***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** This is such a wonderfully romantic movie. They don't sale it! So I waited for it to come on T.V and am now the proud owner of a very scrambled version that I watch over and over again. The film is about two girl that are 15: Terry and Karen. Terry is middle class to poor, she is stuck in that tomboy zone, even though she has grown into a beauty, her father passed away and now she lives with her grandfather-played by the great Cid Caesar-and her mom-Rhoda from Mary Tyler Moore-at a deli they own. Karen is rich, she has two stuch up friends, and they like to dress alike?? Her parents are very busy, but they have a good marriage. She has a little sister and an older brother who sort of wishes he wasn't so rich and could be some mysterious person in black sitting at a coffee house reading the Crucible. And so Karen and Terry are rivals. They both are secretly jealous of what eachother is about, and think the other one gets a 'free ride' through life. After years of pulling pranks on eachother, Terry accidentally goes too far. Instead her prank gets the whole school shut down. Of course the Principle knows who did it, and so he decided to expel them. Easier said than done. Karens parents think she shouldn't have been expelled because her prank wasn't the one that shut the school down; Terry's mother thinks that her daughter was just defending herself and can't afford to lose any school. So a probation officer is brought in and gives them two options: A Pea Farm, full of hard labor, OR: They swap families for a month and learn to see life through the other ones eyes. Well you can guess which one gets chosen. A lot goes one, Karen loses her so-called best friends because her status is demoted from technically being 'poor' now. Terry is now teased more so for being on the rich side of town and riding the 'rich' school bus. But the best part of this film is the relationship that surprisingly forms between Terry and Karen's older brother David. David besides being so handsome, and smart. He sees something about Terry, like her sense of humor and I'm guessing her natural beauty that he just can't resist. The chemistry between these two people is amazing. And you just know that they'll one day get married. Prom ensues, with the witch of the highschool pulling a prank on Terry, and finally, a freindship and complete understanding of eachother evolves. Who knew? I LOVE THIS FILM!!!
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