The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap (1998) is a Walt Disney Pictures family comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Director Nancy Meyers reworked the studio's 1961 classic — itself drawn from Erich Kästner's 1949 novel — and handed both lead roles to twelve-year-old Lindsay Lohan in her screen debut. Dennis Quaid plays a Napa Valley vineyard owner, Natasha Richardson a London wedding-dress designer.

Hallie grew up in sunny California knowing only her dad. Annie spent her childhood in London with her mum. Neither knew the other existed. One summer camp, one bunk assignment, and the whole plan clicks into place: swap lives, fly across the Atlantic, and push their oblivious parents back together before Dad's sharp-elbowed fiancée (Elaine Hendrix) makes things permanent.

Cinematographer Dean Cundy used split-screen techniques and acting double Erin Mackey to put Lohan opposite herself in scene after scene — a seamless technical trick that still holds up. Made for $15 million, the film earned over $92 million worldwide. Stream The Parent Trap (1998) online on iFILM.