Help! I'm a Boy (2002)

HELP I M A BOY In the Tradition of Freaky Friday & She s a ManEleven year old Emma doesn t have it easy. Her mother expects her to outperform everyone and her swim coach wants to make an Olympic swimmer out of her. After being harassed yet again by her schoolmate and enemy Mickey Emma wants nothing more than to become a different person. When she wakes up one morning she is shocked to learn that her wish has been fulfilled but not as she expected. Emma has turned into Mickey and Mickey has turned into Emma! What follows is a hilarious adventure of errors asMickey and Emma must deal with being each other while trying to reverse the spell.USA/Germany 2005 color comedy English Language Version NRSystem Requirements:Running Time 95 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 658769640632 Manufacturer No: VF6406 Product Description

Overcoming the Black Magic of gender education by bright wizardry

I saw this movie in the original German version, when my daughter Rosa was 8. Proudly she explained the plot to me, making sure she already was "knowing". > By accidental wizardry a boy and a girl change their bodies, but not their mind. The girls mother desperstedly wants her daughter to be trained for swimming championship while the boy comes from an artist's family, where his dreaming and fantasy are encoureged. They both find out, that they have only few hours left to change back to their original bodies (and life!)They manage to coordinate their personal abilities, overcome their prejudices and find the old hobo-wizard in charge for the key to turn the spell back. A fantastic comedy not to be recommended for rednecks and bible-belters because of its freshness.The movie is made with lots of love, respect on sense of humour. Reinhard Liebe, family-therapist, Vienna March 13, 2008

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