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 $115 million worldwide.
Plot
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.
Gigette Reyes as Loretta, one of the two competitors in the pickleball tournament
Santina Muha as Judy, the immigration interviewer
Additionally, X Mayo appears as Ms. Waldman, the principal at Harper and Lily's school. Chris Carlberg and Danny Rubin reprise their roles of Ethan and Scott, the drummer and bassist of Pink Slip. Lohan's brother Dakota also appears in the film as a surfer. Actress Jodie Foster was approached to cameo in the film, but was ultimately unable to participate.
In March 2025, it was announced that Amie Doherty would compose the film's score, after previously collaborating with Ganatra on The High Note (2020).[19] On July 11, 2025, a new version of the song "Take Me Away" by the fictional band Pink Slip was released by Hollywood Records as a single for Freakier Friday. A previous version of the song appeared in Freaky Friday.[20] The full soundtrack was released by Hollywood Records on August 1, 2025.[21]
Release
Freakier Friday premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on July 22, 2025, and was released theatrically in the United States on August 8.[22][23]
Reception
Box office
As of August27,2025[update], Freakier Friday has grossed $72.4 million in the United States and Canada, and $42.9 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $115.3 million.[4][5]
In the United States and Canada, Freakier Friday was released alongside Weapons and Sketch, and was projected to gross $27–30 million from 3,975 theaters in its opening weekend.[24][25] It earned $3.1 million from Wednesday and Thursday preview screenings.[26][27][28] The film ended up debuting to $28.6 million,[5] finishing second behind Weapons.[29]
Critical response
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 73% of 215 critics' reviews are positive.The website's consensus reads: "Freakier Friday doesn't reinvent the original's story so much as it swaps the formula around for a frothy good time, with Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan easily slipping back into roles that fit them like mixed-and-matched gloves."[30]Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 60 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.[31] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale, up from the 2003 film's “A-.”[3]
Maureen Lee Lenker of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A- and described it as "a heart-on-its-sleeve ode to strengthening and forging bonds, the power of deep and unconditional love, and the warmth and safety of one's chosen family, most especially when it's at its freakiest."[32]Time Out's Olly Richards gave the film three stars out of five and wrote, "There are almost endless holes you could pick in its logic and storytelling, but it gives you few reasons to want to. This Friday's freakier, but it's kind of… funner too."[33] Meanwhile, Stephanie Zacharek of Time said that the movie "appears to exist largely for one reason: to grift off the fondness many adults have for the original, even though the sequel has none of that picture’s breezy, observant charm."[34]
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