Switch
Movie1991·US·1h 43min

Switch

Steve and Walter used to have a preference for blondes. Then Steve was murdered... and came back as one. Will being a woman make him a better man?

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Premiere
10
May1991
Box office
Gross$16M
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Switch (1991) is an American fantasy comedy directed by Blake Edwards that you can watch online on iFILM. The setup is mercilessly logical: Steve Brooks, a serial womanizer, gets murdered by a group of his former lovers and wakes up in a divine waiting room. Heaven sends him back to Earth with a deal — earn the genuine love of at least one woman and the slate is clean. The catch: he comes back as a woman. A striking blonde named Amanda, to be precise.

Ellen Barkin plays Amanda with surprising commitment — not a drag-show impression but a full character, a man rattled by being on the receiving end of everything he spent years dishing out. Jimmy Smits plays Steve's best friend, the only person who knows the truth and has no idea what to do with it. The film drops Amanda into the New York advertising world, surrounded by people who would have treated Steve very differently.

Blake Edwards, the director behind The Pink Panther series and Breakfast at Tiffany's, made this body-swap story years before the concept became a genre cliché. Stream Switch (1991) online on iFILM.

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