Quotes
 Hallie: You wanna know the *real* difference between us?
Annie: Let me see... I know how to fence and you don`t... Or I have class and you don`t. Take your pick.
Hallie: Why I oughta! Hallie: I have a brilliant beyond brilliant idea!
Annie as Hallie: I know what mystery my father sees in you.
Meredith Blake: You do?
Annie as Hallie: You`re young, beautiful, sexy, and hey the guy is only human, but if you ask me marriage is supposed to be based on more then just sex, right?
Annie: That girl is without a doubt, the lowest, most awful creature to ever walk the planet!
Hallie: [watching from outside] Thank you, thank you very much.
Annie: [Hallie just finished cutting Annie`s hair to look like hers] This is so scary.
Hallie: Honey you never looked better.
Grandpa Charles James: [Annie smells him] What are you doing?
Hallie as Annie: Making a memory! Years from now when I`m all grown up I`ll always remember my grandfather and how he always smelled of
[smells him again]
Hallie as Annie: peppermint and pipe tobacco.
Hallie as Annie: [crying, seeing her mother for the first time] I`m sorry, it`s just I`ve missed you so much.
Elizabeth James: I know, it seems like it`s been forever.
Hallie as Annie: You have no idea.
Annie as Hallie: [after a discussion about how Annie as Hallie seems different to Chessy] Chessy, I changed a lot over the summer, that`s all.
Chessy, the Parker`s Maid: OK, boy if I didn`t know any better I`d say it`s almost like you were... forget it, it`s impossible.
Annie as Hallie: Almost if I were who, Chessy?
Chessy, the Parker`s Maid: Nobody, nobody, forget I mentioned it.
Annie as Hallie: Almost if I were... Annie?
Chessy, the Parker`s Maid: You know about Annie?
Annie as Hallie: [dropping her "Hallie" accent] I... am Annie.
Hallie as Annie: His and hers kids. No offense, Mom, but this arrangement really sucks.
Elizabeth James: I agree, it totally sucks.
Annie: [Hallie is getting ready to cut Annie`s hair] Don`t shut YOUR eyes!
Hallie: Okay, sorry. Got a little nervous!
Annie: YOU`RE nervous? An 11 year-old is cutting my hair!
Hallie: Hey, you sounded just like me!
Annie: Well, I`m supposed to, aren`t I?
[last lines]
Hallie: We actually did it!
Martin, the James` Butler: Shall we review your mother`s list?
Annie: Mm-hmm.
Martin, the James` Butler: Now, let`s see. Vitamins?
Annie: Check.
Martin, the James` Butler: Minerals?
Annie: Check.
Martin, the James` Butler: List of daily fruits and vegetables?
Annie: Check, check.
[Martin glances at Annie]
Annie: Check for fruits, check for vegetables. Go on.
Martin, the James` Butler: Sunblock, lip balm, insect repellent, stationery, stamps, photographs of your mother, grandfather, and of course, your trusty butler, me.
Annie: Got it all, I think.
Martin, the James` Butler: Oh, and here`s a little something from your grandfather.
[Holds up a deck of cards]
Martin, the James` Butler: Spanking new deck of cards. Maybe you`ll actually find someone on this continent who can whip your tush at poker.
Annie: Well, I doubt it, but thanks, Martin.
Hallie: [playing poker with Annie at camp] I`ll tell you what. I`ll make you a little deal. Loser jumps into the lake after the game.
Annie: Excellent.
Hallie: Butt naked.
Annie: Even more excellent. Start unzipping Parker. Straight, in diamonds.
Hallie: You`re good James, but, you`re just not good enough. In your honor, a royal flush.
Meredith Blake: You know, the way your father described you, I expected a little girl, but you are so grown-up.
Annie as Hallie: I`ll be twelve soon. How old are you?
Meredith Blake: Twenty-six.
Annie as Hallie: Only fifteen years older than me! How old are you again, Dad?
Nick Parker: Wow, suddenly you`re so interested in math!
Annie: Any of your pictures ruined?
Hallie: Only the beautiful Leo DiCaprio...
Annie: Who?
Hallie: You`ve never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio? How far away is London anyway?
Meredith Blake: The day we get married is the day I ship those brats off to Switzerland, get the picture? It`s me, or them. Take your pick.
