The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap (1961) is a Walt Disney family comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by David Swift and starring Hayley Mills — twice. The film is based on Erich Kästner's 1949 novella Das doppelte Lottchen, and runs a brisk 129 minutes.

Twin girls separated at birth by their parents' divorce end up at the same summer camp without knowing the other exists. Once the penny drops, they hatch a plan: swap identities, go home to each other's parent, and engineer a reunion. Their father's new girlfriend — a gold-digging socialite — gives the scheme extra urgency.

Mills playing both sisters without any digital effects, just careful editing and split-screen work, remains genuinely impressive for its era. The film holds up because the girls' logic is ruthlessly practical — they see exactly what the adults keep ignoring. Catch The Parent Trap (1961) online on iFILM.