September 9, 1998

The Parent Trap (1998) ***

This is a very rare case of a remake being exactly as good as the original. The story premise - twin sisters separated in infancy, never told about each other by their parents, accidently meeting after 11 years - might seem weird. But we have to remember it's based on an Erich Kastner novel written in... Nazi Germany. Family values were obviously quite different back then.