The Parent Trap (Special Edition) (DVD)

The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner s 1949 German novel Lisa and Lottie (Das doppelte Lottchen).

Dennis 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. David Swift wrote the screenplay for the original 1961 film based on Lottie and Lisa. The story is comparable to that of the 1936 film Three Smart Girls. Swift is credited along with Meyers and Shyer as co-writers of the 1998 version.

The Parent Trap was theatrically released in the United States on July 29, 1998 and was a box-office hit, grossing $92.1 million against a $15 million budget. It received positive reviews from critics, with Lohan s performance in particular earning high praise.

Plot

In 1986, Nick Parker and Elizabeth James meet on the Queen Elizabeth 2, fall in love and get married. Soon, they give birth to twins named Hallie and Annie. Shortly after the twins birth, Nick and Elizabeth divorce with Nick being given custody over Hallie and raising her in California where he owns his own vineyard. Meanwhile, Elizabeth raises Annie in London where she works as a wedding gown designer.

11 years and 9 months later in the year 1998, the twins are coincidentally sent to the same summer camp where they form an intense rivalry. When Hallie and her friends perform a dangerous prank on Annie s cabin, Hallie and Annie are sent to the isolation cabin where they begin to bond over some of their common interests. When they realize each has a divorced parent, they show one another a photograph of the parents with whom they have never met and discover they are twins who were separated at birth. They decide to switch places to get their parents to meet again and get back together; each girl trains the other to be like her.

In London, Hallie happily meets Elizabeth, the family butler Martin and her maternal grandfather. She learns that Elizabeth and Nick met on a cruise line and fell in love. Meanwhile, in California, Annie meets Nick and their family nanny, Chessy. Much to her dismay, she learns that Nick has fallen in love with a young woman named Meredith Blake who only has an interest in Nick s fortune. Annie phones Hallie and attempts to persuade her to bring their mother to California to try and break up Nick and Meredith but Hallie refuses.

Chessy, meanwhile, has noticed that Hallie has changed a lot; Annie reveals her identity, but Chessy keeps this a secret. Nick informs Annie that he is marrying Meredith, much to Annie s dismay. In a phone conversation, Annie informs Hallie of the upcoming wedding between Nick and Meredith. However, Hallie is discovered by her grandfather, who forces her to tell her mother that she is in fact Hallie, not Annie. Elizabeth and Hallie decide that they need to travel to California to agree on joint custody of the twins between each parent.

Annie and Hallie both arrange with Martin and Chessy for a meeting between Nick and Elizabeth at the Stafford Hotel in California, although only Elizabeth is aware of this. Elizabeth and Nick are reunited and Nick happily realizes that he has had Annie with him since the camp. Elizabeth also meets Meredith and learns that she and Nick will be getting married. Annie and Hallie attempt to recreate the night where their parents met by arranging dinner on a yacht. Nick and Elizabeth agree that Hallie will go to London over Christmas and Annie will spend Easter in California, but decide against resuming their relationship, with Elizabeth planning to fly back to London with Annie the next day. However, the two twins refuse to reveal which one is which unless the four of them go on a camping trip together. Elizabeth insists that Meredith go in her place, wanting her to get to know the girls before she marries Nick.

The girls play a series of pranks on Meredith, including putting a lizard on her head and filling her insect repellant with sugar and water. When the girls place her mattress on a lake, Meredith is furious and vows to get rid of them, demanding that Nick chooses between her and them. Finally seeing Meredith s true nature, Nick chooses the girls over her, causing dismayed Meredith to break off the engagement and call off the wedding. On returning home, Nick is somewhat relieved to be free of Meredith. He shows Elizabeth his wine collection which includes wine they drank at their wedding. The two realize they are still in love, but decide to go their separate ways with the twin they have custody of.

Elizabeth and Annie arrive back in London. They are stunned to find Nick and Hallie, who flew to London via Concorde. Nick reveals he feels bad about not going after Elizabeth the first time. The two finally kiss, signifying their intention to resume their marriage. The end credits show photographs from their wedding which also takes place on the QE2 with Hallie and Annie as bridesmaids and Chessy and Martin getting engaged.