Nick Parker: Them.
Meredith Blake: Excuse me?
Nick Parker: T-H-E-M. Them. Get the picture?
Nick Parker: [hiking] I`m going to take the lead. You two help Meredith.
Meredith Blake: [looks at the girls] Sure you`ll help me. Right over a cliff you`ll help me.
Hallie: [whispering to Annie] Not a bad idea.
Annie: Yeah, see any cliffs?
Marva Kulp, Sr.: Excuse me, girls. I just got to have a sculp of these gorgeous strawberries. Would you care for some dear?
Hallie: Oh, no thanks, can`t. I`m allergic.
Marva Kulp, Sr.: Oh, that`s too bad. How about you, dear, strawberries?
Annie: Oh sorry I wish I could, but I can`t, I`m allergic.
Marva Kulp, Sr.: Yes, you just told me that over here. How`d you get over there? Well, first day at camp you`ll have to excuse the old girl.
[Annie walks away]
Marva Kulp, Sr.: At least I`m not putting salt in the sugar shakers. Well, actually sugar in the salt shakers, but... now where did she get off to?
Annie: Need a hand, Mer?
Meredith Blake: Not from you, thank you. Don`t think I can see past those angelic faces. One more trick from you two, and I promise I`ll make your lives miserable from the day I say "I do." Got it?
Hallie: Got it, Cruella.
Meredith Blake: What did you call me?
Hallie: Nothing. Nothing. Not a thing, Cruella. Oh, by the way, Mer. I think there`s something on your head.
[the lizard is on her head]
Nick Parker: You know, I may never be alone with you again. So about that day you packed, why`d you do it?
Elizabeth James: Oh, Nick. We were so young. We both had tempers, we said stupid things so I packed. Got on my very first 747, and you didn`t come after me.
Nick Parker: I didn`t know that you wanted me to.
Elizabeth James: Well, that really doesn`t matter anymore. So, let`s put on a good face for the girls and get the show on the road, huh?
Nick Parker: Yeah, sure. Let`s get the show on the road.
Meredith Blake: First change I make is to send that two-faced little brat off to boarding school in Timbuktu.
Richard, Meredith`s Assistant: Oof, Ice Woman!
Meredith Blake: Proud of it, babe!
Nick Parker: [after explaining to Elizabeth why they returned early from the camping trip] So, where`s Chessie? I`m starving.
Elizabeth James: Well, she and Martin went off to a picnic around noon. Yesterday.
Nick Parker: [Impersonating Cary Grant] Really. Who would have thought. My nanny, your butler.
Elizabeth James: [thinking she is talking to her father, who has a newspaper up between them] Hello, you!
Hallie: [puts down newspaper. then] Hey Mom, did you know that the Concorde gets you here in half the time?
Elizabeth James: [flustered] Yes, I, I`ve heard that...
Annie: [after Hallie surprises Elizabeth and Annie by arriving in London and showing up at their home before Elizabeth and Annie do] What are you doing here?
Hallie: It took us abound 30 seconds after you guys left for us to realize we didn`t want to lose you two again.
Elizabeth James: We?
Nick Parker: [walking in from another room] We. I made the mistake of not coming after you once, Lizzie. I`m not going to do that again no matter how brave you are.
Elizabeth James: And I suppose you just expect me to go weak at the knees, and fall into your arms and cry hysterically. And say we`ll just figure this whole thing out. A bi-continental relationship with our daughters being raised here and there. And. And, you and I just picking up where we left off and growing old together. And. And. C`mon Nick what do you expect? To live happily ever after?
Nick Parker: Yes. To all of the above. Except you don`t have to cry hysterically.
Elizabeth James: [With tears in her eyes] Oh, yes I do.
[he kisses her]
Nick Parker: You know, sometime if we`re ever really alone maybe we could talk about what happened between us. You know it`s all a bit hazy to me now. It ended so fast.
Elizabeth James: It started so fast.
Nick Parker: Well, that part I remember perfectly.
Elizabeth James: [after the limo pulls up to the end of an empty pier and everyone gets out] Where are we?
Nick Parker: This is where we`re eating?
Hallie: [Pointing to a 100+ foot yacht] No. Actually that`s where we`re eating.
