Freaky Friday
Reception

Freaky Friday (1976)

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6.3
5 platform(s) · 7 ratings 16,627 votes
7.3/10 515 votes Synced 2026-07-25
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Audience 6.5/10 20 votes Synced 2026-07-21
Critics 5.1/10 Synced 2026-07-21
Audience 5.7/10 Synced 2026-07-21
Critics 6.5/10 Synced 2026-07-21
6.1/10 311 votes Synced 2026-07-24

External reviews

Staff (Not Credited) · TV Guide Magazine 75.00/100.00

The film is filled with sight gags and features a wonderful performance by Harris.

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Staff (Not Credited) · Time Out London 60.00/100.00

This being a Disney comedy, nothing too drastic happens; and attendant adults can rest assured that, because Dad is so dithering and ineffectual, awkward questions about potentially incestuous relations, sadly, do not arise. Good performances struggle gamely to overcome the increasingly predictable plot.

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Roger Ebert · Chicago Sun-Times 63.00/100.00

The problems resulting from the switch of identities are fairly predictable, but fun: This is one of the better recent Disney productions.

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Richard Eder · The New York Times 50.00/100.00

Toward the end there are some amusing car-chase scenes. Elsewhere the humor is clotted by the feeling that the jokes are chasing the reactions, instead of the other way around.

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James Berardinelli · ReelViews 63.00/100.00

Freaky Friday is motion picture cotton candy - sweet while it lasts, easily disposed of, and insubstantial. It will please those who seek it out, and probably won't horrify or disgust anyone who ends up seeing it for other reasons (dragged along, bribed, or otherwise coerced). There are enough clever and/or funny moments to provoke laughter from even a scowling 13-year old boy who wants to be next door watching Terminator 3 for the third time.

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Staff (Not Credited) · Variety 50.00/100.00

Freaky Friday is certainly one of the most offbeat films Walt Disney Productions has ever made, but it isn't one of the best. A promising concept - quarreling mother and teenage daughter switch personalities for a day - has been bungled by a talky, repetitive screenplay and overbroad direction. Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster salvage some scenes through sheer behavioral charm.

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Dave Kehr · Chicago Reader 40.00/100.00

The situation—a mother and daughter switch personalities for a day—is rife with possibilities, but since this 1977 comedy is a Disney film, said possibilities are scrupulously squandered...Not so bad as Disney goes, but it's better left to the kiddies and other forgiving types.

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