After one prank goes too far, the two girls are isolated together for the remainder of camp as punishment. They begin to pull a series of pranks on each other. Shortly after the birth of their identical twin daughters, Annie and Hallie, they get divorced and each has sole custody of one girl Nick raises Hallie in Napa Valley, California and Elizabeth raises Annie in London, England.Īlmost twelve years later, in the summer of 1998, Nick and Elizabeth coincidentally send their daughters to the same summer camp in Maine, where they meet and take an immediate dislike to one another. In 1986, American winery owner Nicholas Parker and British wedding gown designer Elizabeth James get married over the course of a transatlantic crossing on the Queen Elizabeth 2. Good family oriented comedy worth a rental.This week the movie will be the movie “The Parent Trap (1998)” on August 11th. I'll even forgive the film makers for ripping off the stranded-in-the-lake scene from 'Meatballs.' The closing credit snapshots provide a sweet epilogue to tie up loose ends. Lohan skillfully contrasts the American/British accents and mannerisms of the two girls you know and believe which twin she is at any given moment. No split screens, backs of heads of fake-looking 'doubles' etc. The fx and editing to stand Lohan's two characters together is magnificently done it really looks like two actresses. The obvious chemistry of the parents (Randy Quaid and Natasha Richardson) is great, and begs a question which is never answered to satisfaction, 'Why did they split up in the first place?' Everything in the film symbolically shows that they were made for each other: even their respective maid and butler take a shine to each other. The evil stepmother-to-be is over-the-top evil (even called Cruella De Ville by one of the girls), and she's a character you love to hate. It's a Disney flick, so the comedy is family slapstick variety as you would expect.

Hayley Mills carried the dual roles of twins learning of each other's existence and concocting a plot to reunite their divorced parents splendidly in the '60's version, and Lindsay Lohan showed wonderful comedic talent at an early age in this delightful remake. This is one of those rare cases where a terrific movie is equaled by its remake.

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