Freaky Friday is a 2003 American fantasy-comedy teen film directed by Mark Waters, produced by Gunn Films and Andrew Gunn, written by Heather Hach and Leslie Dixon with music by Rolfe Kent and based on the novel of the same name by Mary Rodgers. It stars Lindsay Lohan as Anna Coleman and Jamie Lee Curtis as her mother Tess Coleman. In the film their souls are switched due to an enchanted Chinese fortune cookie. It also stars Mark Harmon, Harold Gould, and Chad Michael Murray. Freaky Friday was released in cinemas on August 6, 2003 by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Pictures. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and it earned $160.8 million on a $20 million budget. This is Disney's second remake of the original 1976 film starring Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster. Freaky Friday was released on DVD and VHS on December 16, 2003 by Walt Disney Home Video. A 1995 television remake was produced by ABC, which became a subsidiary of Disney the following year.