Annie: She`s ours for the night.
Nick Parker: Wow. So, how exactly are we paying for this?
Annie: Well, we pooled our allowances.
Nick Parker: Yeah. Right. Annie?
Annie: Okay. Grandfather chipped in a bit.
Elizabeth James: Annie!
Annie: Okay. He chipped in a lot.
Hallie as Annie: Seeing all these wedding dresses, doesn`t it make you think about the "f" word?
Elizabeth James: The "f" word?
Hallie as Annie: My father!
Elizabeth James: [Hallie, as Annie, is underneath Elizabeth`s covers struggling to tell her about the switch] Annie!
Hallie as Annie: That`s where I have to go! I have to go see Annie!
Elizabeth James: Oh, I see, and where might Annie be?
Hallie as Annie: In Napa, with her father Nick Parker.
Elizabeth James: You`re not Annie?
Elizabeth James: That would be correct.
Elizabeth James: You`re Hallie?
Hallie as Annie: I am. Annie and I met up at camp and, and we decided to switch places. I`m sorry, but I`ve never seen you and I`ve dreamt of meeting you my whole life and Annie felt the exact same way about Dad so, so we sort of just switched lives. I hope you`re not mad because I love you so much, and I just hope that one day you could love me as me, and not as Annie.
Elizabeth James: Oh darling, I`ve loved you your whole life.
Martin, the James` Butler: [sobbing] I`ve never been so happy in my entire life.
Annie: [Elizabeth and Hallie have arrived at the hotel to meet Nick and Elizabeth is drunk and Annie see her] She`s drunk! She`s never had more than one glass of wine her entire life and she chooses today to show up totally zonked!
Elizabeth James: [walking down the hall in the hotel] Hallie Parker!
[both girls exit from rooms across the hall from each other]
Elizabeth James: Oh, don`t do this to me. I`m already seeing double.
Hallie: Oh my God.
Annie: What?
Hallie: I have pierced ears.
Annie: No, no and no. Not happening. Sorry, wrong number. I won`t. I refuse.
Hallie: Then cutting your hair was a total waste. There`s no way I can go to camp with pierced ears and come home without them. I mean, come on. Get real.
Nick Parker: I told Hallie.
Meredith Blake: You did? And?
Nick Parker: She went ballistic. She started yelling in French. I didn`t even know she spoke French.
Hallie: [takes out a box of Oreos] Want one?
Annie: Oh, sure. I love Oreos. At home, I eat them with... I eat with peanut butter.
Hallie: You do? That is so weird.
[takes out a jar of peanut butter]
Hallie: So do I.
Annie: You`re kidding? Most people find that totally disgusting.
Hallie: I know. I don`t get it.
Annie: Me either.
Chessy, the Parker`s Maid: [just found out that the girls switched places and is crying] Can I hug her?
Nick Parker: Hal, we gotta talk.
Annie as Hallie: Okay shoot.
Nick Parker: Honey, look... I want to know what you think about making Meredith part of the family?
Annie as Hallie: Part of our family?
Nick Parker: Yes.
Annie as Hallie: I think it`s an awesome idea. Inspired. Brilliant really.
Nick Parker: You do?
Annie as Hallie: Totally, it`s like a dream come true. I`ve always wanted a big sister.
Nick Parker: Honey, I`m afraid you`re kind of missing the point.
Annie as Hallie: No, I`m not. You`re gonna adopt Meredith. That is so sweet, Dad.
Nick Parker: I`m not going to adopt her. I`m going to MARRY her.
Annie as Hallie: [leaps from her spot] Marry her? That`s insane! How can you marry a woman young enough to be my big sister?
[she begins to rant, accidentally yelling in French]
Nick Parker: Hal, Hal, Hal.
[realizes]
Nick Parker: We`re you speaking French?
Annie as Hallie: Oh... I learned it at camp.
[takes a breath]
Nick Parker: Man, what has gotten into you?
Annie as Hallie: Nothing! It`s just... just... Dad, you can`t get married! It`ll totally ruin completely everything!
[she runs from the house]
Nick Parker: Hal!
[he looks to Chessy]
Chessy, the Parker`s Maid: Don`t look at me. I don`t know a thing.