Cast and characters

• Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and Annie James, eleven-year-old twin sisters who were separated after birth. Following their parents divorce, they were raised separately with no knowledge of each other s existence — until they meet at summer camp by chance. Erin Mackey was Lohan s acting double for the scenes where the twins appear together.
• Dennis Quaid as Nicholas Nick Parker, Annie and Hallie s father, a wealthy American vineyard owner.
• Natasha Richardson as Elizabeth Liz James, Annie and Hallie s mother, a famous British wedding gown designer.
• Elaine Hendrix as Meredith Blake, a 26-year-old publicist who is planning to marry Nick for his money.
• Lisa Ann Walter as Chessy, Nick s housekeeper and Hallie s nanny. She has long considered herself rather awkward and thus not overly desirable to eligible bachelors, but then she meets Martin, and the two are mutually smitten. She also discovers that Hallie is actually Annie after noticing her strange behavior.
• Simon Kunz as Martin, the James family s butler, who falls in love with Chessy.
• Polly Holliday as Marva Kulp Sr., the owner and director of Camp Walden.
• Maggie Wheeler as Marva Kulp Jr., Marva Sr. s daughter and assistant.
• Ronnie Stevens as Charles James, Elizabeth s wealthy father and Annie and Hallie s maternal grandfather. After he catches Hallie on the phone with Annie, she tells him about switching places.
• Joanna Barnes as Vicki Blake, Meredith s mother.
• Hallie Meyers-Shyer as Lindsay
• J. Patrick McCormack as Les Blake, Meredith s father.

Kat Graham played Jackie, a friend of Annie at Camp Walden. Vendela Kirsebom appears as a model during a photoshoot sequence at Elizabeth James studio. Meyers and Shyer s daughters Hallie Meyers-Shyer and Annie Meyers-Shyer make appearances in the film, credited as Lindsay and Towel Girl, respectively. Lohan s brother Michael (credited as Lost Boy At Camp) plays a boy at Camp Walden who did not realize he was going to an all-girls camp. Lohan s mother, Dina, and other siblings Aliana and Cody, all appear in uncredited cameos at the airport in London. The film s cinematographer Dean Cundey appears in an uncredited cameo as the captain of the Queen Elizabeth 2, who marries Nick and Elizabeth at the beginning of the film. Jeannette Charles portrayed Queen Elizabeth II in a deleted scene in which she and Hallie meet.

Production

Casting

More than 1,500 young actresses submitted audition tapes for the dual roles of Hallie and Annie. Director Nancy Meyers was looking for a little Diane Keaton to play the parts. Before Lohan was cast in the roles, actresses Scarlett Johansson, Mara Wilson, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Jena Malone all either auditioned or were considered for the roles, with Malone turning the roles down multiple times.

Filming

Principal photography started on July 15, 1997, in London, United Kingdom, and continued in Napa Valley AVA, San Francisco, Lake Arrowhead, and Los Angeles, California to December 17, 1997. Camp Walden was filmed on location at Camp Seely in Crestline, California. Parker Knoll, the vineyard and residence of the Parker family in the film, was shot on location in Rutherford, California at Staglin Family Vineyard. The exterior of the fictional Stafford Hotel was shot at The Langham Huntington in Pasadena, California and the Administration Building, Treasure Island in San Francisco, while the interior and pool scenes were shot at the Ritz Carlton in Marina Del Rey, California.

Connections to the 1961 film

There are several connections between this film and the original 1961 version:

• The characters Marva Kulp Sr. and Marva Kulp Jr. are named after Nancy Kulp, the actress who played a camp counsellor in the 1961 film, Miss Grunecker.
• Both versions of the film feature product placement by Nabisco. In the 1998 film, Oreos are featured, while in the 1961 film, Fig Newtons are featured.
• During the poolside scene where Annie and Meredith meet for the first time, Meredith speaks on the phone with someone named Reverend Mosby, who was a character in the 1961 film played by Leo G. Carroll.
• Joanna Barnes appears in both films, playing Vicky Robinson in the 1961 film, and Vicki Blake in the 1998 version.
• The Stafford Hotel is named after a boy in the 1961 film that accepts the boy s camp invitation to the dance at the beginning of film.
• Right before Hallie meets Meredith for the first time, she can be heard singing a few bars of Let s Get Together , a song from the 1961 version originally sung by Hayley Mills.
• There are bunk houses named Arapahoe in both films.

