![]() Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and Annie James, eleven-year-old twin sisters who were separated after birth.Photos during the credits show Nick and Elizabeth getting remarried aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, with Annie and Hallie as bridesmaids, and Martin proposing to Chessy. They kiss, being watched by the girls who exclaim, "We actually did it." Nick expresses his previous mistake of not going after Elizabeth when she left him the first time. Elizabeth and Annie later board a flight for London, but when they arrive home, they find Nick and Hallie waiting for them (having taken a faster flight on the Concorde). Nick, finally seeing Meredith for who she truly is, chooses the girls over her, breaks off the engagement and calls off the wedding, much to Meredith's dismay.īack in Napa Valley, Nick shows Elizabeth his wine collection including the bottle from their wedding they both realise they still have feelings for one another but decide it is better to go their separate ways. ![]() Over the course of the trip, Hallie and Annie play a number of harmless tricks on Meredith who becomes enraged and demands Nick chooses between her and them. Elizabeth tricks Meredith into taking her place on the camping trip at the last minute, much to the girls' dismay. ![]() The twins resort to a last-ditch effort by demanding a three-day family camping trip, refusing to reveal which twin is which until after they return. Hallie and Annie recreate the night their parents met by renting out a yacht for an evening, but ultimately fail to rekindle Nick and Elizabeth's relationship. Meanwhile, Chessy and Martin meet and grow romantically attracted to each other. Nick sees Elizabeth for the first time in years, and they both learn they have been tricked by their daughters into meeting again, as well as Nick discovering he's had Annie in his care since the end of camp. On the same weekend, "Hallie", Nick, and Meredith travel to the same hotel to discuss wedding plans. "Annie" tells Elizabeth that Nick wants to meet her in San Francisco in order to switch the girls back and the two of them, along with Martin, travel to do so. Meanwhile, Chessy grows suspicious of "Hallie's" odd behaviour, and "Hallie" confesses she is really Annie, but they do not tell Nick. "Annie" sneaks out to call her sister from a phone booth but is discovered by Charles, who persuades her to reveal her identity to Elizabeth. ![]() Upon arriving in Napa Valley, "Hallie" learns Nick has a new girlfriend Meredith ( Elaine Hendrix), a child-hating gold digger, to whom he intends to propose. Meanwhile, Annie imitates Hallie's American accent and flies to Napa Valley to meet their father, Hallie's nanny Chessy, and the family dog Sammy. Hallie imitates Annie's British accent and flies to London to meet their mother, maternal grandfather Charles, and the James' butler Martin. One day they discover they are twin sisters and hatch a plan: to switch places in order to meet the parent they have never met and eventually reunite them. They begin to pull a series of pranks on each other and after one prank goes too far, the two girls are isolated together as punishment until camp is over. It received positive reviews from critics, with Lohan's performance in particular earning high praise.Īlmost twelve years later in the summer of 1998, Nick and Elizabeth coincidentally send their daughters to the same summer camp, where they meet and take an immediate dislike to one another. The Parent Trap was released on Jand was a box-office success, grossing $92.1 million against a $15 million budget. Swift is credited along with Meyers and Shyer as co-writers of the 1998 version. The story is comparable to that of the 1936 Deanna Durbin film Three Smart Girls. David Swift wrote the screenplay for the original 1961 film based on Lottie and Lisa. ![]() It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner's 1949 German novel Lottie and Lisa ( Das doppelte Lottchen).ĭennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson star as a divorced couple who separated shortly after their identical twin daughters' birth Lindsay Lohan stars (in her film debut) as both twins, Hallie Parker and Annie James, who are fortuitously reunited at summer camp after being separated at birth. The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. ![]()
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