History Film / TheParentTrap

* TrainingMontage: The twins use this to give each other information and mannerisms they'll need to remember when visiting the other parent.

* TrainingMontage

* ButIPlayOneOnTV: These movies have convinced a fair number of people, mainly children, that Hayley Mills and/or Lindsay Lohan actually has a twin. And Lohan played twins again, less successfully, [[IKnowWhoKilledMe when she was older]].

* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Mom punches Dad [[EyeScream in the eye]]. Thankfully averted in the LindsayLohan version.
** Considering [[MaureenOHara the actress]], maybe it was more Abuse Is Okay When It's the Woman Known For Slugging JohnWayne on Male....
** What he says after being punched suggests she'd done stuff like that to him when they were married: "Why do you have to get so physical? Can't even talk to you about anything, you're always trying to belt me with something." Despite the movie's attempt to make the scene cutesy, with her awkward and girlish punch, modern viewers may find the implications disturbing.
** The remake does allude to this, when Elizabeth and Nick are reminiscing about how they broke up. She threw a hairdryer at him.

* FootFocus: The bear cubs licking honey off of Vicky's feet while they're camping.

* CountryMouse, CityMouse: Hallie is the Country Mouse coming from a vast vineyard in Northern California while Annie is the City Mouse coming from downtown London.
** Played with, in that Annie adjusts very well to camping in the forest.

* LittleBlackDress: Martin, Elizabeth's butler and friend, suggests she take one on the trip to see Nick and switch the girls back.
** She's actually wearing it when they all go out to dinner.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Happens to both Hallie and Annie, more often to whoever has a British accent at the moment. Often it's the In-Character version of the trope. Lohan had to play four accents -- American, British, American pretending to be British, and British pretending to be American. The latter two had accents slipping.
** And Lohan does a remarkable job in the scene at the hotel where she's basically playing four characters at once - Hallie, Annie, Hallie pretending to be Annie and Annie pretending to be Hallie. She switches up the accents just enough to do exactly what Hallie and Annie were after (confuse the heck out of Mom and Dad).

The movie is based on a book, ''Das Doppelte Lottchen'', which has also been filmed as ''Das Doppelte Lottchen'' (a version that retains author Erich Kästner as narrator), ''Twice Upon a Time'' and ''Hibari's Lullaby'' (a Japanese telling).

* FirstFatherWins

A {{Disney}} live-action film that has been filmed twice. The original starred Hayley Mills and yielded three sequels which are hard to fit into one continuity (and are [[FirstInstallmentWins pretty much forgotten about]]). The remake starred a [[SheReallyCanAct (surprisingly brilliant)]] pre-insanity LindsayLohan, Dennis Quaid, and the late, marvelous Natasha Richardson.

* EvilDetectingDog: In addition to the example listed in the top folder, Annie's dog barks at Meredith in the hotel.

* [[GuessWhoImMarrying Guess Who I'm Marrying]]

* EvilDetectingDog: Annie isn't exactly evil, but Hallie's dog Sammy still figures out that she's an impostor much earlier than the father and the maid do, and (in a straighter example) barks at Meredith in the hotel.

A {{Disney}} live-action film that has been filmed twice. The original starred Hayley Mills and yielded three sequels which are hard to fit into one continuity (and are [[FirstInstallmentWins pretty much forgotten about]]). The remake starred a (surprisingly brilliant) pre-insanity LindsayLohan, Dennis Quaid, and the late, marvelous Natasha Richardson.

[[folder: The Original Verison]]

** Played with in that Annie adjusts very well to camping in the forest

* BookEnds: As part of AlanSilvestri's score, short, dramatic instrumentals of "Let's get together, yeah, yeah, yeah," accompany both the opening Walt Disney Pictures logo and the last few seconds of the end credits.

** "The man went completely ashen, like I was the bloody [[AChristmasCarol Ghost of Christmas Past]]!"

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sharon is a girly girl, having been raised as a child of Boston high society; Susan is the tomboy. The remake has high-society Londoner Annie as the girly-girl to laid-back Californian Hallie, though Annie is still quite happy to go on camping trips, ride horses, and fence so she's an active girly-girl who can match her tomboy sister in most feats. [[CityMouse Meredith on the other hand]].

* ScreamDiscretionShot: When Hallie pierces Annie's ears, and when the girls drag Annie's mattress into a lake.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Meredith said multiple times that as soon as she married Nick, she was shipping the kids far, far away (once she said Timbuktu, another time she was Switzerland.)

--> '''Elizabeth:''' (to Annie) You're not to worry, okay? \\

** The remake does allude to this, when Elizabeth and Nick are reminiscing about how they broke up.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Sharon is a girly girl, having been raised as a child of Boston high society; Susan is the tomboy. The remake has high-society Londoner Annie as the girly-girl to laid-back Californian Hallie.