The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap may refer to: The Parent Trap (film series) The Parent Trap (1961 film), starring Hayley Mills, the first film in the series "The Parent Trap" (song), the title song from the 1961 film The Parent Trap (1998 film), remake of the 1961 film starring Lindsay Lohan "The Parent Trap", a 1996 episode of Ellen

Production: Buena Vista Distribution Company
  Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 6 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
G
Year:
1961
129
1,508 Views

Mitch Evers:
Ah Maggie, you're so beautiful.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
[to brush it off] Ah...

Mitch Evers:
No I mean it! I know I don't say things like you want to hear, but I've been thinking a lot about you, and us, and the way things used to be... this might sound funny to you but you know what I've missed most of all?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Mitch?

Mitch Evers:
What?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
You've got stew all over you.

Mitch Evers:
I don't care.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Go and wash it off. [pause] What do you miss?

Mitch Evers:
Well, I don't care if it does sound silly; I miss those wet stockings you used to have hanging around the bathroom, and I miss my razor being dull because you used it to shave your legs with. And I miss the hairpins mixed up with the fish hooks in my tackle box... it's no fun having a clothes closet all to myself. And it's no fun swearing because you're not around to make believe you're shocked by it. Well, nothing's any good without you Maggie, I miss a lot of things... I guess I just miss you!

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Why did you take so long to tell me?

Mitch Evers:
I don't know... Well because, cause I guess I was hoping that you'd come back sometime. Maggie, I've been the prize chump of the world. We've both been. We're going to grow into a couple of old lonely people if we don't do something about it.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
I know.

Mitch Evers:
You don't want that, do you?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
No Mitch. [they kiss] Oh Mitch, it's been so long... so very long.

Mitch Evers:
Don't cry. Listen, you can slug me in the eye anytime you want.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Ok!

Susan Evers:
How old are you?

Sharon McKendrick:
Thirteen.

Susan Evers:
So am I. I can't wait till I'm eighteen and get my own car and stay out dancing till midnight.

Sharon McKendrick:
I'll be fourteen November 12th.

Susan Evers:
No kiddin'? That's my birthday too.

Sharon McKendrick:
Isn't that peculiar? November 12th?

Susan Evers:
Um huh. Funny, isn't it?

Susan Evers:
[Gets up off the bed] Uh oh. This one's full. [Looking around] Hey! What do ya know? It's stopped raining.

Sharon McKendrick:
[Both outside sitting on the step] What is your mother like?

Susan Evers:
I can't remember her.

Sharon McKendrick:
Did she die?

Susan Evers:
Nope. Busted up with Dad when I was young. But she was fabulous. Absolutely fabulous!

Sharon McKendrick:
How do you know?

Susan Evers:
There used to be a picture of her on Daddy's desk. But once he caught me looking at it and it's never been around since. Hey! You wanna come to the commissary and get a popsicle with me?

Sharon McKendrick:
Can you only think about your stomach at a time like this?

Susan Evers:
At a time like what?

Sharon McKendrick:
Don't you feel it? Don't you know what's happening? Don't you find it peculiar that we both look so much alike, and have the same birthday?

Susan Evers:
It's just one of those things. Isn't it?

Sharon McKendrick:
Will you come inside a minute? Please?

Sharon McKendrick:
[Back inside] Mother always says I'm psychic. You know, that I can sense things when something odd is going to happen. I always get goosebumps. Look.

Susan Evers:
So what?

[Sharon reveals the picture of her mother]

Susan Evers:
I don't understand. What are you doing with her picture?

Sharon McKendrick:
It's my mother.

Susan Evers:
But it's my mother too.

[Grandmother rattles off the day's schedule at the breakfast table]

Susan Evers:
[as Sharon] I don't think I'll be able to do any of those today.

Grandmother:
[surprised] What did you say?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Sharon! You interrupted your grandmother.

Susan Evers:
Well I have something important to tell you. [emphatically] Mother, I think what you and Daddy did to us children is lousy! In fact, I think it stinks!

Grandmother:
Sharon!

Susan Evers:
[approaching Grandmother] And let's get this straight, I'm not Sharon, I'm Susan. [facing her mother] Sharon, your Sharon, is out in California with Daddy.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
But it's impossible!

Grandmother:
You can't be Susan.

Susan Evers:
But I AM Susan. Sharon and I met at camp, so we decided to switch places. She bit off her fingernails and I cut her hair, and now she's out in California with Dad, swimming and riding my horse and having a KEEN time and I'm stuck here with these lousy music lessons and I HATE them!

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
[staring as if too good to be true] Susan!

Susan Evers:
Oh I'm sorry, Mother. But I wanted to see you, and I missed not having a mother. I love you very much, and I wondered, if you could love me as me and not as Sharon. Please?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Oh Susan! [she hugs Susan] Oh my darling. Why didn't you let me know? Why didn't you tell me?

Susan Evers:
I couldn't help it. I mean, I wanted to be near you and to know what it was like to have a mother and everything.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Oh, Baby. [they hug again]

Grandmother:
[getting up and hugging Susan] Susan, darling! Let me look at you. [to Maggie] She's EXACTLY ...

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
I know, I can't believe it.

[Maggie, Susan and Verbena enter the house]

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Oh, it was just wonderful!

Sharon McKendrick:
[coming down the stairs] Mother! Oh, I'm so glad you came! [Sharon and Maggie hug] Oh! You look wonderful! What'd you do to yourself?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Do you like it?

Sharon McKendrick:
Oh, I love it!

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Oh darling! [Maggie hugs Sharon again] Oh! Finally! Both of you together at last. What do you think of each other?

Sharon McKendrick:
Fine.

Susan Evers:
We love each other!

Sharon McKendrick:
Hi, Sue.

Susan Evers:
Hi.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
[Addressing Sharon] Oh and just look at you! That short hair.

Susan Evers:
I cut it, Mother.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
You know, I like it.

Sharon McKendrick:
Oh, and I love yours, Mother.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Where's your father?

Sharon McKendrick:
Oh, he's out somewhere on a horse.

Susan Evers:
[to Sharon] Are we in time?

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
[to Susan] Time?

Sharon McKendrick:
[to Susan] Didn't you tell her? [Susan shakes her head, no]

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Tell me what?

Susan Evers:
Well ...

Sharon McKendrick:
Dad's getting married.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Well. When is all this taking place?

Verbena:
Saturday, supposedly. [Maggie looks away, anxiously]

Sharon McKendrick:
She just sort of infiltrated, Mother. And before you knew it, Dad was hooked.

Verbena:
If you ask me, Mr. Evers is slipping into his second childhood.

Margaret 'Maggie' McKendrick:
Oh your father is old enough to know what he's doing. Shall we go upstairs and get unpacked? I'm just dying to get into a hot shower after that long plane trip.

[Chatter as they all move up the stairs]


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