Music

The song used in the opening sequence in which glimpses of Nick and Elizabeth s first wedding are seen is Nat King Cole s L-O-V-E . The song used in the end credits, in which photos of Nick and Elizabeth s second wedding are seen, is his daughter Natalie Cole s This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) .

The instrumental music featured prominently in the hotel scene where the girls and their parents cross paths serendipitously is In the Mood , which was previously made famous by the Glenn Miller band. The song Let s Get Together is also quoted over the Walt Disney Pictures logo, and at the end of Alan Silvestri s closing credits suite.

When Hallie shows up at Annie s poker game at Camp Walden, the music used is Bad to the Bone by George Thorogood and the Destroyers.

The tune playing as Hallie and Annie are making their way up to the Isolation Cabin is the main theme from The Great Escape by Elmer Bernstein.

The song coming from the radio in Meredith s car as she pulls up to the Parker s home is Parents Just Don t Understand by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince.

The background song heard in the campfire scene is How Bizarre by the music group OMC.

The song playing as Annie, Elizabeth, and Martin say goodbye to Hallie, Nick and Chessy toward the end of the film is Ev ry Time We Say Goodbye , performed by Ray Charles & Betty Carter.

Soundtrack

The Parent Trap
Soundtrack album by Various artists
Released	July 28, 1998
Length	54:08
Label	Hollywood

The Parent Trap (Original Soundtrack)

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Recording artist	Length
1.	L-O-V-E	Bert Kaempfert; Milt Gabler	Nat King Cole	2:32
2.	Do You Believe in Magic	John Sebastian	The Lovin Spoonful	2:05
3.	There She Goes	Lee Mavers	The La s	2:43
4.	Top of the World	Fred Busby; John Bettis	Shonen Knife	3:56
5.	Here Comes the Sun	George Harrison	Bob Khaleel	3:08
6.	(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons	Deek Watson; William Best	Linda Ronstadt	3:44
7.	Soulful Strut	Eugene Record; Sonny Sanders	Young-Holt Unlimited	3:00
8.	Never Let You Go	Christian Berman; Frank Berman; Gabriel Gilbert; Jeff Coplan; Matthias Hass; Nick Laird-Clowes	Jakaranda	3:07
9.	Bad to the Bone	George Thorogood	George Thorogood & The Destroyers	4:49
10.	The Happy Club	Bob Geldof; Karl Wallinger	Bob Geldof	4:05
11.	Suite from The Parent Trap	Alan Silvestri		7:13
12.	This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)	Chuck Jackson; Marvin Yancy	Natalie Cole	2:49
13.	Dream Come True	Milton Davis	Ta-Gana	3:50
14.	Groovin	Eddie Brigati; Felix Cavaliere	Pato Banton & The Reggae Revolution	3:50
15.	Let s Get Together	Richard M. Sherman; Robert B. Sherman	Nobody s Angel	3:08
Total length:				54:08

Film score

The Parent Trap
Film score by Alan Silvestri
Released	September 1, 1998
Length	39:46
Label	Hollywood
Alan Silvestri chronology
The Odd Couple II (1998) The Parent Trap (1998) Practical Magic (1998)

All tracks are written by Alan Silvestri.

The Parent Trap (Original Score)

No.	Title	Length
1.	The Disney Logo	0:16
2.	Suite from The Parent Trap	7:12
3.	Annie and Martin	1:00
4.	Shake Hands, Girls	0:34
5.	Like Twins	3:39
6.	Changes	2:41
7.	Hallie Meets Mom	3:43
8.	Annie Meets Dad	2:11
9.	Vineyard Suite	1:38
10.	I Am Annie	1:17
11.	Dad s Getting Married	1:01
12.	Hallie Breaks the News	1:49
13.	You ll Kill in It	0:53
14.	Table for Two	1:51
15.	She s Gone	2:05
16.	Where Dreams Have No End	2:18
17.	We Actually Did It	1:38
18.	Finale	3:52
Total length:		39:46

Notes

Reception

Box office

The film premiered in Los Angeles on July 20, 1998. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $11,148,497 in 2,247 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #2 at the box office, behind Saving Private Ryan. By the end of its run, The Parent Trap grossed $66,308,518 domestically and $25,800,000 internationally, totaling $92,108,518 worldwide. The film was released in the United Kingdom on December 11, 1998, and opened on #3, behind Rush Hour and The Mask of Zorro.

