Be careful what you wish for

Freaky Friday

(1976)

DVR'd this because I liked the 2003 remake so much, but this--though there's nothing wrong with the performances by Jodie Foster (this was the same year as Taxi Driver) and Barbara Harris--is mostly just mechanical Disney pap, never funny, rarely amusing, always obvious, often insufferable.

I did not know: screenplay, from her own novel, is by Mary Rodgers, daughter of Richard.