The Parent Trap (1998 film)

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This article is about the 1998 remake. To see the original, see The Parent Trap.

The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap movie poster
Directed by	Nancy Meyers
Produced by	Charles Shyer
Written by	Erich Kästner (book) David Swift (screenplay)
Starring	Lindsay Lohan Dennis Quaid Natasha Richardson Elaine Hendrix
Distributed by	Buena Vista Distribution
Release date(s)	July 29, 1998
Running time	127 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English
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The Parent Trap (1998) is a remake of the original Parent Trap from 1961, starring Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson and introducing Lindsay Lohan. The story is based on Erich Kästner's Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen).

[edit] Plot synopsis

Hallie Parker (Lohan) is an 11-year-old girl growing up in the Napa Valley with her father, Nicholas "Nick" Parker (Quaid), a successful vineyard owner and a viticulturist. Annie James is a Londoner living with her wedding-gown-designer mother, Elizabeth "Lizzie" James (Richardson). The two were separated as babies when the parents were divorced and each took one child. Neither twin knows the other exists until, by coincidence, they both are sent to Camp Walden in Maine for the summer. Rivals at first, the lookalikes soon discover the secret that had been kept from them, and concoct a plan to switch places to meet the parent each has never known and, perhaps, to reunite mom and dad. The plan takes on a new urgency when Annie, pretending to be Hallie, learns that her father is falling for his ambitious young publicist, Meredith Blake (Elaine Hendrix). They hatch a plan to get their parents back together, with success.

[edit] Cast

• Lindsay Lohan - Hallie Parker and Annie James
• Dennis Quaid - Nick Parker
• Natasha Richardson - Elizabeth James
• Elaine Hendrix - Meredith Blake
• Lisa Ann Walter - Chessy
• Simon Kunz - Martin
• Polly Holliday - Marva Kulp, Sr.
• Maggie Wheeler - Marva Kulp, Jr.
• Ronnie Stevens - Grandpa Charles James
• Erin Mackey- Hallie/Annie double
• Katerina Graham - Jackie (Annie's friend)
• Hallie Meyers-Shyer - Lindsay (Annie's friend)
• Courtney Woods - Nicole (Hallie's friend)
• Maggie Emma Thomas - Zoe (Hallie's friend)
• Michael Lohan - Lost Boy At Camp
• Stanley John Stephens - Alex

[edit] Box Office

The movie entered the box office charts at number 2 on 31 July 1998. It ended up with a U.S. gross of over $66 million. [1]

[edit] Trivia

• Camp Walden (Camp Inch in the 1961 film) is based on an existing Camp Crestridge for Girls in North Carolina. There is no Isolation Cabin.
• There are many references to the original The Parent Trap from 1961:
  • The use of the Sherman Brothers song, "Let's Get Together".
  • Meredith talks to Reverend Mosby, a character from the original film, on her cell phone. Similarly, Hallie and Annie use Mildred Plotker as cover names.
  • Actress Joanna Barnes, who played the wicked girlfriend Vicky in the original The Parent Trap, plays Meredith's mother (also named Vicky) in this film.
  • The camp counselors, Marva Kulp Sr. and Jr., are named after Nancy Kulp, who played the younger of the camp counselors in the original.
• The twins in this version are named after director Nancy Meyers's and producer Charles Shyer's daughters Annie Meyers-Shyer and Hallie Meyers-Shyer, both of whom have small parts in the movie. Hallie is playing a girl at camp at the beginning who asks where the Navajo bunk is, and Annie is playing the towel girl at the hotel, who brings Elizabeth the first aid kit.
• The lost boy who shows up at the girls camp is played by Michael Lohan, Lindsay Lohan's brother. When Hallie arrives in London and meets Martin at the airport, the audience can see Lindsay Lohan's mother holding her brother Dakota. Beside her is Lindsay's other brother Michael and sister Aliana.
• Michelle Trachtenberg was considered for the role(s) of the twins. Coincidentally, the actress's birthday falls on October 11, the same day as Hallie and Annie's in the film.
• The man who weds the parents at the beginning is played by the film's director of photography, Dean Cundey.
• After Hallie arrives in London, she and her mother walk across the street together, on the same street, crosswalk, and with the same cars as the Abbey Road album cover. The song "Here Comes The Sun" (written by George Harrison) plays.
• The scene where Annie and Hallie are lying in bed and the camera pans from the moon, to the parents' picture, to the twins, took six hours to get right.
• When this movie was shown on Disney Channel, the scenes where Hallie pierces Annie's ears, when Annie (Hallie) takes a sip of the wine, and when Annie rides the plane to London are cut.
• While Annie (as Hallie) is watching the places at London, the car she is in, passes by a living statue of a soldier, who's none other than actor Will Ferrel

[edit] External links

• The Parent Trap (1998) Special Double Trouble Edition DVD Review with Pictures
• The Parent Trap at the Internet Movie Database