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The Change-Up
Lifelong friends Dave and Mitch are envious of the other's life. Mitch thinks Dave has it all: a beautiful, loving family and a high-paying job at a prestigious law firm. But Dave thinks Mitch’s stress-free playboy life without obligation or consequence is the real dream come true. One fateful drunken night, they both admit that they wish they had the other’s life while peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes. The next morning, they wake up, hungover, in each other’s bodies! With time not on their side, Mitch and Dave comically struggle to avoid completely destroying each other’s lives before they can find a way to get their old ones back.
2011 · Directed by David Dobkin · 112 min · Comedy · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
Who says men can't change?
Plot
In Atlanta, Dave Lockwood is married with three children, while his best friend Mitch Planko is single and in his sexual prime. After getting drunk at a bar, Mitch and Dave urinate into a fountain, simultaneously wishing they had each other's lives.
The next morning, Mitch and Dave realize they have “switched bodies.” Returning to the park to wish for their lives back, they discover the fountain has been removed for restoration. Forced to wait until the parks department locates the fountain, Mitch and Dave have to pose as each other.
At Dave's law office, Mitch befriends Dave's associate Sabrina, but his lack of professionalism and legal knowledge sabotages an important merger with a Japanese firm. Dave arrives at Mitch's film shoot, discovering it is a "lorno" – "light" pornography.
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Crew
- Written by: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
- Cinematography: Eric Alan Edwards
- Edited by: Lee Haxall, Greg Hayden
- Music: John Debney
- Production design: Barry Robison
- Produced by: David Dobkin, Neal H. Moritz
Cast
- Jason Bateman as Dave Lockwood
- Ryan Reynolds as Mitch Planko
- Leslie Mann as Jamie Lockwood
- Olivia Wilde as Sabrina McArdle
- Alan Arkin as Mitch's Dad
- Gregory Itzin as Flemming Steel
- Mircea Monroe as Tatiana
- Sydney Rouviere as Cara Lockwood
- Matthew Cornwell as Parks Foreman
- Craig Bierko as Valtan
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Original Film, Big Kid Pictures
- Budget: $52,000,000
- Box office: $75,500,000
- Themes: jealousy, bachelor, fountain, sarcasm, wish, slacker, lawyer, co-workers relationship, twins, body-swap
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