The Parent Trap (1961)

Release date: 1961-06-21
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: David Swift
Production Co: Walt Disney Productions
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Rating: 7.1/10
Length: 2h 9min

Storyline

Hayley Mills plays twins who, unknown to their divorced parents, meet at a summer camp. Products of single parent households, they switch places so as to meet the parent they never knew, and then contrive to reunite them.

Plot Keywords

summer camp, father daughter reunion, mother daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, single father, single mother, identity swap, lake, identical twins, divorce, twin sisters, honey, massachusetts, rain, uniform, dress, cabin, piano playing

Short Review

Surprisingly, the film is delightful-mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.