July 22, 2025 (El Capitan Theatre)
August 8, 2025 (United States)
Freakier Friday is a 2025 American fantasy comedy film directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Jordan Weiss. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it is a sequel to Freaky Friday (2003), itself based on Mary Rodgers's 1972 novel, and the seventh overall film in the franchise. Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Rosalind Chao, Ryan Malgarini, Christina Vidal Mitchell, Haley Hudson, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Lucille Soong reprise their respective roles from the original film, with Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons in her feature film debut and Manny Jacinto joining the cast. It features Anna Coleman (Lohan) and Tess Coleman (Curtis) trying to regain their bodies after respectively switching with the former's daughter Harper (Butters) and soon-to-be stepdaughter Lily Reyes (Hammons) before Anna's wedding to Lily's father Eric (Jacinto).
Filming for Freakier Friday took place from June to August 2024. It premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on July 22, 2025, and was released theatrically by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on August 8. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for the performances of both Lohan and Curtis and has grossed $116 million worldwide.
Storyline
Twenty-two years after the the first film, a now adult Anna Coleman works as a music producer and is a single parent by choice, raising her teenage daughter Harper with the occasional help of her mother Tess. At school, Harper is constantly annoyed by her new classmate, British immigrant Lily Reyes due to her snobbish personality. When the two cause an incident at chemistry class, Anna is called to the principal's office, meets Lily's father Eric, and they fall in love. Six months later, they are engaged, and the soon-to-be stepsisters are dissatisfied with their predicament. Harper also worries that her mother will consider moving them to London as Lily wants to return there to attend a fashion academy in honor of her late mother.
During Anna's bachelorette party, Anna and Tess and later Harper and Lily have separate palm readings from the supposed psychic Madame Jen, who tells Harper and Lily a fortune about their fractured lives. An earthquake then occurs, which only the four feel. The next morning, they discover that they switched bodies; Anna with Harper, and Tess with Lily.
The experienced Anna and Tess advise Harper and Lily to pretend to be each other rather than telling anyone about the switch until they change back. Realizing their new identities could help them break their parents apart, Harper and Lily lie about Madame Jen giving them a fortune to delay the reverse. Anna and Tess go to school and spend time in detention for a food fight Harper and Lily caused at a bake sale, while Harper and Lily enjoy the advantages of being adults and come up with a sabotage plan to cancel the wedding.
At a photoshoot of Anna's client Ella, Harper and Lily help the young singer overcome her recent break-up. They learn about Anna's abandoned rock star dreams and find a love song, which they assume Anna wrote about her high school ex-boyfriend Jake Austin. They seek Jake, and Harper embarrasses herself when unsuccessfully trying seduce him in Anna's body to disrupt the relationship with Eric.
After escaping detention, Anna and Tess find Madame Jen, who reveals Harper and Lily's fortune but warns them that all the four of them need to "change their hearts" in order to change back. Meanwhile, Harper, as Anna, goes to an immigration interview with Eric, and finds out how much he knows about and loves her mother. Eric also says that he thinks it would be the best for their families to stay in Los Angeles, causing Harper to have second thoughts about their sabotage plan. Lily, however, remains intent. She invites Jake to the rehearsal dinner and makes a scene by criticizing the Colemans, leading to a big public argument. Eric decides he cannot continue this way, and calls off the wedding.
Following a heartfelt conversation with Tess about her homesickness and the loss of her mother, Lily starts to realize the error of her ways. As Tess, she tries to convince her father not to give up on Anna. At the same time, Anna, followed by Harper, is called to Ella's concert, learning that Ella invited her old band, the Pink Slip, so they could perform again. Though happy for the reunion, Anna tells Harper she never regretted abandoning her musician goals because Harper is the best decision she ever made, and the love song was actually written about her. Mother and daughter reconnect as they play the song together on stage. Tess and Lily arrive in time to see it, with Lily happily stating she wants to be a part of this family. Having a change of heart, they all return to their original bodies. Eric arrives to the concert, and he and Anna rekindle their relationship.
The next day, the wedding is held, and all relatives celebrate Anna and Eric's happiness. Some time later, the family attends the launch event of Tess's latest book. Tess is shocked to learn that Lily, while she was in Tess's body, made a rather unfavorable picture of her for the book's cover using lip plumper.
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