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Dennis Quaid, Natasha Richardson, and Lindsay Lohan in The Parent Trap (1998)

Parents guide

The Parent Trap

Content rating

  • Motion Picture Rating (MPA)
    Rated PG for some mild mischief

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    None
  • Profanity:
    None
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    None

Sex & Nudity

Mild
70 of 145 found this mild
After losing a card game Annie is forced to jump into a lake naked. We only see her from the shoulders up and the knees down as several campers catcall her as she walks down the dock. At one point she is also seen fully nude but only in silhouette with her buttocks and side of her chest visible. Some girls take her clothes after she dives into the water.
Meredith partially unbuttons Nick's shirt while sitting on his lap.
Martin is briefly shown wearing speedo style swim trunks.
An 11yo girl asks her divorced mother if working with wedding gowns every day doesn't make her think of getting married, or at least think of "the F-word". The interchange causes shock and surprise in her mother until the girl explains that the "F" is for "father."
A man is showing a woman a bottle in his wine collection and say, "I think my sister was conceived on a bottle of this."
A preteen girl tells a woman that marriage should be about more than "just sex."
A woman and a man discuss checking out the honeymoon suite at a hotel.
Multiple subtle allusions to Nick and Meredith being in a sexual relationship.

Violence & Gore

None
58 of 75 found this to have none
Annie and Hallie pushes Meredith out onto a lake on an inflatable mattress while she's asleep. She wakes up in a panic the next morning and falls into the water. (Played for laughs).
After falling into a lake Meredith angerly storms up to Nick kicking over a coffee pot and yells at him.
Nick is bumped into a swimming pool.
Hallie pierces Annie's ears by holding an apple slice behind her ear and poking a sharp needle all the way through. There is no blood, but a lot of screaming.
Annie and Hallie are in an intense fencing match and one of them falls into a horse trough.
A group of girls pull a prank on their rival cabin at a sumer camp they cover them with whipped cream, honey, fake spiders etc.
The girls are all panicking when they wake up. Annie has several water balloons dropped on her head as she gets out of bed. Marva Kulp, Sr. And Marva Kulp, Jr. Then plan to inspect the cabin as Hallie try to stop them when they enter a bucket of chocolate syrup spills on their heads and they slip across the floor which is covered in cooking oil. Marva Kulp, Sr. Grabs onto a ceiling fan pull which covers them with feathers. This scene is meant to be comical, but it may be considered bullying to some viewers.
A lizard crawls into Meredith's mouth. She screams and spits it out. This can be gross but mostly hilarious.

Profanity

None
53 of 67 found this to have none
"OMG" is exclaimed a number of times throughout (usually by the two sisters).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
56 of 72 found this mild
A stressed mother puts a cigarette in her mouth (she doesn't smoke it).
A mother walks down Abbey Road with her daughter smoking a cigarette. (Likely to mimic Paul McCartney on the cover of the Abbey Road Album.)
A girl says her grandfather smells like pipe tobacco
A young girl is seen drinking something out of what looking like a beer can. This is hard to see, and it might not even be beer.
A girl says that her grandfather smells of pipe tobacco.
A man drinks a martini.
Some adults drink wine throughout the film.
Two women have a drink together at a bar.
An 11-year-old girl takes a sip of wine (legal in England) and describes its taste. In a later scene, she falls completely off her chair while trying to lean over and see something. When her mother asks if she's all right, the child jokes "I had one sip too many, I guess!"
A mother becomes intoxicated on a plane, makes references to vodka. She stumbles around drunk in a hotel lobby, crashing into people. Her daughter witnesses this and alerts her nanny that her mother has only had one glass of wine in her entire life, up until now.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

None
56 of 64 found this to have none
Meredith has a plan to ship the twins off to boarding school and is very rude and condescending towards them
A young girl pierces another young girl's ears with an apple wedge and a sharp needle. A match is lit, and the flame is placed against the end of the needle before the procedure is done. No blood is shown, however there is a shot of the needle visibly being placed into the girl's ear lobe, and there is a lot of screaming.
During a camping trip, two young girls drag a sleeping woman to a lake, while still on her mattress. They push the mattress into the lake, with her still asleep on it. She wakes up the next morning (with a bird on her chest) screaming and falls into the lake. It is intended to be funny, however.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • Atp
  • Australia
    • PG
  • Austria
    • 0
  • Brazil
    • Livre
  • Bulgaria
    • B
  • Canada
    • G
    • FOntario
  • Chile
    • TE
  • Colombia
    • T
  • Czech Republic
    • U
  • Denmark
    • A
  • Finland
    • S
    • K-7VHS and DVD rating
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 0
  • Hong Kong
    • I
  • Hungary
    • KN
  • Iceland
    • L
  • India
    • U
  • Indonesia
    • PGself-applied
  • Ireland
    • PG
  • Israel
    • 12self-applied
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
  • Lithuania
    • V
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Mexico
    • AA
  • Netherlands
    • AL
  • New Zealand
    • G
  • Nigeria
    • G
  • Norway
    • A1998, cinema rating
  • Peru
    • Apt
  • Philippines
    • G
  • Poland
    • b.o.self-applied
  • Portugal
    • M/6
  • Russia
    • 0+
  • Saudi Arabia
    • G
  • Singapore
    • PG
  • South Africa
    • A
  • South Korea
    • All
    • 7DVD rating
  • Spain
    • T
  • Sweden
    • Btl
    • 9+Disney+ rating
  • Switzerland
    • 7canton of Geneva
    • 7canton of Vaud
  • Taiwan
    • 0+
  • Turkey
    • G
  • United Kingdom
    • PG
  • United States
    • TV-G

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