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an 86% approval rating with an average rating of 6.8/10 based on 51 reviews. The website s consensus states: Writer-director Nancy Meyers takes the winning formula of the 1961 original and gives it an amiable modern spin, while young star Lindsay Lohan shines in her breakout role. Metacritic gave the film a score of 64/100, based on reviews from 19 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews.

Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert each gave the film three stars. Critic Kenneth Turan called Lohan the soul of this film as much as Hayley Mills was of the original , going on to say that she is more adept than her predecessor at creating two distinct personalities . Lohan won a Young Artist Award for best performance in a feature film.

In a 2021 interview, star of the original film Hayley Mills said, It was so like the one I did, and yet not. But I thought it was really good. She also praised Lohan s performance, calling her excellent .

Accolades

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result
1999	Artios Awards	Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy	Ilene Starger	Nominated
1999	Blockbuster Entertainment Awards	Favorite Female Newcomer	Lindsay Lohan	Nominated
1998	International Film Music Critics Association	Best Original Score for a Comedy Film	Alan Silvestri	Nominated
1999	Online Film & Television Association	Best Breakthrough Performance: Female	Lindsay Lohan	Won
		Best Youth Performance	Lindsay Lohan	Nominated
		Best Family Actress	Lindsay Lohan	Nominated
1999	Young Artist Awards	Best Performance in a Feature Film - Leading Young Actress	Lindsay Lohan	Won
		Best Family Feature - Comedy	The Parent Trap	Nominated
1998	YoungStar Awards	Best Performance by a Young Actress in a Comedy Film	Lindsay Lohan	Nominated

Home media

The Parent Trap was originally released on video in the United States on December 8, 1998. A 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray was released as a Disney Movie Club Exclusive on April 24, 2018. The film was also available as a launch title on Disney+.

Remake

• On February 21, 2018, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that remakes of several films are in development as exclusive content for The Walt Disney Company s streaming service Disney+ with one of those projects named in the announcement as The Parent Trap.
• Malayalam TV series Kasthooriman Season 2 is a loose adaptation of the movie.

Reunion

On July 20, 2020, Katie Couric moderated a virtual cast reunion through her Instagram account for the film s 22nd anniversary. Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Elaine Hendrix, Lisa Ann Walter, Simon Kunz, Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer all participated in the video chat. A charity fundraising effort during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reunion special helped raise money for chef José Andrés non-profit organization World Central Kitchen. Quaid then released an extended version of the reunion on his podcast The Dennissance on the following day.

Condition

New

Publisher

Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Published Date

1998

Age Group

Adult

Rating MPA

Not Rated

Recording Studio

Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Format

DVD

Brand

Walt Disney Home Entertainment

Amazon ASIN

B00A2K56PM

UPC / EAN

786936281644

Year

1998

ReleaseDate

1998-07-29

RuntimeMins

128

RuntimeStr

2h 8min

Awards

Awards, 2 wins & 7 nominations

Directors

Nancy Meyers

Writers

Erich Kästner, David Swift, Nancy Meyers

Stars

Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson

Produced by

Bruce A. Block, Julie B. Crane, Charles Shyer

Music by

Alan Silvestri

Cinematography by

Dean Cundey

Film Editing by

Stephen A. Rotter

Casting By

Ilene Starger

Production Design by

Dean Tavoularis

Art Direction by

Alex Tavoularis

Set Decoration by

Gary Fettis

Costume Design by

Penny Rose

Makeup Department

Karen Blynder, Brad Wilder, Joy Zapata, Toni-Ann Walker

Production Management

R. Anthony Brown, Robert Latham Brown, Paul Frift, Laurie MacDonald, Ron Lynch

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Bruce A. Block, Joan Cunningham, Susan J. Hellmann, John LeBlanc, Foongy Lee, Albert M. Shapiro, Daniel Shepherd, Toby Sherborne, Charles Shyer

