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I've only seen the early 60s version of "The Parent Trap", by the way, the one in which the twins' names are Sharon and Susan.

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That movie has always APPALLED me. It's some sort of light-hearted comedy, in which the parents are portrayed as though they are nice, decent people and good parents, but what they did is APPALLING. They have identical twins, they split up when the twins are toddlers, each takes one twin, they don't tell either twin that she has a twin sister, and neither parent shows the slightest interest in seeing the twin they didn't get custody of until forced to by the twins' switching places. *Who in their right mind would do this?* If my parents did this to me, I'd need years of therapy. But apart from one throwaway line, "I think what you did to us children is terrible", this is not treated as the horrible, highly dysfunctional thing that it is and everything ends happily when the nice, decent, wonderful parents are reunited. Yeesh.