Switch

1991

Action / Comedy / Fantasy

25
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 43% · 23 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.8/10 10 11190 11.2K

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Plot summary

Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.

Director

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Blake Edwards

Top cast

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Perry King as Steve Brooks
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Lysette Anthony as Liz
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932.38 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 7
1.63 GB
1904*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by jaynedell1 7 / 10

I liked it

Reviewed by rivertam26 7 / 10

classic

Switch is just one of those movies you just have to love.Touching on offensive subject matter and being socially inappropriate by today's censored standards it tells the story of a womanizer named Steve who is murdered by 3 of his ex lovers for being a male chauvinistic pig. He crosses over into a sort of limbo and being thats he's been so bad to the opposite sex is sent back to earth to find one female who truly loves him. He than can move on to heaven but if he can't will go straight to hell. The woman he becomes is played by a young Ellen Barkin in her sexual prime and comic glory.Creative laughs ensue as he deals with homosexuality, struggles of sexism in the workplace and world, repercussions of his past actions from women and advances from all kinds of men including his best friend played charmingly by the than hunky Jimmy Smits. The movie is smart funny and wholly original in its exploration of its premise and even raunchy and envelop pushing by todays standards. Although not a perfect film there are some pacing issues and questionable directorial approaches on how he approaches the material times. Switch is still a great movie as timely as ever showing us just how little we've progressed in the age old war between the sexes not to say their hasn't been a lot of progress but we still have a ways to go.
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