Disney’s third remake of Mary Rodgers’ novel “Freaky Friday” starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan is now out on home video and DVD.

The movie depicts the lives of a mother, Tess Coleman, played by Curtis, and her teenage daughter, Anna, played by Lohan, who are at constant odds with one another.

The newest version of “Freaky Friday” offers a modern perspective of the battling mother-daughter duo. Curtis’ character is a widow whose life has recently been overrun with the demands of her psychiatric practice and her impending second-marriage to her devouted boyfriend, Ryan, played by Mark Harmon.

This wasn’t the conflicted life that Jodie Foster’s mother’s had in the 1970s’ version.

Lohan’s character is a disgruntled teenager whose primary obsession is her rock band and the cute rock-obsessed boy at school she has a crush on, Jake, played by Chad Michael Murray. Her primary hates are her little brother and Ryan.

The two characters are constantly at odds, yelling down each other’s throats and generally disagreeing over any mundane subject.

When the two have a public disagreement in a Chinese restaurant, the owner of the restaurant takes it into her own hands to help them gain better perspectives of each other’s situation.

The mother-daughter duo wake up the morning after their public argument to discover that they have magically switched bodies and must spend their lives like that until they understand one another.

The movie then focuses on the two characters as they gradually begin to understand what life is really like for the other and loose their preconceived perceptions on parenthood and adolescence in their busy worlds.

The movie takes a bold step into the 21st century, leaving the previous versions of the movie in the dust, by building the picture of modern American life. The movie is laced with the modern rock that Anna loves so much: the White Stripes and even the odd “Hit me Baby, One More Time” cover.

Though I’m sure this movie holds invaluable lessons for families across the board, I think a bigger societal lesson lies in Curtis’ appearance in the movie.

“Freaky Friday” marks the first movie that Curtis appeared in after taking her public vow against plastic surgery and her now famous pose in her sports bra and underwear.

It may have been one small money-saving step for Curtis, but I think it was one giant step for Hollywood kind. Move aside the plastic-perfect mothers of Fox’s OC–Curtis and her middle-age spread are here.

Curtis’ look in the film is refreshing in a world of 40-somethings who look like 20-somethings and Paris Hilton.

Curtis actually looks like a mother in this film and not like her daughter’s best friend in the movie.

Though the film’s plot is based in fantasy, the characters and their appearances seemed firmly planted in reality.

Sure the problems in this film are resolved in less than two hours, but at least it isn’t a 30-minutes-or-less solution with Curtis in pearls and smiling her face off the entire time.

The film shows a typically modern family’s problems and the dilemmas of single-parenthood.