Art Department

Russell R. Anderson, Mychael Bates, James R. Bayliss, Bruce A. Block, Dennis Bosher, Marcia Beal Brazer, Steve Callas, Jill Carvalho, Francis N. Lucky Costello, John Fenner, Peter N. Griffith, Kelly Hannafin, Sean Haworth, Heidi Hublou-Nunnally, Kurt V. Hulett, Peter James, Maurice Jones, Douglas T. Madison, Manu Poupard, Gretchen Scharfenberg, Vic Simpson, Bert Smith, Dianne Wager, Robert Webb, William G. West, Larry J. White II, Gill Andrae-Reid, Christopher Carlson, Iram Gutierrez, Peter James, William H. Phen Jr., Roger Prater, Heide Waldbaum, Mark Weber

Sound Department

Jeannette Browning, Mark Patrick Clark, Jeannette Cremarosa, Andy D Addario, Yann Delpuech, Dennis Drummond, Kim Drummond, Patrick Drummond, Richard Duarte, Linda Folk, David Giammarco, Joan Giammarco, Galen Goodpaster, Doc Kane, Jonathan Klein, Andy Malcolm, Cindy Marty, Mel Metcalfe, Douglas Murray, Judy Nord, Peter Pav, Thomas A. Payne, Michele Perrone, Jeena M. Phelps, Terry Porter, Sean Rush, Joe Schiff, Ken Weston, Kerry Dean Williams, Thomas Wright, Dan Yale, Mark Yardas, Robin Zacha, Dean A. Zupancic, Paul J. Zydel, Renee Tondelli

Special Effects by

Stuart Brisdon, Shawn Roberts, Cliff Wenger, James Davis III

Visual Effects by

Jude Adamson, David W. Allen, Amir Bemanian, Peter Brancaccio, Gayle Busby, C. Marie Davis, Kira Edmunds, Larry Gaynor, Gary Goldstein, Jeff Heusser, Fred Johnston, Ken Jones, Dawn Llewellyn, Thomas Mathai, Suzanne Mitus-Uribe, Danny Mudgett, Gregory Oehler, Bob Peishel, Landon Ruddel, Jim Rygiel, Mark Sachse, Daniel Aristoteles Collins, Doug Creel, Steven M. Hirohama, Glenn Ramos, Theresa Ellis Rygiel, Randy Starr

Stunts

Marc Cass, Freddie Hice, Troy Robinson, Jennifer Caputo, Colin C.L. Fong, Cassidy Hice, Victor Paul

Camera and Electrical Department

Michael Alexonis, Huston Beaumont, Rick A. Benedetto, Adam Biddle, Fred Brown, John S. Campbell, Steve Chandler, Peter Davidian, Tommy Finch, Robert Fisher, Chris Franco, Gregory Irwin, John LeBlanc, Frank Mathews, Jeff Matthews, Peter McAdams, William T. McKane, Mark Emery Moore, Bill O Drobinak, Angelo Orefice, Michael Orefice, Vince Orefice, James H. Pair III, Jesse Wayne Parker, Jerry Patton, Thomas P. Powell, C. Alan Rawlins, Rob Regan, Todd Schlopy, Lorey Sebastian, Robert Sharman, Mark Soucie, Raymond Stella, Joy R. Stone, C. Ashley Sudge, Rafael E. Sánchez, Wayne Tidwell, Mark Tilley, Anthony Wong, David Worley, Don Yamasaki, Firooz Zahedi, Eric Blum, James B. Crawford, Ron Goodman, R. Dana Harlow, Scott Kidner, Jay Laws, Stephen Lee, Bob Leitelt, David Marriott, David Norris, Ben Perry, Michael C. Price, Robert J. Reilly, Charles Smith, Chris Strong, Mark Tillie, Martyn Welland

Casting Department

Sarah Beardsall, Amy Jo Berman, Elizabeth Boykewich, Terri Douglas, Barbara Harris, Charlie Messenger, Leann Emmert, Vanessa Portillo

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Brad Anderson, Carolyn Dessert, Julie Glick, Yvonne Hobbs, Mathew Hooey, Cherlyn Lanning, Brian Lawler, Marina Marit, John Norster, Janet Tebrooke, Mei Lai Hippisley Coxe, Tess Inman, Andrew M Nelson

Editorial Department

David Barrett, Robert Berman, Laura Lee Bong, James Durante, Rolf Fleischmann, Dale E. Grahn, Marisa Morabito, Mary Beth Smith, Cort Wright, Adam Bernardi

