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We get a double dose of Hayley Mills in this Disney vehicle: she plays 13-year-old identical twins Susan and Sharon, who meet for the very first time in summer camp. They soon learn that they were separated at a very early age when their parents Mitch and Maggie (Brian Keith and Maureen O'Hara) divorced. On a lark, the girls switch places: the one living with Mitch goes back home with Maggie, and vice versa. Mitch is planning to remarry the "wrong woman," vituperative Vicky (Joanna Barnes). The
Jun 21, 1961 Wide
May 7, 2002
Buena Vista Distribution Company
All Critics (18) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (2) | DVD (10)
Surprisingly, the film is delightful-mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.
Top CriticHayley Mills rocks in her dual role as twins.
An enjoyable, corny Disney picture with a memorable soundtrack featuring tunes sung by Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello.
...irrelevant and dated...
There is plenty in The Parent Trap to cause you to chuckle.
Easily one of the best Disney live-action films, with Mills shining in a dual role.
The story has been filmed three times...This is the best of them, thanks largely to Mills's natural comic charm.
Pretty good family film. Helps that Hayley Mills was my first crush, when I was 10 years old.
Probably the most entertaining of all Disney live action films of its era
It's rather a long film for its slender story line.... But it obviously became a smash hit, so what do I know.
...a delightful, juvenile, romantic-comedy romp, and, yes, maybe it works for adults, too.
It was OK, but if I had a choice, I most certainly would not watch it again.
August 18, 2011Super Reviewer
This is way duller than the Lindsay Lohan version, especially the romance between the parents.
April 28, 2011Super Reviewer
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