![]() The scenes get wilder as Annabel-as-mother fires the bigoted cleaning woman, confers with Annabel's teachers about her outrageous behavior, and calls the police to help locate the son/little brother she's misplaced. Rodgers mercifully ignores, this becomes a conventional situation comedy in which 13-year-old Annabel, whose mother has switched "bods" to teach her a lesson, tries unsuccessfully to cope with cooking, laundry, budgeting, and all that. I had on my mother's nightgown and a ring on my left hand." But once past the alarming Oedipal implications, which Ms. ![]() ![]() ![]() with my father sleeping in the other bed. Gregor Samsa's "Metamorphosis" to insect form is no more disconcerting than the opening of Freaky Friday: "When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother. ![]()
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