The Parent Trap

Name: The Parent Trap
Director: Nancy Meyers
Released: 1998

Nancy Meyers

1998

Synopsis

Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. Unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places.

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Lindsay LohanHallie Parker / Annie James
Dennis QuaidNick Parker
Natasha RichardsonElizabeth James
Elaine HendrixMeredith Blake
Lisa Ann WalterChessy
Simon KunzMartin
Ronnie StevensGrandfather
Michael Lohan Jr.Lost Boy at Camp
Kat GrahamJackie
Lisa CloudCamp Counselor

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90
Newsweek
This film has everything for the all-important female audience: feisty heroines, lots of slapstick, great clothes.
80
Los Angeles Times
Irresistible family entertainment.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
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.
75
Entertainment Weekly
The natural, pleasurable 1990s hipness [Lohan] brings to her assignment is therefore all the more impressive. Hayley-holics should be grateful to this new girl at camp too.
70
The New York Times
The visual illusion that Ms. Lohan is actually two characters has been accomplished so seamlessly that it barely diverts attention from one of the film's greatest passions, its product plugs.
70
L.A. Weekly
The rewrite went well, and the crew did a fine job; but you insult us, Mein Disney, serving up leftovers on such expensive china.
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's an enjoyable film, carried along by the perennial strength of the story... But it won't have the staying power of the original.
60
TV Guide Magazine
The technology for twinning a single young actress is considerably more seamless than it was in 1961, and Lohan is a perky charmer.

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