Saturday Night Movie - Your Name

This Japanese animation—the fourth highest-grossing film ever in its home country—finds two teens in a body-swapping Freaky Friday type situation. The boy, from Tokyo, and the girl, from a rural town, wake up as each other at random times, and when they do, they must navigate each others’ lives as smoothly as possible (though dating, surprisingly, becomes easier during the switch). This wondrous movie from writer/director Makoto Shinkai starts off as a humorous comedy of errors before it becomes an apocalyptic clock-stopper with much more than impressing the cute girl at stake. Beautifully animated (we’re talking Studio Ghibli standards here), Your Name captures that sensation of waking up from a dream you wish lasted longer, or misplacing a name that’s still warm on your tongue, but has just departed - Kristen Yoonsoo Kim