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Bizarre movie

posted 18 years ago by imdb020106
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I saw this movie when I was 7 years old, with my parents...I guess they couldn't find a babysitter. The movie was really wierd, really confusing..and seemed smarmy and repulsive. And over 40 years later..it still seems smarmy and repulsive.

Debbie Reynolds seems to have been directed to sound like a man by speaking as if she was wearing a beard. She's really bad at it. It was a strange trajectory from "Singin' In the Rain" to "Goodbye Charlie". I'm sure Eddie and Liz had something to do with it.

There are enough "straight" johns trolling back streets looking for transvestite hustlers..an attraction incomprehensible to many, including myself. Why not just forget the dress and put on a pair of tight jeans with boots..and maybe a cowboy hat to complete the ensemble?

It's just odd to watch two major stars like Curtis and Reynolds explore the same subject, in science fiction form.

I remember this film gave me the phobia that if I dove into water, I would come out a woman. And to this day, I still can't dive.

[–] ijonesiii 18 years ago

I also remember seeing this film as a kid, and yes, Reynolds wasn't particularly convincing as a man reincarnated as a woman and the film did seem to be full of a lot of implied sex jokes, but I thought it was really funny and to this day remains one of my guilty pleasures. Watching it as an adult, I realize it's no great piece of cinema, but it is still really funny and I can sit through it without falling asleep.

[–] whitepeak 17 years ago

try to watch the version with Ellen Barkin. You may like it a lot better.

[–] whitepeak 17 years ago

It's called "Switch" (1991). The story is not entirely the same... womanizer dies & comes back as blonde.....