The Parent Trap (1961 film)

The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney film. It stars Hayley Mills, Maureen OHara and Brian Keith in a story about teenage twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents. The screenplay by the films director David Swift was based upon the 1949 book Lottie and Lisa Das Doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kstner. The Parent Trap was nominated for two Academy Awards, was broadcast on television, saw three television sequels, was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan, and has been released on digital stereo LaserDisc format in 1986 as well as VHS and DVD in 2000. The original film was Mills second of six films for Disney.

Sharon telephones Susan in Boston with news that their father is planning to marry a gold digger, and their mother needs to be rushed to California to stop the wedding. In Boston, Susan reveals to her mother the truth about the switched identities and the two fly to California.In California, the twins with mild approval from their mother scheme to sabotage their fathers marriage plans. Mitchs moneyhungryand much youngerfiance Vicky Robinson receives rude, mischievous treatment from the girls and some veiled cattiness from Maggie. One evening, the girls recreate their parents first date at an Italian restaurant with a gypsy violinist. The former spouses are gradually drawn together, though they quickly begin bickering over minor things and Vicky. ........

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