[she closes the windows]
Annie: Hallie, what was your mother like?
Hallie: I never met her. She and my Dad split up when I was a baby, maybe even before, I`m not sure. He doesn`t really like to talk about her... but I know she was really beautiful.
Annie: How do you know that?
Hallie: Because my dad had this old picture of her hidden in his sock drawer and he caught me looking at it all the time so he gave it to me to keep. I`m really thirsty, you sure you don`t want to go to the canteen and get something to drink?
Annie: Will you stop thinking about your stomach at a time like this!
Hallie: At a time like what?
Annie: [as she and Hallie step back into the cabin] Don`t you realize what`s happening? Oh man, this is beyond coincidence, this is beyond imagination! I only have a mother, and you only have a father... You`ve never seen your Mom, and I`ve never seen my Dad. You have one old picture of your Mom, I have one old picture of my Dad but at least yours is probably a whole picture.
[Hallie races over to her trunk]
Annie: Mine`s a pathetic little thing, ripped right down the middle... What are you rummaging in your trunk for this time?
Hallie: [she finally faces Annie as she hold a picture to her chest] This. It`s the picture of my Mom. And it`s ripped too.
Annie: [knowing] Right down the middle?
Hallie: [nervously] Right down the middle.
Annie: [races over to her trunk and takes out a photo and holds it to her chest] This is so freaky. Okay. On the count of three, we`ll show them to each other, okay?
Hallie: Okay.
Annie: One...
Hallie: Two...
Annie: [together with Hallie] Three!
[they both gasp as they place the photo together and realize... ]
Hallie: That`s my Dad...
Annie: That`s my Mom...
[she hears the bell]
Annie: That`s the lunch bell.
Hallie: [as she wipes away her tears] I`m not so hungry anymore. So if your Mom is my Mom and my Dad is your Dad... and we`re both born on October 11th, then you and I are... like... sisters.
Annie: Sisters? Hallie, we`re like twins!
Hallie: Oh my god!
Annie: Oh my god!
[they hug]
Annie: This is Martin, our butler
Hallie: [in shock] We have a butler?
Martin, the James` Butler: I found a stowaway in your suitcase.
[holds up Cuppy]
Hallie as Annie: [whispering] Oh my God. Cuppy.
[Hallie is trying to convince Annie the proposed switch will work]
Hallie: Look, I can do you already.
[Hallie pulls her hair back and adopts a British accent]
Hallie: "Yes, you want to know the real difference between us? I have class and you don`t." Come on, Anne. I gotta meet my ma.
[arranges her expression into a pout]
Elizabeth James: [having drink with Meredith] Here`s to... here`s to you. May your life be far less complicated than mine.
Meredith Blake: Why thank you.
Annie: Okay, this is Grandfather...
Hallie: He`s so cute! What do we call him?
Annie: Grandfather...
Hallie: Why didn`t I think of that?...
Nick Parker: [about Meredith on the camping trip] I`m not marrying her because she`s Annie Oakley.
Hallie: Who`s Annie Oakley?
Vicki Blake - Meredith`s Mother: Hello, pet! You may call me Aunt Vicki!
Trivia
Meredith is heard talking on the cell phone to a "Reverend Mosby," a reference to a character in the original The Parent Trap (1961).
Lindsay Lohan can be heard singing "Let`s Get Together" as she walks into the elevator at the Stafford Hotel. This song is from the 1961 original. Similarly, the first few notes of "Let`s Get Together" are played as the closing notes of music at the tail of the end credits.
Lindsay Lohan`s first movie.
The twins in this version are named after the daughters of director Nancy Meyers` and producer Charles Shyer, Annie Meyers-Shyer and Hallie Meyers-Shyer, both of whom have small parts in the movie. Hallie plays a girl at camp at the beginning who asks where the Navajo bunk is, and Annie plays the towel girl at the hotel who brings Elizabeth the first aid kit. The character whom Hallie Meyers-Shyer plays, conversely, is named Lindsay, after Lindsay Lohan, the actress who plays Hallie and Annie.
Actress Joanna Barnes played the "wicked girlfriend" in The Parent Trap (1961) and plays the mother of the wicked girlfriend in this version. Both characters are named Vicky.
