But looking at Nick and Elizabeth as an adult, I realize they’re the ones acting like children.įor starters, they live on opposite sides of the world. Hallie and Annie are living out every kid’s fantasy: that we can somehow take responsibility for our parents’ happiness and fix things for them. Now when I watch Annie and Hallie scheme to get their estranged parents back together, it hits me with the kind of melancholy that only parent-related issues can. It made for a tense household, and although the divorce was painful, it was clearly necessary for their future happiness-and for ours. The problem wasn’t that they argued the problem was that they never really talked to each other or spent any time together. While Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson) and Nick (Dennis Quaid) divorced when the twins were babies, if not before the twins were even born, my parents stayed together until I was 21. But when the focus shifts to adult relationships, things start to make less sense to any adults watching-which I can now say as an adult who has rewatched The Parent Trap.Īnother thing I have in common with Annie and Hallie is a set of parents who didn’t have a very happy relationship. Lindsay Lohan has unbeatable chemistry with, er, Lindsay Lohan, and the twins’ banter and blossoming friendship is a sweet portrayal of the affection between sisters who are close in age-before the teen years set in and they become mortal enemies. We get to watch the twins go from camp rivals who play practical jokes on each other to young girls who discover that they’re actually sisters and decide to trade places. Twenty years later, it’s clear that the best part of the movie is the beginning.
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