

Eager to meet the parents from whom they were separated, they decide to switch places, cut their hair identically, and coach each other on their lives. They overcome their mutual dislike when they discover that they are identical twin sisters, whom their parents Mitch Evers and Maggie McKendrick separated upon divorcing shortly after their birth. As punishment, they must spend the remainder of the camp season rooming and dining together in isolation. Their identical appearance causes jealousy, resentment, and a rivalry in which they continually get each other into trouble and disrupt camp activities. Teenagers Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers meet at Miss Inch's Summer Camp for Girls. The Parent Trap was the second of six films Mills made for Disney. It was released on VHS, in digital stereo LaserDisc format (1986), and on DVD (2002). The film was remade in 1998 with Lindsay Lohan. It was broadcast on television, and three television sequels followed the later adventures of the twins.

It grossed $25.1 million at the box office and was nominated for two Academy Awards.

Produced by Walt Disney Productions, The Parent Trap was released on June 21, 1961, by Buena Vista Distribution. Although the plot is very close to that of the 1945 film Twice Blessed, The Parent Trap is based on the 1949 book Lisa and Lottie ( German: Das doppelte Lottchen) by Erich Kästner. Maureen O'Hara, and Brian Keith play the parents. It stars Hayley Mills (in a dual role) as a pair of teenage twins plotting to reunite their divorced parents by switching places with each other. The Parent Trap is a 1961 American romantic comedy film written and directed by David Swift.
