A generation ago, around the turn of the millennium, there was a boom in movies perfect for mothers and their teenage daughters to watch together: spiky-humored but warmhearted female-bonding comedies like Nancy Meyers’ The Parent Trap (1998), Mark Waters’ Mean Girls (2004), and above all, Freaky Friday (2003), also directed by Waters and starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as a feuding mother and daughter who find themselves trapped in one another’s bodies for the course of one chaotic day.

That 21 st -century Freaky Friday was the third adaptation of Mary Rodgers’ delightful 1972 novel of the same title: In addition to the 1976 Disney movie with Jodie Foster and Barbara Harris, there had been a 1995 made-for-TV version starring Shelley Long and a 13-year-old Gaby Hof

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