Talk:The Parent Trap (1998 film)

Discrepancy?
I was just looking over this page after I looked over the Lindsay Lohan page and it seems there is a discrepancy in how well the movie did at the boxoffice. This page says:
 * The movie did poorly, sliding down the box office charts nearly every week since entering on number 2 on 31 July, 1998. It made a modest U.S. gross of just over $66 million.

The Lohan page says:
 * The Parent Trap did well at the box office, bringing in US$92 million worldwide.

They are totally different, both in number and in attitude. I hope that someone with legitamate sources can fix this before someone else sees it, as who knows how long this has been here! -- Jared  [T]/[+ ] 20:33, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Opinion over fact?
In the trivia section of this page, the penultimate bullet points notes that it is 'strange' that Hallie and Annie's grandfather is aware of what Thanksgiving is, given that it 'is celebrated in America and not England.' While that's true, surely that's rather patronising to British people, and is only the writer's opinion? I live in England, and can assure you that most Brits know exactly what Thanksgiving is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.3.220.51 (talk) 20:58, 16 April 2007 (UTC).

Trivia problem
I noticed someone put something about Lohan doing a nude scene. I didn't think it should be in there, and deleted it. If you want to put it back, please discuss it on the talk page before, or I will delete it again. And please use correct grammar. Metakraid 00:31, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I think they're probably referring to Lindsay jumping in the lake at night without any clothes on scene. I seem to recall she wore some sort of leotard and that they had to heat the water around her, but my memory is vague on this.  But yeah, it would be Lindsay's first "nude scene" in a movie (LOL).  108.237.241.88 (talk) 12:52, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Box at foot
I have reduced the box at the foot. Apart from the articles for the five movies - what does this add ? Most entries were red links, and the rest either link to irrelevant articles or redirect back to the movie. -- Beardo 15:55, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Camp
Wasn't the camp named Camp Walden? Wouldn't this be a more likely basis for the camp than one in North Carolina

http://www.campwalden.com/

--Flyingember 04:33, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

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Plot Summary
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The plot summary in this article seems a bit too long and intricate. Example: The sentence where its stated that its unknown how the parental couple disbanded, then says that they separated due to Nick not following Elizabeth onto the plane. It seems a bit contradictive and redundant (if that makes sense). Long Away May (talk) 03:34, 28 December 2007 (UTC) hi! everybody —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.244.98.3 (talk) 05:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Awards
In the article, it states the remake won three Academy Awards. This is absolutely not true. It wasn't even nominated for any Oscars... Nonpoint74 (talk) 21:45, 9 April 2009 (UTC)

Deleted Scenes
Photos from the continuity books confirm that the 'shower' scene and the extended 'ear piercing' scene did indeed take place. What's not known is if they were completed and edited.

Also some type of scene took place in a gym with the twins in training gear and with boxing gloves on. Each wore the same outfit with one black/gold and they other reversed in gold/black. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mmcollectibles (talk • contribs) 01:09, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Three Smart Girls
Parent Trap is derived from a 1936 Deanna Durbin movie called Three Smart Girls. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.130.68.12 (talk) 11:37, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
 * There is no mention of this in the credits of the movie. I suggest that if this fact is based on fact and not just opinion, the fact that the movie is not credited at all, be added to the relative opening sentence. Dollvalley (talk) 01:39, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Even though the article on the 1936 movie does state a similar storyline to The Parent Trap (the kids stopping their father from remarrying), whether it is a basis of David Swift's screenplay is, in my opinion, conjecture unless a reliable secondary source has stated that it has indeed influenced Swift's writing the storyline. In that regard, I have tagged the sentence in the article's lead that it needs to be sourced. MPFitz1968 (talk) 07:19, 3 September 2014 (UTC)

Use of exotic wildlife
In the scene during the campout, where the wannabe stepmother, Meredith, wakes up in mid-lake, a bird swoops in and lands on her body. Unlikely as such a happening might be, the bird can also be identified as a Red-crested Turaco (Tauraco erythrolophus), a native of western Angola. The entire family of the turacos (Musophagidae) is unknown in the Americas. I find it unfortunate that American film-makers at times see nothing wrong with detracting from their authenticity by using such exotica and portraying them as natural...Ptilinopus (talk) 04:14, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
Helen Hunt and Vince Vaughn including others did not feature is this film. Please roll back the changes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.77.2.0 (talk) 23:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Poker Odds
The poker odds of Hallie getting that Royal Flush in the gambling scene in the movie are 649,350 to 1. So I'm assuming she's a card cheat. By the way, the scene was derived from the poker scene in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence" with Lee Marvin. "You're good, but not good enough". 108.237.241.88 (talk) 12:56, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Hallie had pure dumb luck. There was no sign of any cheats, given the fact that there were a lot of girls around them. And this does not help the article. DawgDeputy (talk) 14:05, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Recent edits to Music section (both soundtrack and film score)
Three times this month, I've seen IPs editing the writing credit for "Here Comes the Sun", from the soundtrack, erroneously attributing it to Lennon-McCartney. While most Beatles' songs were written by them, this is one that was not; George Harrison as the songwriter is correct (clearly mentioned in his article as well as the one for the song, and is mentioned all over the Internet, and gone into detail in sources like ).

I've reverted the three edits so far, and it should continue to be reverted as misinformation if this change is made to the song's authorship again. With multiple IP addresses involved, it's possible that semiprotection of the page could be requested, but given the degree of edits on the page (at the time of this post), an admin is likely to decline any such requests at this time.

These same edits above also involved changing the record label for both the soundtrack and film score from Hollywood Records to Walt Disney Records. Hollywood is a Disney label, but I'm not thinking these are interchangeable, and there are differences between the two in terms of the demographics targeted. The article for Walt Disney Records mentions they put out soundtracks from Disney's motion pictures (The Parent Trap being one such film in their library), and I could see some confusion because of this point. Regardless, whichever one is mentioned on the cover/packaging of the soundtrack album is the one we go by, per WP:PRIMARY. (If some pressings say one, and then it's switched to the other for earlier or later pressings, then consensus is necessary to determine which ... usually it would be the one with the most pressings, but not necessarily.) MPFitz1968 (talk) 16:09, 21 August 2019 (UTC)