The Parent Trap Summary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Nancy Meyers, Charles Shyer
Genres: Comedy, Children's/Family
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The husband-and-wife team of Nancy_Meyers and Charles_Shyer, who scored with their 1991 remake of the 1950 Father of the Bride, returned for this updating of the 1961 comedy about twins who hope to bring their divorced parents back together. Sheyer and Meyers stayed close to the original screenplay by David_Swift, based on Erich Kastner's book -Das Doppelte Lottchen. At a summer camp in Maine, 11-year-old Hallie Parker (Lindsay_Lohan) meets Annie James (also Lindsay_Lohan). Despite a curious resemblance, Hallie develops an immediate dislike for Annie, and the feeling is mutual. However, the two eventually discover they are twin sisters separated not long after they were born. Their parents, Elizabeth (Natasha_Richardson) and Nick (Dennis_Quaid), had met on the Queen Elizabeth 2 and married on that same voyage. After a divorce, Nick brought up Hallie at his Napa Valley vineyard, while Annie lived with wedding-gown designer Elizabeth in London. Neither twin was aware she had a sister, until their summer-camp meeting. To learn more about their parents, they switch places and maintain the deception until Nick states he will remarry. The twins then try to engineer a renewed romance between Nick and Elizabeth, but Nick's annoying but attractive fiancee Meredith (Elaine_Hendrix) presents a major problem in reaching their happy-ending goal. Hayley_Mills portrayed the twins in the 1961 original and subsequent TV-movie sequels: In The Parent Trap II (1986), the twins are adults with their own romantic problems. In The Parent Trap III (1989), the twins compete for a widower (Barry_Bostwick), the father of triplets, and that same year, the twins also returned in Parent_Trap_Hawaiian_Honeymoon (1989). Bhob Stewart, Rovi
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