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Kate Lally

'I rewatched Freaky Friday as an adult and it creeped me out'

There are some films from the 00s that hold icon status in my mind, and Freaky Friday is one of them.

Starring Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis, the film is a comedy classic with some hilarious lines and a great soundtrack. I hadn't revisited it in years, but when I noticed it was on Disney Plus, I quickly settled in with some popcorn to have another watch.

For those who haven't seen it, the film follows Tess Coleman (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (Lindsay Lohan), and the pair could not be more different.

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They keep clashing and cannot see things from the other's perspective. So, obviously, after opening cryptic fortune cookies at a Chinese restaurant, they wake up having somehow switched bodies.

Try as they might, they can't switch back, so they're forced to live as the other person for the day. This is made even worse by the fact Tess is about to remarry and 15-year-old Anna is, as you'd imagine, not keen on walking down the aisle.

When I started the film as an adult, I was flooded with nostalgia. As soon as the adorable photo montage of the Coleman family began, I decided I had made an excellent decision to watch a great movie.

Some of the jokes that probably went over my head as a child also hit differently as an adult, so it was just as enjoyable to watch but in a different way.

Except, that is, for the really inappropriate parts that I had never noticed before.

Anna's love interest Jake, played by Chad Michael Murray, initially falls for her mother. Okay, it's Anna in Tess' body, but Jake doesn't know that. He even goes as far as to crash her rehearsal dinner on the eve of her wedding.

And when Anna kisses him, he says: "You're beautiful, but you're not her". This is all within a couple of hours of meeting Tess, by the way.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg where creepiness is concerned. Anna is 15 years old, and Jake is a member of staff at her school. An actual employee at her place of education.

While his age is not revealed in the film, you'd also imagine this means he is way too old for her, even if it wasn't highly inappropriate enough that he is on the same pay roll as her teachers.

So when the film came to its romantic comedy ending, with Tess having just married new husband Ryan, and Anna and Jake sharing a dance and a kiss, it just hit differently.

I still rate the movie, but why couldn't they have just put Jake in the same year as Anna in high school?

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