After 12 Years, Twins Seperated Since Birth Meet For The First Time
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00:00 Hi, Mystery Recapped here.
00:02 Today I'm going to explain an American family comedy film called The Parent Trap.
00:08 Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care.
00:15 The movie begins with children arriving at Camp Walden for an 8 week long all girls summer
00:21 camp.
00:22 The girls seem overjoyed to be camping next to Moose Lake.
00:25 Hallie Parker is an 11 year old girl from Northern California.
00:29 Hallie's father, Nick Parker, owns a huge vineyard.
00:33 Hallie quickly befriends two girls at the camp.
00:36 Meanwhile, Annie is an 11 year old girl from London.
00:39 Annie's mother, Elizabeth James, is a famous wedding gown designer.
00:43 Annie's family butler, Martin, drops her at the camp.
00:46 They share an intricate handshake before parting ways.
00:49 Although Hallie and Annie have contrasting characters, they both look identical.
00:53 Annie is prim and proper, while Hallie is more carefree.
00:57 At the camp, the two girls go head to head in a fencing match, unaware of their uncanny
01:01 identicalness.
01:03 Both the girls are extremely gifted at fencing and give each other a good competition.
01:07 In the end, Annie triumphs and inadvertently pushes Hallie into the water with her last
01:12 move.
01:13 Annie quickly apologizes and offers her hand to Hallie.
01:16 However, Hallie takes her hand and pulls Annie into the water with her.
01:20 When the two girls take their fencing masks off, they are awestruck to learn that they
01:23 look identical.
01:24 Hallie quickly snaps out of it and insults Annie.
01:27 The two girls argue and almost get physical when the camp counselor breaks them up.
01:31 Later, the two little girls again butt heads over a game of poker.
01:36 Hallie proposes a punishment that whoever loses the game will have to jump in Moose
01:40 Lake naked.
01:41 Annie confidently accepts the challenge, but Hallie beats her with a royal flush.
01:45 Annie is then forced to jump in the lake, after which Hallie and her friends steal Annie's
01:49 clothes and run away.
01:51 When Annie learns that Hallie tricked her, she vows to take revenge.
01:55 The comical hostility between the two girls leads to a prank war that ends when the camp
01:59 counselors fall into one of Hallie's traps and isolate the twins from the other girls.
02:04 The two girls are told to pack their bags and sent to live together in the isolation
02:07 cabin as punishment.
02:09 The two girls continue to clash with each other.
02:11 However, they soon become close after Annie helps Hallie close the jammed window.
02:16 They tell each other about their homes and families.
02:19 Annie hasn't had a dad in her life since her dad and mother got divorced when she was
02:22 little, while Hallie doesn't have a mother and she lives with her dad.
02:26 After learning that the two also share the same birthday, Annie starts suspecting that
02:30 all of this can't be mere coincidence.
02:32 Annie and Hallie then show each other the only pictures of their father and mother that
02:36 they have.
02:37 It turns out each has half of a torn wedding photograph of their parents.
02:41 They realize Annie and Hallie are actual twin sisters.
02:44 They are elated by the discovery.
02:46 They tape their parents' half-torn picture back together and spend hours together learning
02:50 about their mother and father.
02:51 As the end of the summer camp approaches, they long to know more about their parents,
02:55 so Hallie then proposes an idea.
02:57 She suggests they switch places and go back home as one another.
03:01 Annie tells her that they will immediately get caught, but Hallie insists that they will
03:05 be able to pull it off as they both look identical and they can learn how to imitate each other.
03:09 Moreover, even if they get caught sooner or later, their parents will have to meet face
03:13 to face because of it.
03:15 The two girls then spend their remaining time at the camp learning and practicing each other's
03:19 mannerisms.
03:20 They learn about each other's house's blueprint.
03:22 Hallie learns Annie's intricate handshake, while Annie cuts her hair and gets her ears
03:26 pierced with a hot needle.
03:28 The summer camp comes to an end and the twins put their plan into action.
03:32 Hallie goes back to London as Annie.
03:34 She perfectly impersonates Annie, effortlessly imitating Annie's handshake and mannerisms
03:38 so much that Annie's butler Martin is not able to tell the difference.
03:43 Hallie is elated to meet her mother and maternal grandfather Charles for the first time.
03:47 She hugs them tightly, which surprises Elizabeth.
03:50 She tags along with Elizabeth to her work to spend more time with her.
03:54 At an opportune time, Hallie broaches the topic of her father, Nick.
03:58 She asks Elizabeth if she remembers him and how they met.
04:01 Elizabeth is surprised by the sudden curiosity, but tells Hallie about Nick.
