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6 Section 2 Chicago Tribune. Tuesday, February 8: 1977 -r — ~ — ■ — — ■ — - —tempoMoviesBarbara Hams and Marc McClure in a scene from the Walt dsney comedy -Freaky Friday.'Freaky' rises above materialBy Gene SiskelVovl #eON THE MORNING of a Friday the Tklrtrfnlb.U ycar-cid Annabel Andrews and her SS-vcar-cM mother cay the very same sentence about each other at th* very same time: I wish 1 eodd trade places with her fcr just one day. Because this occurs In a Disney movie, the wishes become facts. Annabel and her mother do trade places. Tut Is. their brains and meter skills trado places.* 'Thaal means that la the First 10 minutes of Disney Productions' Freaky Friday” the spirit of a llPyearolil __ rirl In a SS-ycar-old bodydouses herself with makeup while trying to fend off carpet cana-3 and drapery bangers. Meanwhile back at the local grammar school, a 33-yenroitl nund inhabiting a lyrar-old body amazesp*®- her classmates by spout*“ Inn off accurate Informs-tion about the Korean Conflict while turning thumbs down on a banana split made with run rainn let cream.VVhal's special about Freaky Friday is not theTOIBUNEM1NFREV1EWCAa motfm Rka daoflhttr ★*’/» •TREAKV FRIDAY”DHesa ty Qwry Mm fn •*M.,It- ■■predictable Disney slapstick, but the caliber of act playing the lead roles. Broadway's Barbara Harris and •Taxi Driver but Jodie Foster costar as mother and daughter. They both do a serviceable job with mediocre material.Hams and Foster do manage to achieve some genuine emotion toward the end of the (Urn when both realize that being a mother or teen-age daughter isn't as easy as it appears. Both rvalue the unimportance of some of the demands each makes of the other. It's a trice, understated message.'In Search of Noah's Ark'TlfJS IS THE mode joo haven't been able to avoid bearing about on television Weil, you shocld always beware of Interna re TV ad campaigns for movies. Th* pictures usually are weak, and you end op paying for the ads through inflated box-ofrtce prices.In Search of Noah's Ark Is a hokey pseudo-documentary about ooc of the Bible’s great stories. Tba Elm marshals a slew of historical claims that portionsof Noah's ark now rest under glacial ice on Turkey's Ml. Ararat.Fine, you say, but do the filmmakers show us a photo of the 5.000-year-old boat? Well, not exactly. At the very end of the bcrtng 93-minute movie wo p.ct a blowup of a photograph tJut purports to show us a side shot of th*boat.The only problem is that I dcculrd to buy a copy of the book on which the film is bated. The very same photographic blow-up is contained in the book. But the caption reads, The Holy Ground Changing Center, a religious commune barer 1 in Frankston, Tex., says they teok this photo mth a telephoto lets on Ml. Ararat la net. They say il shows the ark cn a ledge with the planking on the ark s side dearly visible. Many serious ark researchers question whether the photo is genuine. Same critics contend tbe phcto has been retouched.Thai’s from the book oa which the film is based. But the film doesn’t mention anything about the photograph being held in disrepute. That makes In Search of Noah’s Ark for my money (P30 for the movie; 51.96 for the book) Jiat another religion ripoff.MOTION PICTU1IS lit. tim CfclrttfolertdMOTION riCTUtl* lit. Inn OiUof«Ufi4A great new COMEBY SWITCH!
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