Freaky Friday 2: Still in Mom's Skin, directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Jordan Weiss, lands on Disney+ on May 8, 2026. This sequel brings back Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan to revisit the body-swap premise that defined the 2003 film. After its cinematic release in 2025, the feature now finds a new streaming window, with a story stretched across multiple generations of the same family.
Freaky Friday 2: Still in My Mom's Skin Film | 2025
In theaters: August 6, 2025
Streaming on Disney+ on May 8, 2026
Comedy | Length: 1h51
Directed by Nisha Ganatra | Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters
Original title: Freakier Friday
Country: United States
The film picks up several years after the events of the first installment. Anna is now a mother and must navigate a blended family in formation, between her daughter Harper and the arrival of a future stepdaughter. Tess and Anna discover that the strange phenomenon that once disrupted their lives can recur, this time within a wider family dynamic. The body swap device thus no longer serves solely the mother-daughter comedy: it expands to cover tensions, transmissions, and the new balances between generations.
This sequel banks on the reunion of its core duo while also expanding the world of the original film. Julia Butters, Manny Jacinto, Sophia Hammons, and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan join the cast, while several faces from the 2003 feature return, including Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray, Christina Vidal, Rosalind Chao, Lucille Soong, and Stephen Tobolowsky. The project thus leans into nostalgic continuity, rather than simply rehashing the first movie.
The pull of this second episode also lies in its production context. Jamie Lee Curtis revived the idea of a sequel with Disney in 2022, which ultimately rekindled the franchise more than twenty years after the original hit from Mark Waters. Released in 2003, Freaky Friday drew 681,487 cinema-goers in France and grossed nearly $161 million worldwide, a figure that helps explain the lasting place of the Curtis–Lohan duo in the memory of 2000s family comedies.
Nisha Ganatra, best known for Late Night and Welcome to Chippendales, steps in to direct. The film preserves the original’s fantastical premise while shifting it onto a blended family, introducing conflicts around parenting roles, adolescence, and multi-generational cohabitation. Manny Jacinto, recently seen in Star Wars: The Acolyte, is among the newcomers joining this pivot.
The film also extends a musical, pop heritage already linked to the first installment. The return of the band Pink Slip, brought to the screen by Lindsay Lohan and Christina Vidal, is among the elements that reconnect this sequel to the universe of the 2003 film. This new Disney+ airing thus places Freaky Friday 2 : Encore dans la peau de ma mère within a family, domestic setting that aligns with its positioning as a Disney comedy built around identity chaos, misunderstandings, and transmission.
Our opinion on Freaky Friday 2: Still in My Mother's Shoes
A body swap, a Camaro, and a family curse in the air
Twenty years later, Freaky Friday is back, and it's a bit like finding your old Converse sneakers at the back of the closet: a little worn, but still iconic. Lindsay Lohan reprises her cult role as Anna, Jamie Lee Curtis delivers punchlines in her shrink's suit, and boom! The mother-daughter duo is back in action... version 2025.
Gone is the rebellious teenager, Anna is now the (completely overwhelmed) mother of Harper, played by Julia Butters(The Fabelmans), a mini-tornado who loves surfing and is allergic to authority. Between her career as a pop star manager, played by Maitreyi Ramakrishnan (aka Devi in the Netflix series My First Times), and her unstable family life, Anna tries to stay on track. But everything goes freestyle the day she is summoned to the principal's office and meets Eric, akaManny Jacinto (Star Wars: The Acolyte), the (very cute) father of a stylish and sharp-tongued new student, Lily, a typical example of the new generation of high school bullies. It's love at first sight for the single parents, with plans for a quickie wedding... and major tension among the teenagers.
Then, when Madame Jen, a multi-talented psychic (life coach, barista, and fortune teller on her lunch break), arrives, the situation takes a mystical turn. One divination session, one incantation out of nowhere, and one earthquake later, and you get... an intergenerational family curse (V2): Harper wakes up in Anna's body and Lily in Tess's, the slightly overbearing grandmother.
At first, it's a little hard to figure out who's whose body and whose role has been reversed, but eventually the mechanics kick in, and the joyful chaos becomes enjoyable.
While some try to find a solution, others hatch a plan to ruin the wedding. Even if it means flirting with Jake, Anna's ex— Chad Michael Murray, true to form with his motorcycle, brooding gaze, and Chevrolet Camaro that smacks of a 2000s revival. The irony? Jake has a thing for women... of a certain age.
Each pretends to be the other, making a series of blunders, revelations, and hair mishaps, until everything—or almost everything—is back to normal.
Freaky Friday 2 doesn't claim to revolutionize the genre, but it ticks all the boxes of a feel-good chick flick: a pop palette, a sweet soundtrack, teenagers on the verge of an identity crisis, and a trio of actresses (Lohan, Curtis, and Butters) who are uninhibited and frankly endearing. The film lightly explores the dynamics of blended families, the roles we give ourselves (and those we forget to play), and reminds us that sometimes you have to walk in someone else's shoes to truly understand them.
Yes, it's a bit crazy. Yes,the humor is very American (read: sometimes a little heavy-handed). But it's hard to resist this tender and kitschy whirlwind, somewhere between fantasy comedy and gentle generational satire.
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