The Parent Trap is a Disneyfilm series, originating in 1961 with Hayley Mills. She played both roles of twin sisters who were raised separately by divorced parents, without any knowledge of each other. They meet at a summer holiday camp, and switch places so that they can each meet their other parent. Mills reprised her roles three times in subsequent made-for-television sequels.
A remake was released in 1998, with a plot similar to the original film and written by the original film's writer/director David Swift, with segments of the story being reworked into a romantic-comedy. The twins were portrayed by Lindsay Lohan.
The Parent Trap 1961
Films[edit]The Parent Trap (1961)[edit]![]()
The Parent Trap is a feature film directed by David Swift for Walt Disney Pictures released in 1961. It was based on the book Das Doppelte Lottchen written by Erich Kästner. The film stars Hayley Mills who plays the roles of the thirteen-year-old twin girls, Sharon and Susan. Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith play the twins’ parents, Maggie and Mitch. The film is about the two girls who meet at a summer camp as strangers and realize that they are identical twins. They switch places so that each can meet the other parent, and they plan to bring their divorced parents back together. Soon after switching, the twins learn that there is a new woman, named Vicky Robinson (played by Joanna Barnes), in their father's life. After Mitch tells Sharon about his engagement to Vicky, the girls come up with a new game plan to get rid of the woman who threatens their plan to reconnect their parents.[1]
The Parent Trap II[edit]
The Parent Trap II, written by Stuart Krieger, is a television film that aired on July 26, 1986 on the Disney Channel. It was directed by Ronald F. Maxwell. The film is a continuation on the Walt Disney film, The Parent Trap. The Parent Trap II was filmed twenty-five years after the original film. The idea of a second film was announced in 1985. The only actor who returned from the original film, Hayley Mills, continues to portray the twins, Sharon and Susan. The Parent Trap II focuses on Sharon's daughter Nikki who tries to set up her mother with her best friend's father, portrayed by Tom Skerritt. All the music was composed by Charles Fox as well as the title song, 'Lets Keep What We Got' that was performed by Marilyn McCoo, for the TV film in 1986.
Parent Trap III[edit]
The Parent Trap II was such a success for the Disney Channel that it spawned another made-for-television sequel, Parent Trap III, in 1989. Hayley Mills again reprises her role as twins Susan and Sharon, with Barry Bostwick as a father of triplet girls and Patricia Richardson as his snobbish girlfriend.
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon[edit]
Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989) is the final sequel, with Hayley Mills again reprising her role as Susan and Sharon, now both married. Also returning from Parent Trap III is Barry Bostwick and the Creel triplets: Joy, Leanna and Monica.
The Parent Trap (1998)[edit]![]()
Lindsay Lohan stars in the remake of the first Parent Trap film, playing the role of the identical twins whose lives change at the summer camp they attend. The remake caught the attention of audiences when it premiered on July 29, 1998. The parents of the twins, Nick Parker (played by Dennis Quaid) and Elizabeth James (played by Natasha Richardson), marry on a cruise ship and quickly figure out their lives are in two separate places. They each take one of the twins and then go their separate ways. Eleven years pass and the identical twins, Annie James and Hallie Parker, embark on their summer journeys not knowing each other. The initial rivalry between them turns out to bring them closer and they realize that they must be sisters. Their new goal is to make their parents fall in love again before their father and his fiancé Meredeth Blake (played by Elaine Hendrix) marry. The film was directed by Nancy Meyers.
Potential remake[edit]
In February 2018, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that remakes of several live-action films are in development as exclusive content for Walt Disney Studios' upcoming streaming service Disney+; with one of those named in the announcement being The Parent Trap.[2]
Documentary on the film series[edit]Elaine Hendrix
Family Films Productions is developing The Legacy of The Parent Trap, a documentary film that gives a retrospective insight into developing The Parent Trap. [3][4] The film will reportedly feature memories and stories of various cast and crew, about the original 1961 film and its three sequels. Among the interviews, all-new footage featuring Hayley Mills will be included. Additional interviewees include Tom Skerritt, Carrie Kei Heim, Creel triplets including, Monica Creel Lacy, Leanna & Joy Creel, Susan Henning, Ron Maxwell (Director of Parent Trap II, Mollie Miller (Director of Parent Trap III/Hawaiian Honeymoon), Tommy Sands, and Joanna Barnes and even Lynette Winters, and Kay Cole (camp inch scenes). Bridgette Andersen's Teresa mother discusses reflections on experiences which occurred on-set during filming of The Parent Trap II, with director Ron Maxwell, among others. Marilyn McCoo also is featured sharing memories about recording music for Parent Trap II. The project will analyze and also focus on the life of Erich Kastner who wrote the original German book, Das Doppelte Lottchen that the films were was based on. Aaron Pacentine will executive produce the film. This is the first full-length film documentary that details coverage on the 1980s Parent Trap films, and the first time the director, Mollie Miller, has spoken out publicly about the original film since then.
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'I'll teach you to be me, and you teach me to be you,' one twin says, after they meet by chance at summer camp and realize that they've been raised separately by divorced parents. It's a splendid story premise, but in a way, the switch is just the setup, and the real story involves the parents. They're played by Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson, who bring such humor and warmth to the movie that I was amazed to find myself actually caring about their romance.
The three important supporting roles are also well-filled. Plump, spunky Lisa Ann Walter plays the nanny and housekeeper on Quaid's spread (he runs a vineyard in the Napa Valley), and bald, droll Simon Kunz is Richardson's butler (she's a trendy London fashion designer). Elaine Hendrix, coming across a little like Sharon Stone, is the snotty publicist who plans to marry Quaid--until the parent trap springs. She has a thankless role--the only person in the movie we're not supposed to like--but at least they don't make her just stand there and be obnoxious. She gets to earn her stripes in a camping trip during which she demonstrates, once and for all, that she is not the ideal wife for Quaid.
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A movie like this has to cover a lot of ground, in several different locations. That's why good casting is so important. There's not time to establish the characters carefully, so they have to bring their personalities along with them almost from the first shot. Quaid is instantly likable, with that goofy smile. Richardson, who almost always plays tougher roles and harder women, this time is astonishing, she's so warm and attractive. The two of them have a conversation over an old bottle of wine, and, yes, it's cornball--but quality cornball, earning its sentiment.
Movies like this remember how much fun escapism can be. The film opens with Quaid and Richardson falling in love on the QE2 and being married mid-Atlantic. The film includes the kind of summer camp where when the kids play pranks, it looks like they had the help of a platoon of art directors and special-effects coordinators. And of course both parents live in great houses: Richardson in a London town house with sweeping staircases and Architectural Digest interiors, Quaid in a Napa ranch home with a shaded veranda.
The key task is to make the double photography of the 'twins' work. All kinds of tricks are used, and of course the techniques are more advanced than they were in 1961, but since you can't see them anyway, you forget about them. Lindsay Lohan has command of flawless British and American accents, and also uses slightly flawed ones for when the girls are playing each other. What she has all the time is the same kind of sunny charm Hayley Mills projected, and a sense of mischief that makes us halfway believe in the twins' scheme.
The movie was directed by Nancy Meyers and produced by Charles Shyer; they wrote the script with David Swift. Meyers and Shyer have specialized in light domestic comedies ('Baby Boom,' 'Father Of The Bride'), and they make this into a good one--a family picture that's not too soppy for adults. My only reservation involves the ear-piercing scene, which I suspect will lead to an epidemic of do-it-yourself home surgery.
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