The Parent Trap II
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| Genre | Comedy Family |
| Based on | Characters created by Erich Kästner |
| Written by | Stuart Krieger |
| Directed by | Ronald F. Maxwell |
| Starring |
Hayley Mills Tom Skerritt Carrie Kei Heim Bridgette Andersen |
| Music by | Charles Fox |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Joan Barnett |
| Cinematography | Peter Stein |
| Editor(s) | Corky Ehlers |
| Running time | 81 minutes |
| Distributor | Buena Vista Television |
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| Original network | Disney Channel |
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| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | The Parent Trap |
| Followed by | Parent Trap III |
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The Parent Trap II is a 1986 American made-for-television comedy film and a sequel to Disney's 1961 classic The Parent Trap and the second installment in The Parent Trap series. It premiered on Disney Channel on July 26, 1986 as a part of the channel's "Sunday Night Movie".
Hayley Mills is the only actress that returned from the original film. She continues to portray Susan and Sharon, the twins who were separated at age one, met up twelve years later at summer camp, switched places and went on to reunite their divorced parents.
The film focuses on Sharon's daughter, Nikki, who tries to hook her mother up with her best friend Mary's father, portrayed by Tom Skerritt. It was a success for the Disney Channel and it later spawned two more made-for-television sequels, both produced in 1989.
The film takes place twenty-five years after the original film. Sharon Ferris is unhappily divorced and living as a single, somewhat jaded mother in Tampa, Florida. Her daughter, Nikki, is not happy about their impending move to New York City. While in summer school, Nikki makes enemies with Jessica Dintruff (Tannen), but befriends Mary Grand. Mary's father, Bill Grand, has been widowed for four years. To stop Nikki from moving to New York and to see their parents happily married, the girls scheme to set them up.
Nikki and Mary trick their parents into meeting each other by sending Sharon flowers that are supposedly from Bill, but they do not just fall madly in love with each other as the girls had hoped. So they contact Sharon's twin sister, Susan Carey. She is happily married and still living in California. She is convinced by the girls to fly to Tampa to help them by posing as Sharon and going on a few dates just to get things started.
"Sharon" "accidentally" bumps into Bill at a bar called the Press Box and watches a few innings of a baseball game with him. The real Sharon detests baseball, and is confused when Bill drops by her workplace the next day and mentions how much fun they had. "Sharon" and Bill cross paths a couple more times over the next few days. Florence (Cromwell), Bill and Mary's maid, begins to suspect that something is awry.
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