04:05 She says that Nick was a lovely guy and they met aboard the Queen Elizabeth II, or QE2,
04:10 an ocean liner that sails from London to New York.
04:13 They were traveling on a ship because both Nick and Elizabeth weren't keen on flying.
04:17 They were seated next to each other for dinner on the first night of their voyage.
04:21 Meanwhile, Annie pretends to be Hallie and goes to California.
04:25 She's overjoyed to meet her father.
04:27 The little girl can't believe that she's talking to her father.
04:30 She even keeps calling him "Dad" in every other sentence due to excitement.
04:34 Annie is greeted at home by Hallie's lovely nanny Chessie and dog Sammy.
04:38 Chessie isn't able to tell the difference between Annie and Hallie, but Sammy seems
04:42 to have caught on to Annie's charade and keeps barking at her.
04:45 Annie's excitement soon subsides when she comes to know about Nick's new young fiancé,
04:50 Meredith Blake.
04:52 Nick and Meredith seem very into each other.
04:54 However, Chessie speculates that Meredith is only after Nick's money.
04:58 Annie herself grows to dislike Meredith after getting a feel of her selfish ways.
05:03 The next day, Nick finally asks Annie how she would feel if Meredith becomes a part
05:07 of their family.
05:08 Feigning her ignorance, Annie responds that she would love it.
05:11 She adds that she also wanted a big sister, and now Nick is about to adopt Meredith.
05:16 Burn!
05:18 But Nick quickly corrects her and reveals that he is actually going to marry Meredith.
05:23 Left with no choice and forced to acknowledge, Annie responds negatively and screams in French,
05:28 a language Hallie doesn't know.
05:30 Nick is surprised by her behavior, but Meredith assures him that it is normal and expected
05:34 of a child whose father is getting remarried.
05:36 Meredith then goes to talk to Annie.
05:38 She pretends to empathize with Annie, but Annie sees through Meredith's charade and
05:43 cuts her short.
05:44 Annie acknowledges that Meredith is young, beautiful, sexy, and perhaps that's what
05:48 attracts her dad.
05:49 After all, he's only human.
05:51 But she adds marriage should be more than just sex.
05:54 Seeing her charming strategy terribly fail on Annie, Meredith drops her pretense.
05:59 She candidly tells Annie that Nick and her are getting married in two weeks, whether
06:03 Annie likes it or not, and she needs to get over it.
06:06 Distressed by Meredith's deviousness, Annie telephones Hallie.
06:10 Annie tells her twin sister about their father's impending wedding.
06:13 Annie persuades her to bring Elizabeth to California to break up the engagement.
06:17 However, Charles catches Hallie on the phone.
06:20 Charles forces her to come clean to her mother immediately.
06:23 Hallie is scared, but she tells Elizabeth everything.
06:26 She apologizes to Elizabeth for deceiving her.
06:28 But instead of scolding the little girl, Elizabeth gets emotional and embraces her daughter.
06:33 Meanwhile, in California, Chessie too figures out that it's Annie and not Hallie there.
06:37 Soon, everyone finds out about it, except for Nick and Meredith, who remain unaware
06:42 of the switch.
06:43 Hallie convinces Elizabeth to fly to California to meet Nick and fix their relationship.
06:48 But she keeps Elizabeth in the dark about Nick's engagement and tells her that Nick
06:51 is eager to meet her.
06:52 Even after all these years, Elizabeth still seems to be in love with Nick.
06:57 Nervous about meeting him, Elizabeth asks Martin to accompany Hallie and her as a friend.
07:02 To bring Nick and Elizabeth together, Hallie, Annie, Chessie, Martin, and Charles conspire
07:07 to have them meet at a hotel in San Francisco.
07:10 Nick is scheduled to meet Meredith's parents at the same hotel.
07:14 Elizabeth runs into Nick with Meredith at the hotel elevator.
07:17 She gets suspicious and confronts her twin daughters.
07:20 The two girls come clean and reveal that Nick is engaged and getting married in two weeks.
07:25 Annie tells her mom that she can't let it happen, but Elizabeth, hurt, responds that
07:29 Nick and her have nothing in common anymore.
07:31 She then continues by saying that Nick seems to be happy with his fiancé.
07:35 Putting her foot down, Elizabeth adds that she will do what she came to do and will fly
07:39 back to London with Annie.
07:41 However, Nick is elated to have run into Elizabeth after so many years.
07:45 He looks for her throughout the hotel.
07:47 When he finally notices her, he accidentally falls in the pool in excitement.
07:52 Just as Nick breaks the ice between Elizabeth and him, Annie and Hallie arrive.
07:56 They come clean about the switch.
07:57 Although a bit taken aback by the revelation, Nick becomes overjoyed and emotional to see
08:02 his other daughter after 11 years.
