
Upon arriving in Napa Valley, "Hallie" learns Nick has a new girlfriend Meredith ( Elaine Hendrix), a child-hating gold digger, that he is planning to propose to. Meanwhile, Annie imitates Hallie's American accent and flies to Napa Valley to meet their father, Hallie's nanny Chessy, and the family dog Sammy. Hallie imitates Annie's British accent and flies to London to meet their mother, maternal grandfather Charles, and the James' butler Martin. One night they discover they are twin sisters and hatch a plan: to switch places in order to meet the parent they have never met and eventually reunite them. They begin to pull a series of pranks on each other and after one prank goes too far, the two girls are isolated together as punishment until camp is over. However, shortly after the birth of their identical twin daughters, Annie and Hallie (both played by Lindsay Lohan), they get divorced and each has sole custody of one girl Nick raises Hallie in Napa Valley, California and Elizabeth raises Annie in London, England.Īlmost twelve years later in the summer of 1998, Nick and Elizabeth coincidentally send their daughters to the same summer camp, where they meet and take an immediate dislike to one another. In 1986, American winery owner Nicholas "Nick" Parker ( Dennis Quaid) and British wedding gown designer Elizabeth James ( Natasha Richardson) get married over the course of a transatlantic crossing on the Queen Elizabeth 2.
