Wish Upon a Star

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Wish Upon a Star

PG,

1996,

1h 30m,

Comedy/

Drama

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After a brainy tomboy's (Danielle Harris) wish to trade places with her pretty, popular sister (Katherine Heigl), it comes true.

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Betsy Bozdech

DVDJournal.com

Jan 14, 2022

2.5/4

All in all, you could definitely do worse in picking a movie for the "tween" set (hear that, Mary Kate and Ashley?).

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Tracy Moore

Common Sense Media

Apr 22, 2014

2/5

Romp about trading places has stereotypes, sensuality.

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Caffeinated Clint

Moviehole

Mar 11, 2005

3/5

Heigl has the makings of a "Star"

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Audrey Rock-Richardson

Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah)

Jul 26, 2002

1/5

Harmless enough, but so condescendingly saccharine, you might gag on it.

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Janet Branagan

Apollo Guide

Jul 24, 2001

68/100

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Albus R

Feb 16, 2019

Another Freaky Friday switch places movie. What works: It is interesting to see where Heigl comes from... the first time I can recall seeing her was in Knocked Up, and she is a decent teen actress as well as a cutie. The younger sister does a decent job too... Neither of them are going to win an Oscar, but they are both competent. I also like that this is a film about women and their troubles, but not in a reverse-sexism stick a woman in a male role annoying sort of way. What doesn't: It is pretty cheesy. The parents are horrible, and not in a particularly funny way. Alot of the running gags fall flat, like the door constantly being marked up. Also, the thing that make switch movies funny is juxaposing wildy different personalities, like mom and daughter, or Jeff Spicoli and Hitler or something. Here are two teenage girls that like the same boy, are in the same class, etc. It is hard to come up with as many visceral laughs that way.

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Synopsis

After a brainy tomboy's (Danielle Harris) wish to trade places with her pretty, popular sister (Katherine Heigl), it comes true.

Director: Blair Treu
Producer: David C. Anderson, Don Schain
Screenwriter: Jessica Barondes
Production Co: Leucadia Film Corporation
Rating: PG
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 1996, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 20, 2018
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Stereo

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