The Parent Trap (1998)

Release date: 1998-07-29
Country: USA
Language: English|French
Director: Nancy Meyers
Production Co: Cinema Vehicle Services, The Meyers/Shyer Company, Walt Disney Pictures
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Rating: 6.5/10
Length: 2h 8min

Storyline

When two pre-teens named Hallie and Annie meet through their summer camp, their two lives are rattled when they realize that they are identical twins. With parents, British mother aka famous dress designer Elizabeth and American father, a wine maker named Nick, living in two different sides of the universe, the girls decide to make an identity swap in hopes of spending time with their other parent. The girls later choose to aware their guardians of the swap while at a hotel in NYC, which late reunites the divorced pair and sends them back into remarriage with each other.

Plot Keywords

divorce, f rated, mother daughter reunion, husband wife reunion, father daughter reunion, family reunion, vineyard, poker, grandfather granddaughter relationship, single parent, family relationships, drinking, drink, surrogate father, servant, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, estrangement, dual role, drunkenness

Short Review

This 1998 romantic comedy mostly bores with its cumbersome exposition and close-ups of trivial objects scattered throughout lackluster montage sequences.