How Do You Change Your Parents? (2003): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2003, How Do You Change Your Parents? is a comedy and tv movie film directed by Thomas Louis Pröve, running about 92 minutes.

What it’s about. Lydia and Vincent Lufft adopted the now 10-year-old Marie, so Vincent has better career prospects at the very child-friendly Henderson Games. But Marie forges with her friend Nick a plan: they want to fake a kidnapping to get away from the adoptive parents. To find the alleged abducted Marie Max Hoch, expert of a security company, consulted. Max himself does not want to have children unlike his girlfriend. He soon finds out that the abduction can only be faked. However, when Heinz Michelin, a friend of the family who wants to pay Marie's debt back with the reward, urges to help with the kidnapping, he brings with him two real hijackers. Max brings Marie to his unsuspecting girlfriend Karo to protect her. In the meantime, Max is himself suspected by the police to have kidnapped Marie. Only with a trap can he prove his innocence.

Who’s in it. How Do You Change Your Parents? stars Tim Bergmann as Max Hoch, Sonja Kirchberger as Lydia Lufft, Stacy Keach as Richard Hendersen and Helmut Zierl as Heinz Michlin, among others.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch How Do You Change Your Parents? page.

If you liked it. Fans of How Do You Change Your Parents? tend to enjoy Forrest Gump, Parasite, Life Is Beautiful and Fight Club.