This is a quirky Disney flick that is geared toward children and families. A very young Lindsay Lohan plays twin sisters Annie and Hallie who were torn apart when they were babies and before they could remember they each had a sister.
The first part of the movie takes place at a rustic Maine summer camp and includes all of the typical rascally hijinks you'd expect to see in a movie about young children at a sleepaway camp. Hallie shows up at the camp from Napa Valley, where she lived in an enormous mansion with her father who is some sort of mega-rich winemaker. Annie shows up at the camp from London, where she lived in an enormous mansion with her mother, who is some sort of world-renowned dress designer. Privilege is abound in this flick!
The two girls discover that they are sisters by talking about their home lives and families and devise a plan to get their parents back together. It all works out in the end and the parents to reunite, but at what cost?
Randy Quaid plays Nick Parker and Natasha Richardson plays Elizabeth James as the parents of Hallie and Annie. It is revealed that the two had a fling of a relationship, popped out twins, and then decided to split. The arrangement was that each parent would take a twin and then never allow their daughters to know that they have a twin sister.
Essentially, each of the parents willfully abandoned one of their children just so they could go on with their own self-absorbed personal lives to chase their "dreams" and large sums of money. Nick Parker and Elizabeth James may be two of the worst villains you might see. However, the producers at Disney do not portray it this way and instead portray Nick's fiancee, Meredith Blake (played by Elaine Hendrix) as the villain.
Annie (now in Napa) plots to destroy Nick and Meredith's relationship and ultimately succeeds. Meredith Blake may not be likable due to her acidic personality and questionable motives for marrying Nick, but she is by no means the villain here.
Nick and Elizabeth are two of the worst parents around. They essentially lied to their daughters for 11 years. Nick fell in love and became engaged to Meredith and lied to her about his deep, dark secret, too!
Ultimately, the movie celebrates the two lowlifes for falling back in love, getting back together, and reuniting Hallie and Annie. I guess the lesson here is that even the bad guys win sometimes.
The first part of the movie takes place at a rustic Maine summer camp and includes all of the typical rascally hijinks you'd expect to see in a movie about young children at a sleepaway camp. Hallie shows up at the camp from Napa Valley, where she lived in an enormous mansion with her father who is some sort of mega-rich winemaker. Annie shows up at the camp from London, where she lived in an enormous mansion with her mother, who is some sort of world-renowned dress designer. Privilege is abound in this flick!
The two girls discover that they are sisters by talking about their home lives and families and devise a plan to get their parents back together. It all works out in the end and the parents to reunite, but at what cost?
Randy Quaid plays Nick Parker and Natasha Richardson plays Elizabeth James as the parents of Hallie and Annie. It is revealed that the two had a fling of a relationship, popped out twins, and then decided to split. The arrangement was that each parent would take a twin and then never allow their daughters to know that they have a twin sister.
Essentially, each of the parents willfully abandoned one of their children just so they could go on with their own self-absorbed personal lives to chase their "dreams" and large sums of money. Nick Parker and Elizabeth James may be two of the worst villains you might see. However, the producers at Disney do not portray it this way and instead portray Nick's fiancee, Meredith Blake (played by Elaine Hendrix) as the villain.
Annie (now in Napa) plots to destroy Nick and Meredith's relationship and ultimately succeeds. Meredith Blake may not be likable due to her acidic personality and questionable motives for marrying Nick, but she is by no means the villain here.
Nick and Elizabeth are two of the worst parents around. They essentially lied to their daughters for 11 years. Nick fell in love and became engaged to Meredith and lied to her about his deep, dark secret, too!
Ultimately, the movie celebrates the two lowlifes for falling back in love, getting back together, and reuniting Hallie and Annie. I guess the lesson here is that even the bad guys win sometimes.