Switch 1991

     Steve Brooks works at a New York advertising agency.  He is a man’s man and he’s macho.  He has three ex-girlfriends that are very unhappy about the way Steve treated them.  The three women invite him to a party and what he doesn’t know is that they plan to kill him.  He’s having a good time until they hold him underwater in the hot tub.  They think he’s dead but he comes up out of the water.  One of the women shoots him three times in the chest.  When he goes to the pearly gates, he is given a choice between heaven and hell.  If he wants to go to heaven, he will have to convince one woman to love him.  But, he will be sent back as a woman!!

     Steve has a hard time figuring out women’s clothing and he can’t walk very well in high heels.  He claims to be Steve’s sister Amanda.  She gets hired at his agency and she’s doing a better job than Steve ever did.  He’s having a rough time finding any female on earth that even likes him?  This film is interesting, different and in the style of Victor/Victoria, a woman playing a man playing a woman also directed by Blake Edwards.  3* (This movie is OK)

103 min, Comedy directed by Blake Edwards with Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Roberts, Perry King, Bruce Payne, Lysette Anthony, Victoria Mahoney, Basil Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Tia Leoni.

Note:  Imdb 5.7 out of 10, 33% critic 45% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 2 ½*.

Special Note:  Filmed in Santa Clarita, California and New York City, New York. This the first film role for Tia Leoni and she plays Dream Girl.