The Parent Trap Character Analysis

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Assalam and Good morning to our dearest lecturer, Miss Nazratul Akmal and my beloved friends. On this beautiful morning, I’m going to present you the most fascinating film that I have watched, The Parent Trap. The film was released on 20 July 1998 in United States, directed by Nancy Meyers and produced by Charles Shyer under Walt Disney Pictures. It was written by Charles Shyer & Nancy Meyers themselves. The 128-minute film features a comedy-drama-romance genre. Here, I am going to share with you
Now, let me tell you the cast of the film. The main characters are Annie James and Hallie Parker which is played by Lindsay Lohan. Annie is much more mature and proper meanwhile Hallie is cool and childish. Their parents, Nichloas Parker also called Nick is played
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After Hallie confess about she changes place with Annie to her mother, Elizabeth is really delightful to know it is her twin daughter, Hallie with her at that time. Here I can say that being honest is not a bad thing but it can bring us joy.
The strength of this movie is the storyline is sweet and family orientated. It is really suitable for kids to watch with their parents. However, the scene where Elizabeth drunk because she was nervous to meet her ex-husband is really inappropriate for kids to watch. I really hope they remove this scene so, parents do not have to worry about their kids watching this film.
Besides, The Parent Trap won Online Film & Television Association Film Award for Best Breakthrough Performance in 1999. It was also nominated in seven more categories such as Best Original Score for a Comedy Film, Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy and many more.
Additionally, this film received more critical acclaim than critics. Based on Common Sense Media site which voting is based on child development, The Parent Trap receive four out of five star. Roger Ebert, a film critic rate this film three out of four

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