The Parent Trap

Year

1998

Duration

129 minutes

Genres

Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance

Language

English

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Two girls meet at summer camp and notice pretty quickly that they look absolutely the same. It turns out that they are twins (and didn't know it!): Hailie has been brought up in America by her father, while Annie was raised in England by her mother. Now that they have found each other, they decide to swap lives and plot to bring their parents back together - which means sabotaging their father's upcoming wedding.

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Nancy Meyers

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This film has a couple of uses of mild bad language and a mild sex reference.

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