One mother-daughter body-swap not enough for you? How about a whole family? That, basically, is the premise of Family Switch, a new holiday movie from Netflix in which an extremely well-off family, growing apart as the teens age, finds themselves in a classic switcheroo—on the most important day of everyone’s lives, of course.
There is a point at which suspension of disbelief becomes a challenge, and this trailer is way, way beyond that point. Why is the most important day of everyone’s life the same day? Why would you send your daughter to work in your body, regardless of what was happening? Make up an emergency! Deal with it! Deal with it by not going to work or school! And stop making jokes about how ancient and decrepit people are in their 40s, while you’re at it.
Anyway, here’s the summary:
Jess and Bill Walker are doing their best to keep their family connected as their children grow older, more independent, and more distant. When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the family to wake up to a full body switch, on the morning of the most important day of each of their lives, can the Walkers unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal and soccer tryout? Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers and Brady Noon star in this family comedy directed by McG and based on the book Bedtime For Mommy by Amy Krouse-Rosenthal.
Bedtime for Mommy, by the by, is a 32-page picture book for children in which a mother/daughter bedtime routine is reversed, and the little girl puts the mother to bed.
Family Switch is directed by McG (Terminator Salvation) from a script by Victoria Strouse (Finding Dory) and Adam Sztykiel (Black Adam). If your willing suspension of disbelief is more willing than mine, you can watch it on Netflix starting November 30th.
This post was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.
