Doppelgängers! Shenanigans! Doppelgänger-related shenanigans! This episode has all of it, because this time we're looking at the Disney classic The Parent Trap!
In this episode we discuss:
- Erich Kästner's original 1949 novel, Lisa and Lottie.
- The Parent Trap (Disney, 1961), written and directed by David Swift, and starring Hayley Mills, Hayley Mills, Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Keith.
- The Parent Trap (Disney, 1998), directed by Nancy Meyers, written by Meyers and Charles Shyer, and starring Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Lohan, Natasha Richardson, and Dennis Quaid.
Footnotes:
- Featurette on the split screen effects in The Parent Trap
- Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in Every Single Movie Directed by Nancy Meyers
- "Gifts That Will Give Your Home the Nancy Meyers Movie Vibe" from Variety
- "The Parent Trap Reunion!" hosted by Katie Couric
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