Because he was a really great Dad. But somebody could be a part of a new family in its own kind of cool, new little unit and that, for someone as special as Ryan, that we would all make a little more room. Anna would really wanted her Mom to know that.

    [the room begins to shake in the style of an earthquake with Anna and Tess switching back to their own bodies]

    Anna: [Overjoyed to be back in her own body,] And I am so psyched to be here. I guess...

    [Walks down the steps, grabs a glass of water from a waiter]

    Anna: ... all I'm trying to say is, Ryan, welcome to our family.

    [Raising her glass of water]

    Anna: To the Bride and Groom.

    [Everyone applauds]

    Ryan: [In Tess's ear] What the Hell just happened?

    Tess: Trust me, you don't wanna know.

    [They kiss]