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Summer Movies: The Great Body Switch

Published August 16, 2011 at 10:00 AM PDT

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<strong></strong>Dave (Jason Bateman) and Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) switch bodies in the 2011 comedy, <em>The Change Up</em>. — Dave (Jason Bateman) and Mitch (Ryan Reynolds) switch bodies in the 2011 comedy, *The Change Up*.

Next up in Talk of the Nation's Summer Movie Series is the identity switch.

From Freaky Friday to Heaven Can Wait, Hollywood has been body-switching for decades: men to women, women to men, parents to kids, young to old — it's all been done, and often redone. Murray Horwitz is back with some of the most memorable body switch movies.

Tell us: What's your favorite body switch movie? The basic ground rules: the film must depict the experience of living in a different body. Trading lives or professions (a la Trading Places) doesn't count.

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