One of the tried-and-true plot devices in all of storytelling is the idea of body switching. It's when two characters with opposite personalities switch bodies and then have to cope with what it's ...

The great-grandaddy of all body-swap yarns (not counting Frankenstein author Mary Shelley’s 1870 short story “Transformation” of course), Vice Versa dates to an 1882 novel by English author ...

Lindsay Lohan, Jamie Lee Curtis, and the cast of "Freakier Friday" dazzled at the film's world premiere and shared what it ...

- The Change-Up (2011) — Two friends switch bodies by making a wish and peeing in a fountain. John Murray is an actor living in New York and a co-host of Splitsider’s Low Standards.

Body-swaps are different from age-changing movies like Big and 13 Going on 30. No one is switching bodies so much as they are traversing space and time, or inhabiting a whole new physical appearance.

Jennifer Garner, who stars alongside Ed Helms in the new Netflix holiday movie, teases that she wouldn’t want to switch bodies with her kids: "I’ll stay here in my old lady body." ...

Only this time, instead of a mother and daughter switching bodies, Kathryn Newton’s Millie Kessler, a sweet but troubled high school girl still mourning the loss of her father a year previously ...

What starts out as a "Freaky Friday"-type body exchange becomes a rumination on time travel, cataclysmic fate, rural-urban dynamics and, of course, a love story in novelist-turned-anime director ...

Quickly, however, their routine mission gets thrown off-course when a 17-year-old Satanist named Gary spots them in the fast food restaurant where he works and decides to swap bodies with Sam.

And if they could switch bodies with their own children? "I’d want to switch places with Ed’s kids," says Garner. "I want to be that little one who has a crazy look in her eyes running around ...