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     The Parent Trap

1961  NR  COMEDY  2h 8min

CAST— Hayley Mills, Maureen O’Hara, Brian Keith, Charlie Ruggles, Una Merkel, Leo G. Carroll, Joanna Barnes, Cathleen Nesbitt, Nancy Kulp, Frank DeVol

MUSIC— Paul Smith  DIRECTOR— David Swift  BASED ON— Lottie and Lisa (novel), by Erich Kästner

     Hayley Mills stars opposite herself in this charmer from Walt Disney Pictures. When young Mills meets herself at camp she soon realizes that she has a long lost twin. One twin lives with her mother in Boston, the other with father in California. They begin to devise a plan that will reconcile both parents, one that will lead to marital bliss and one big happy family. They switch places on their parents, the Cali girl headed for Boston and vice versa. But things have changed on the fatherhood front; it seems that he’s found himself a new fiancée, a nasty young gold digger who throws a monkey wrench into the twins’ plans. The solution: eliminate her. The comedy kicks into overdrive when sister #2 arrives. They sabotage any and all efforts for Dad’s new girl to become one of the family, while simultaneously working on their parents’ romantic dilemma. A first rate family comedy with heart, as only Disney can produce.

OUR RATING— ** ½

FOLLOWED BY— The Parent Trap II (1986), The Parent Trap III (1989), Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989)

REMADE AS— The Parent Trap (1998)