They decide to switch places to get their parents to meet again and get back together each girl trains the other to be like her. When they realize each has a divorced parent, they show one another a photograph of the parents with whom they have never met and discover they are twins who were separated at birth. When Hallie and her friends perform a dangerous prank on Annie's cabin, Hallie and Annie are sent to the isolation cabin where they begin to bond over some of their common interests. Meanwhile, Elizabeth raises Annie in London where she works as a wedding gown designer.ġ1 years and 9 months later in the year 1998, the twins are coincidentally sent to the same summer camp where they form an intense rivalry. Shortly after the twins' birth, Nick and Elizabeth divorce with Nick being given custody over Hallie and raising her in California where he owns his own vineyard. Soon, they give birth to twins named Hallie and Annie. In 1986, Nick Parker and Elizabeth James meet on the Queen Elizabeth 2, fall in love and get married. It received positive reviews from critics, with Lohan's performance in particular earning high praise. The Parent Trap was theatrically released in the United States on Jand was a box-office hit, grossing $92.1 million against a $15 million budget. Swift is credited along with Meyers and Shyer as co-writers of the 1998 version.

The story is comparable to that of the 1936 film Three Smart Girls.

David Swift wrote the screenplay for the original 1961 film based on Lottie and Lisa. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner's 1949 German novel Lisa and Lottie ( Das doppelte Lottchen).ĭennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson star as a divorced couple who separated shortly after their identical twin daughters' birth Lindsay Lohan stars (in her film debut) as both twins, Hallie Parker and Annie James, who are fortuitously reunited at summer camp after being separated at birth.

The Parent Trap is a 1998 American romantic comedy film directed and co-written by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer.

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