Location Management

Simon Crook, Rory Enke, Thomas M. Harrigan, Paul Joyce, Angus More Gordon, John Panzarella, Leslie Thorson

Music Department

David Bifano, Lisa Brown, Sandy DeCrescent, Nora Felder, Bonnie Greenberg, Kenneth Karman, Mitchell Leib, Tom MacDougall, Allan Mason, Chris Montan, Kathy Nelson, Jay B. Richardson, Cassandra Richburg, William Ross, Dennis S. Sands, Andrew Silver, Alan Silvestri, Jacqueline Tager, Booker White, Tom Boyd, Tom Brown, George Doering, Daniel Gold, Jim Hoffman, The Hollywood Studio Orchestra, The Hollywood Studio Symphony, The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, James Thatcher

Script and Continuity Department

Jeanne Byrd, Michelle Cundey

Transportation Department

Jan Dally, Paul Grahame, Wendy S. Hallin, Stephen A. Latina, Barry Newell, Tom F. Thomas, John A. Brubaker, Ian Clarke, Steve De Leon, Manny DeMello, Dana Schisler, Sean Shepherd

Additional Crew

Geoff Abadee, Bob Anderson, Toni Atterbury, Barbara Berkery, Jeff Bilger, Mary Bowers, Peter Brancaccio, Judith M. Brown, Nicolette Chaffey, Lindsay Challoner, Tara Chang, Clair Chrysler, Alex Cole, Mark Davies, Nicholas de Wolff, Jim DeMarco, Jessica Drake, Frank J. Ellison, Suzanne Farwell, Lorraine Fennell, Stephanie Fischer, Melanie A. Gage, Carol Gans, Eileen Godoy, Michael Goosen, Fiona Gosden, Marion Gray, Linda Gregory, Bill Hansard, Susan Hegarty, Tom Hoeck, Beau Holden, Amanda Holm, Ozzy Inguanzo, Mark Ivie, Ricky Jay, Jeanefer Jean-Charles, Darren Jones, Suzanne Jones, Jim Jost, Tracy Kelly, Max Kisbye, Meti Kusari, Bryan Lamoreaux, Adria Later, Erin Mackey, Jason McGatlin, Annie Meyers-Shyer, Belita Moreno, Boone Narr, Jack Norton, Shaun O Banion, Regan Patno, Tony Payne, Frank Pelluchon, Randol Perelman-Taylor, Lani Pollock, Patricia Poole, Harriet Preston, Reid Reilich, Jonathan Robinson, Les Paul Robley, Denyse Rossi, Matthew Rubin, Kelly Safrit, Mika Saito, Steve Salada, Bob Schoofs, Barbara Schwartz, Donny Sierer, Steven E. Simon, Rebecca Stefan, Ronald P. Tavalaro, Aminta Townshend, Lauren Walker, Matt Walker, Michael Weber, Shawn Weber, Ronnie Wong, John Gray Worrell, Keith Young, Ken Ziegler, Kyle Cooper, Aria Noelle Curzon, Brian Dettor, Jessica Garvin, Michael D. Gillis, A.W. Gryphon, Traci Hainsworth, Stefan Kopiecki, Brynn McQuade, Kathryn Moore, RuDee Sade, Kevin Seldon, Tom Settle, Tim Weske, Robert Bobby Z Zajonc

Thanks

Stacey Attanasio, Willie Brown

Genres

Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Companies

Cinema Vehicles, The Meyers/Shyer Company, Walt Disney Pictures

Countries

USA, UK

Languages

English, French

ContentRating

PG

ImDbRating

6.6

ImDb Rating Votes

137374

Metacritic Rating

64

Short Description

The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner s 1949 German novel Lisa and Lottie (Das doppelte Lottchen).

Dennis 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. David Swift wrote the screenplay for the original 1961 film based on Lottie and Lisa. The story is comparable to that of the 1936 film Three Smart Girls. Swift is credited along with Meyers and Shyer as co-writers of the 1998 version.

The Parent Trap was theatrically released in the United States on July 29, 1998 and was a box-office hit, grossing $92.1 million against a $15 million budget. It received positive reviews from critics, with Lohan s performance in particular earning high praise.

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$11,148,497

Box Office Gross USA

$66,308,518

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$92,108,659

Keywords

Divorce,f rated,actress playing dual role,lake,twins separated at birth