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The Parent Trap is a american film of genre Comedy directed by David Swift released in USA on 21 june 1961 with Hayley Mills

The Parent Trap (1961)

The Parent Trap
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Released in USA 21 june 1961
Length 2h9
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Comedy,    Romantic comedy
Rating71% 3.598113.598113.598113.598113.59811

The Parent Trap is a 1961 Walt Disney film. It stars Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith in a story about teenage twins on a quest to reunite their divorced parents. The screenplay by the film's director David Swift was based upon the 1949 book Lottie and Lisa (Das Doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner. 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.

Synopsis

Identical twins Susan Evers and Sharon McKendrick meet at summer camp, unaware that they are sisters. Their identical appearance initially creates rivalry, and they continuously pull pranks on each other, which ultimately leads to the camp dance being crashed by their mischief. As punishment, they must live together in an isolated cabin (and eat together at an "isolation table") for the remainder of their time at summer camp. After both admit they come from broken homes, they soon realize they are twin sisters and that their parents, Mitch and Maggie, divorced shortly after their birth, with each parent having custody of one of them. The twins, each eager to meet the parent she never knew, switch places. They drill each other on the other's behavior and lives, and Susan cuts Sharon's hair into the same style as hers. While Susan is in Boston masquerading as Sharon, Sharon goes to California pretending to be Susan.

Actors

Hayley Mills

(Susan Evers / Sharon McKendrick)Maureen O'Hara

(Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick)Brian Keith

(Mitch Evers)Charles Ruggles

(Charles McKendrick)Joanna Barnes

(Vicky Robinson)
And :
Una Merkel
Leo G. Carroll
Cathleen Nesbitt
Ruth McDevitt
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The Parent Trap film series

The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap
(1961) The Parent Trap II
The Parent Trap II
(1986) The Parent Trap
The Parent Trap
(1998)

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