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# Marva Kulp Sr. and Jr., the camp counselors, are named in tribute to Nancy Kulp, who played the younger of the camp counselors in the original The Parent Trap (1961).
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# After Hallie arrives in London, her mother takes her to a photo shoot. Above this, we hear a cover version of "Here Comes The Sun" by The Beatles, one of the songs on their album "Abbey Road". As we watch Hallie and her mother on her way, they cross the same street the same way as The Beatles did for the cover photo of the album "Abbey Road". Even the cars on the side are the same.
The lost boy who shows up at the girls camp is played by Michael Lohan, Lindsay Lohan`s real-life brother. Lindsay`s siblings regularly appear as extras in her movies.
When Hallie arrives in London and meets Martin at the airport, at the point where the two begin their greeting, you can see Lindsay Lohan`s mother holding her brother Dakota Lohan, and beside her is Lindsay`s other brother Michael Lohan and sister Ali Lohan.
Writer and director Nancy Meyers handpicked Lindsay Lohan to play the dual role of the twins in the film, and phoned the Lohan household herself to inform the actress that she had landed the part.
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# Michelle Trachtenberg was considered for the role(s) of the twins. Coincidentally, the actress`s birthday falls on 11th October, the same day as Hallie and Annie`s in the film.
The man who weds the parents at the beginning is played by Director of Photography, Dean Cundey.
The scene where Annie and Hallie are lying in bed and the camera pans from the moon, to the parents` picture, to the twins took six hours to get it right. Lindsay Lohan` had to change from Annie to Hallie, and back all the time.
From the opening of the film we find out that the parents were married on 8 January 1986. Nicholas Parker was 24 and Elizabeth James was 23. Elizabeth`s occupation is listed as artist, while Nick`s is listed as Viticulturist.
Annie makes a call to `Mildred Plotka`, a reference to the 1964 movie.
We learn that Camp Walden is in Maine from seeing the State Flag from Maine as it is going up in the morning and also when it comes down in the rain storm. Also in the scene where Hallie and friends are rigging Annie`s room, you see them using vegetable oil from Hannaford Bros, and Great Lost Bear chocolate sauce. Both are local Maine brands.
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# The name of the hotel, The Stafford, is a reference to the name of a boy in the original The Parent Trap (1961). He is the boy Hayley Mills` character, Susan, is talking to at the camp dance.
The reaction of Nick Parker (Dennis Quaid`s character) reaction to seeing Elizabeth (Natasha Richardson`s character) for the first time in 11 years is identical to James Garner`s character`s reaction in Move Over, Darling (1963) upon seeing his missing wife after 5 years. In both films, the man is on an elevator with his current partner and leans over in disbelief as the door closes. James Garner`s character in Move Over, Darling (1963) is also named Nick. James Garner actually copied the move in the elevator from Cary Grant who did the same thing in the movie My Favorite Wife (1940). When Cary Grant entered the elevator with his new bride Gail Patrick he was shocked to see his first wife Irene Dunne who after seven years had been declared missing at sea and presumed dead that very morning. Move Over Darling is a remake of My Favorite Wife.
Camp Walden is based on an existing camp for Girls Denmark Maine. There is no Isolation Cabin.
When this movie was shown on Disney Channel, the scenes where Hallie pierces Annie`s ears, when Annie (Hallie) takes a sip of the wine, and when Annie rides the plane to London are cut.
In casting the dual role of twins Hallie and Annie, director Nancy Meyers kept saying, "I`m looking for a little Diane Keaton... Diane is so alive on screen and that`s what I wanted from the actress in these parts."
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# To find the actress who would play Hallie and Annie, an exhaustive casting search was conducted in Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Miami, Vancouver, Toronto, and London, with open calls in New York and Los Angeles. Eventually 11-year-old Long Island native Lindsay Lohan was given the role.
The name Meredith Blake is a reference to a male character in "Five Little Pigs", a story written by Agatha Christie. An adaption of that story was produced for the TV series "Agatha Christie: Poirot" (1989).
The music underscoring the girls` march to the "isolation cabin" was originally used in The Great Escape (1963), scored by Elmer Bernstein.
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Dennis Quaid
(as Nick Parker)
with Natasha Richardson
(as Elizabeth James)
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