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Philip Sledge

I Watched The Parent Trap For The First Time As A Dad, And There's One Thing That Just Doesn't Make Any Sense

Lindsey Lohan in The Parent Trap.

Whenever my wife, kids, and I have a free Friday night, we like to sit down as a family and watch a classic movie. We get the living room all comfy and grab a variety of snacks to enjoy while we take in that night’s feature presentation. Last weekend, we chose The Parent Trap (1998 remake starring Lindsay Lohan), a movie neither my wife nor I had watched since we were kids. It was fun, but there was something that bugged up. Like, a lot!

This is not me breaking down the various plotholes or things that don’t make sense about the summer camp sequence. Nor is it me not being able to figure out how the girls were able to master English and American accents in such a short period of time. Instead, it has to deal with the whole arrangement the girls’ parents made years earlier. You know, the whole splitting everything in the divorce arrangement…

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