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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
Turnabout (movies under other names, with variations. it's the one where a people swap places in someone else's body - mother/daughter, or husband/wife.
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and hundreds and hundreds more. Many, of course, were made under different titles, for some obscure reason.
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The reason might be simply to disassotiate from the book. You name it the same and people start comparing movie and book. Plus they will have expectations that a movie is a perfect visualization of the book. That is rarely happening and you cannot expect it to be. Sometimes movie doovers are named the same to specifically associate them together.
I always thought those body switching movies come from different books, and not from one book beeing recycled over and over again. That is a very good idea that works potentially better in film than in words, IMHO.