Synopsis
Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.
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Cast
- Kirstie AlleyDiane Barrows
- Steve GuttenbergRoger Callaway
- Ashley OlsenAlyssa Callaway
- Mary-Kate OlsenAmanda Lemmon
- Jane SibbettClarice Kensington
- Philip BoscoVincenzo
- Michelle GrisomCarmen
- Desmond RobertsonFrankie
- Tiny MillsTiny
- Shanelle HenryPatty
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
Writer Deborah Dean Davis and director Andy Tennant are fully aware of the absolute predictability of their material and therefore make the getting to an inevitable ending as much fun as possible. - 60
Variety
Quite simply, It Takes Two is just too cute for words. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
It seems only fitting that the flavorless Guttenberg would land in this smooth tapioca concoction, but Alley deserves better. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is harmless and fitfully amusing. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The Olsens' precociousness and sitcom-style mugging grate at first, but I found myself warming to their movie in its last half - thanks mostly to Alley, a crackerjack physical comic who's incapable of a flat or colorless note. - 50
San Francisco Examiner
The adorable overacting of the twins [Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen] make this otherwise dopey movie watchable. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
The movie is a competent formula kid flick stuffed to the dimples with movie deja vu, a sop to those Hollywood-bashing politicians who want old-fashioned family values on their celluloid. [17 Nov 1995] - 50
TV Guide Magazine
This modern-day hybrid of "The Prince and the Pauper" and "The Parent Trap" is a slickly contrived showcase for the professionally cute Olsen Twins, late of TV's Full House.
