Blake Edwards's obssessive concern with cross-dressing and sexual role switching has hopefully been purged in SWITCH, an obvious, dim-witted rehash of GOODBYE CHARLIE, saved from total failure by Ellen Barkin's bright, energetic slapstick performance.
When obnoxious, sexist ad man Steve Brooks (Perry King) is murdered by three of his ex-girlfriends, led by rich, cynical Margo Brofman (JoBeth Williams), Brooks finds himself in purgatory, where God decides to return him to earth to find one female who likes him--only then he will be able to
enter Heaven. But, at the promptings of the Devil (Bruce Martyn Payne), Brooks is returned to earth in the form of a woman (...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
104 mins