08:05 Meredith too soon catches up with the development to her dismay.
08:08 Later that evening, the two girls give their parents a surprise.
08:12 It is a candlelit dinner served by Chessie and Martin on a yacht decorated to recreate
08:16 their first meeting aboard the Queen Elizabeth II.
08:20 Nick and Elizabeth reminisce about their past time spent together, both good and bad.
08:24 It is revealed that Elizabeth left Nick after they had a huge argument.
08:28 They were both young, stupid, and had bad tempers back then.
08:31 They said hurtful things to each other.
08:34 Elizabeth expresses slight sadness over Nick not following her after she left.
08:38 Nick responds that he was not sure if Elizabeth wanted him to.
08:41 They finally make plans for the girls to spend holidays together, but decide against resuming
08:45 their relationship.
08:46 Dismayed, but determined, Hallie and Annie vow not to leave each other.
08:50 The two girls hatch a plan.
08:52 The next day, they wear similar dresses to confuse their parents and refuse to reveal
08:56 which twin is which.
08:57 As Elizabeth gets ready to leave for London, the twin girls put forth a condition where
09:01 the four of them would have to go on a camping trip, only after which will they reveal their
09:05 identity.
09:06 Initially reluctant, Nick and Elizabeth finally agree to take them on the camping trip.
09:11 As expected, Meredith isn't happy with the trip and insists on tagging along.
09:16 Despite Nick being hesitant, Elizabeth invites Meredith to go camping with Nick and the girls
09:20 while she waits behind at the Parker residence.
09:23 The four then take off and start hiking.
09:25 Meredith isn't used to the altitude and soon gets tired.
09:28 The girls take advantage of that and play various tricks on Meredith.
09:32 When she stops to take a rest, they put heavy stones in her backpack and scare her with
09:36 a lizard.
09:37 Meredith had a hard time carrying her bags, and the two girls offer to help her.
09:41 Meredith rudely declines and says that she sees through the two girls' angelic faces.
09:45 She threatens to make their lives miserable after she gets married to their dad if they
09:49 play one more trick on her, but the girls continue to prank her.
09:53 At night, Meredith, who is tired of hiking and dealing with the two sisters, plants a
09:57 long kiss on Nick before taking a sleeping pill and going to bed early.
10:01 Later, after Nick goes to sleep, Annie and Hallie drag an asleep Meredith with her inflatable
10:06 airbed into the lake.
10:08 Meredith wakes up the next morning in the middle of the lake by a bird.
10:11 She freaks out and falls into the water.
10:14 Meredith finally loses her patience and angrily gives Nick an ultimatum to choose between
10:18 her or his daughters.
10:20 Nick finally realizes Meredith's bad attitude and gets to know that his daughters won't
10:24 be fine with her.
10:25 Hence, he chooses the girls over Meredith, without thinking much, and breaks off the
10:29 engagement.
10:30 Although Annie and Hallie are both punished for their shenanigans, they accept it as they
10:34 got rid of Meredith for good.
10:36 Elizabeth apologizes to Nick for inviting Meredith on the trip and breaking their engagement.
10:40 Nick jokingly responds that he knows that Elizabeth deliberately tricked Meredith into
10:44 going camping with Hallie and Annie.
10:46 Later that night, after putting the girls to bed, Nick shows Elizabeth his wine collection.
10:51 It includes a 1983 wine that they drank at their wedding.
10:54 Elizabeth gets emotional but tries to put on a strong face.
10:57 Nick tells her that she doesn't always have to be brave.
11:00 They get drawn to almost kiss, but Elizabeth holds back.
11:04 She is almost in tears by the encounter, but decides to ignore it.
11:07 A hesitant Nick then puts the wine back.
11:09 Later, the four of them are saying their emotional goodbyes as they hug each other.
11:14 Elizabeth then returns to London with Annie as the rain pours down.
11:18 Annie is dejected after being separated from her sister and father again.
11:22 However, when Annie and Elizabeth get home, they find Hallie and Nick waiting for them.
11:26 Nick and Hallie flew to London on the Concorde, which cuts travel time by half compared to
11:31 general passenger planes.
11:32 They explain that they had realized they didn't want to lose Annie and Elizabeth again.
11:36 Nick tells Elizabeth that he made the mistake of not coming after her once, and he is not
11:40 going to make that mistake again.
11:42 Elizabeth is fearful of remarrying, but she yields to Nick's unwavering confidence, and
11:47 Hallie and Annie look on happily as their parents embrace.
11:50 The ending shows Nick and Elizabeth getting remarried aboard the QE2 with the girls as
11:55 bridesmaids.
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