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The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap is a 1961 American romantic comedy film written and directed by David Swift. It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role) as a pair of teenage twins plotting to reunite their divorced parents by switching places with each other. Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith play the parents. Although the plot is very close to that of the 1945 film Twice Blessed, The Parent Trap is based on the 1949 German children's novel Das doppelte Lottchen by Erich Kästner.
Plot
Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at a girls summer camp. Their identical appearance causes jealousy, resentment, and a rivalry in which they continually get each other into trouble and disrupt camp activities. As punishment, they must spend the remainder of the camp season rooming and dining together in isolation. They overcome their mutual dislike when they realize that they are identical twin sisters, whom their parents, Mitch and Maggie, separated upon divorcing shortly after their birth. Eager to meet the parents from whom they were separated, they decide to cut their hair identically, coach each other on their lives, and switch places.
More details
| author | David Swift |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | California |
| director | David Swift |
| editor | Philip W. Anderson |
| events | summer camp program |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | bear cub boarding school camping trip divorce engage first date hatred identical twin lick make up morning summer camp twin sister wed younger woman |
| musicBy | Paul Smith Sherman Brothers |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Sound |
| producer | Walt Disney |
| productionCompany | Walt Disney Pictures |
| publisher | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures |
| theme | children's children's comedy comedy of remarriage musical comedy romantic comedy |