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Body-movin’: Top 5 place-swapping flicks

Posted on Tuesday, April 14, 2009
by Andrea Miller - Cineplex Entertainment

Zac Efron

You know the genre. Through mysterious, often quasi-magical circumstances, two people end up trading places, either literally inhabiting the other’s body or transcending time to appear as a younger version of themselves, learning valuable life lessons along the way in an often highly embarrassing fashion.

The latest film in the body-swapping canon is 17 Again, starring the nearly ubiquitous Zac Efron as a teenaged Matthew Perry (the resemblance is uncanny, um, right?) whose seriously unhappy life is given a jolt when he gets a second chance at adolescence after falling into a worm hole/river. Of course, looking like Efron would make high school a wholly different experience for most boys – and girls – but that’s another matter altogether.

Let’s take a look back at the place-trading movies that dared to cast aside science, and reality, in favour of funny.

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