It Takes Two (1995 film)
- Mary -Kate Olsen: Amanda Lemmon
- Ashley Olsen: Alyssa Callaway
- Kirstie Alley: Diane Barrows
- Steve Guttenberg: Roger Callaway
- Philip Bosco: Vincenzo
- Jane Sibbett: Clarice Kensington
One and one makes four of director Andy Tennant, is an American children's film from the year 1995. The film is based very clear on the novel Lottie and Lisa.
Action
Eleven year old Amanda Lemmon is an orphan and lives in a New York children's home in which the supervisor Diane Barrows works. Diane Amanda has particularly fallen in love and would like to adopt, but as a single person they do not get custody.
The also eleven years old Alyssa Callaway lives in seemingly better conditions. Her father Roger Callaway is very wealthy; her mother died when she was born. However, the wealth does not replace the care of parents. So it is the butler Vincenzo, who most cares about Alyssa because her father as a successful businessman has little time for his daughter. On top of that he wants to get married soon. His fiancée Clarice Kensington do not love children, Roger deceives this before but so he marries her.
The children's home spending her summer vacation in a holiday camp on the lake. At the same time pull the Callaways for a few weeks in their villa on the same lake. Soon there will be the first meeting between Amanda and Alyssa, both find that they look at each other confusingly similar. Dissatisfied with their life circumstances replace the girl for a while the roles. Alyssa and Amanda soon come to the conclusion that they must necessarily prevent the impending marriage of Roger and Clarice and Roger in their view anyway fits perfectly with Diane. It succeeds the girls, Diane and Roger together. But the two make up with many ideas about possible consequences; Finally, Roger has been recently officially betrothed to Clarice. So he takes after initially aggregated affection first again distance from Diane.
After Clarice Rogers of interest for Diane learns she urges her fiancé for a quick marriage and sets the wedding date before unceremoniously. To thwart Clarice 's plans yet, Alyssa Diane tells finally of her role reversal with Amanda and get them to hineinzuplatzen in the wedding. Then Roger makes the enraged Clarice standing at the altar. So Diane and Roger are still together still.
Reviews
" " His screen debut is a television director Andy Tennant ("The Amy Fisher Story" ), who staged his feel-good family fun in the classic tradition of old Hollywood comedies with modernized signs. In this sense, Deborah Dean Davis ' sparkling script is designed, in which the element of chance is a crucial factor and takes the romance between adults unrealistic fairy tale character. " "
" " Erich Kastner, author of ' Lottie and Lisa ', would certainly not be offended if he knew that he is not even mentioned in the credits. The social kitsch, the song of the family and especially the performers with their rubber faces, especially Jane Sibbett with their version of Medusa from ' The Rescuers ', show that the American live-action film in the course of ' Kevin ' and ' Mrs Doubtfire ' always more approximates to the Disney animated film. " "