Desperate to meet the parent they never knew, they make a plan: switching places to reunite their family, with hopes of getting their parents back together. During a heart-to-heart, they discover they are twin sisters. 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.ġ1 years and 9 months 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.

It received positive reviews from critics, with Lohan's performance in particular earning high praise. The Parent Trap was theatrically released in the United States on Jand was a box-office hit, 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 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 directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer.

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