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“Freaky Friday”

The movie that I chose to review was titled “Freaky Friday.” It stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a mother and daughter who switch bodies for a day. In this film, Tess Coleman (played by Jamie Lee Curtis) is a widowed psychiatrist juggling her job and family while planning her second marriage. Anna Coleman (played by Lindsay Lohan), who disapproves of her mother’s second marriage plans, is of no help to her mother at all during her stressful situations. Anna is a rebellious rocker who plays guitar in a garage band and would rather flirt with older boys than listen to her uptight mother.
One night, while the warring mother and daughter are at a Chinese restaurant, their fighting is overheard by an elderly …show more content…

Tess is a very busy woman. She is always on the go for her job and carries a mess of handheld devices (including cell phones, pagers, PDIs, etc.) so that she can be reached very easily when she is not working. Tess is also the head of the household and is in charge of making sure that the basic physiological needs of her two children are met.
The family relationships in the movie that are obvious to the viewer include the bonding between mother and daughter and the idea of a single parent household. Through watching the movie, one can see that the bonding between Tess and Anna has changed from the beginning to the end. In the beginning of the movie, Anna and Tess are constantly arguing and not getting along. Anna does not like her mother bossing her around and definitely does not like the idea of her mother getting remarried. Tess, on the other hand, is very stressed out by her job and the planning of her second marriage, so she takes out all of her anger and stress on her daughter. This anger between the mother and daughter in the movie leads one to believe that there has been little interaction between the two early in life, which is probably due to the divorce and Tess’s constant working. According to Greenspan, high divorce rates and parents taking on more than one job results in children having continuous access to fewer and fewer adults. This idea of very little

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