Fantastic!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

To this day the opening song for the movie still can reduce me to tears of happiness. This movie is part of a collection of films Disney Treasures enough to remake multiple times (2 so far) yet is too ashamed to widely rerelease for it shows it's age... which is so much of its charm. Disney treats this like it's something to be embarrassed about... something that wouldn't be cool enough for today's kids.... That's one of the major tradgedys of modern Disney. The story follows a Tomboy who switches places with her mother for a day and the two are forced into better understanding each other by experiencing things through the other eyes. This in turn is treated with light hearted comedy and there are some real laugh out loud moments as well as some heart warming moments. By the end of it the two get back into there right bodies and have both learned something from the experience and grown.

This has got to be a top pick for original ideas ever put on film! The movie is very cute - quite comical - and very unique in film (or book) concepts.I've always wanted to do something like this in my life: trade places with someone - even my own mom!! What a great way to find out what the other is really going through everyday of their life. The film also shows as path to self-discovery in a way that is different.The self-discovery aspect of the movie is not quite obvious to some viewers - but it is there. What I mean is, if you really could trade places/bodies with someone like depicted in the film and you find out what the other is going through you will also start to question your own actions and beliefs before the body trade took place (self-discovery)! Example: "Ah now I understand what my mom was saying about this and I acted this way about it - now I have discovered a new way of viewing the situation because I understand my mom's point of view now that I have to be her!" The film also shows how sometimes we think we want to be so-n-so and if you live their life you may not want to be that person at all! Learn to at least like who you are and change what you don't like about yourself instead of wishing you could be someone else.Yes there is actually some pretty good life lessons in this film if you pay close attention to it - while enjoying the comedy in it! 8.5/10

I don't think it really matters if you see the Jamie Lee Curtis/Lindsay Lohan remake before this, but this original from Disney did pretty much start the body-swap concept. Basically Annabel Andrews (young Golden Globe nominated Jodie Foster) feels hassled by her mother, and her mother Ellen (Family Plot's Golden Globe nominated Barbara Harris) is annoyed with her daughter, they both feel like each other live an easy life. One Friday both wish they could be each other just for one day, so Annabel goes into the body Ellen, and vice versa. For a little while there are a few good points to having each other's bodies, but it soon becomes apparent that the lives they thought were easy actually aren't. In the end, both come to a point where they have to wish themselves back to their own bodies, and it does happen, but both bodies swap places, so Annabel is in the car, and Ellen on eater skis. Also starring John Astin as William Waring Andrews, Patsy Kelly as maid Mrs. Schmauss, Dick Van Patten as Harold Jennings, Vicki Schreck as Virginia and Sorrell Booke as Principal Charles Dilk. Young Foster proves herself a growing (literally) talent, and Harris is good at being youthful, there are some giggles to be had, but I preferred the remake really showing comedic complexities of each other's lives, but you may as well see it for Foster and Harris. It was nominated the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "I'd Like to Be You for a Day". Okay!

Fluffy Disney comedy from the '70s has a pubescent JODIE FOSTER and mom BARBARA HARRIS wishing they could trade places--so they do, for a day, a wildly slapstick day that is totally absurd but hits the funny bone on more than one occasion. Jodie is the sloppy daughter and Harris the fussy housewife who finds fault with her daughter's every move.Mary Rodgers wrote the screenplay from her novel and Gary Nelson directed, but it has no more substance than a half-hour situation comedy stretched to the limits. Kids are the primary target audience, but adults will find the foolishness a bit forced and too much at times.In brief roles as soccer coaches, RUTH BUZZI and KAYE BALLARD do their broad comedy routines with finesse. The final chase on a wild auto ride and a water ski competition gone wild gives the film a good lift, but the script is nothing special and the situations are only funny enough to warrant an amused chuckle or two.Summing up: Lacks the wit and charm of a first-rate comedy, but gets by on the lead performances. The good premise must have looked better on paper than it does when executed on film.