The Parent Trap

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Is this the greatest movie premise ever or what?

(and they improved it by upping the freckley ginger person count, yay!)

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 26 December 2002 22:14 (twenty-three years ago)

It's great, isn't it?

― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 December 2002 04:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It's fantastic. I punched the air when the English butler and the American nanny kissed. I wonder if there will be a rash of 11-year old girls doing DIY ear-piercing with heated pins and apple halves?

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 27 December 2002 09:54 (twenty-three years ago)

The nanny wasn't Jenny Aniston, was she? I couldn't quite tell and IMDB hasn't convinced me either.

― Graham (graham), Friday, 27 December 2002 10:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think she was, but one of the camp supervisors reminded me of the woman with the annoying laugh (Janice?) in Friends.

― Alfie (Alfie), Friday, 27 December 2002 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I watched it. I'm not quite sure why.

I, uh, actually quite enjoyed it. I'm not quite sure why.

The new Barry Norman, oh yes. (You may make the obvious jokes but they are vastly unfair to Jonathan Ross.)

Was it a remake of something oooold or is my mother confused? (I must start a thread in the hope Robin or Jerry or Mark S will tell me whether another recent claim of my mother's is true but it is so bizarre I fear I would never live it down in the fairly likely event that my mother just imagined it.)

― Rebecca (reb), Friday, 27 December 2002 23:34 (twenty-three years ago)

There was the Hayley Mills one from the 60s. Does that count as "oooold"? I think there was a German version that was made before the HM movie, too.

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 28 December 2002 00:12 (twenty-three years ago)

According to Disney's Parent Trap Fun Facts:

The Parent Trap" story is based on a popular German children's book called "Das Doppelte Lottchen" by Eric Kastner, published in 1950.
In 1953, the first English version, titled "Twice Upon a Time," was made in London. This led to the popular 1961 Disney movie "The Parent Trap," starring Hayley Mills.

In 1986, Disney made a television movie, "The Parent Trap II." Hayley Mills starred as a grown-up twin whose daughter tries to spark a romance between her mom and her best friend's dad.

In 1989, another television movie, "The Parent Trap III," told the tale of triplets trying to get their single father to marry the "right" woman. The same year, Disney also produced "The Parent Trap Hawaiian Honeymoon," in which the triplets join their now-married father in Hawaii.

Milk that franchise dry.

― Alfie (Alfie), Saturday, 28 December 2002 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

I believe it's those cute freckley ginger people that does it Rebecca (though I like the old one almost as much, not that I've seen more than half an hour of it).

(BTW I like your mum)

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 28 December 2002 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't this Camille Paglia's favorite movie?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 28 December 2002 08:42 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Erich Kastner is grebt btw

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The plot really doesn't hold up in real life. Who (except my mate Mark's parents) would think it equitable to split up and share the twins out with the other parent never getting any visitation rights and the sister never knowing each other.

I guess scientists might do this too. Didn't they remake this with Michael Keaton and call it Multiplicity.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm trying to find some pix by walter trier to post

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

emil meets the detectives

http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/ADJ/81.gif

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

haha brer rabbit (not kästner-related but k-cute)

http://www.adh.brighton.ac.uk/schoolofdesign/MA.COURSE/AEK/93.gif

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I cannot help think that Brer Fox is about to get 3rd degree burns there.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)