She tries to slap the real Alyssa, but Diane steps forward in time, barking at her, 'Back off, Barbie', and calmly informs her that she has something in her teeth. As she storms down the aisle, the real Alyssa steps out from behind Diane, and Clarice claims that there is a 'conspiracy', thinking that there are two Alyssas. She tries to do the same to 'Alyssa', blaming her for sabotaging their wedding, but is stopped by Vincenzo. At that moment, Roger confesses his love for Diane to Clarice, who furiously slaps him. All of a sudden, Diane bursts into the church with Alyssa behind her.

As Roger hesitates to say 'I do,' he recalls all the good times he had with Diane and realizes that he has fallen in love with her, and he therefore cannot marry Clarice. Vincenzo and Amanda try their best to stall the wedding. Furious, Diane reclaims Alyssa (disguised as Amanda) and threatens to report the Butkises to social services, giving their other adopted children hope for salvation. Diane discovers the only reason the Butkises had adopted so many kids was to put them to work in their salvage yard as slave laborers. Diane arrives at the Butkises’ residence via helicopter to pick up the real Alyssa and get her to the wedding. He visits Diane at the orphanage and tells her about the switch. Roughly two hours before the wedding, Amanda proves to the family butler, Vincenzo, that she is not Alyssa. Alyssa ends up being adopted by the Butkises without Diane's knowledge while posing as Amanda. Upon having spied Roger and Diane laughing and swimming together in the lake one afternoon, Clarice manipulates Roger into moving the wedding up from the next month to the next day and Amanda, while posing as Alyssa, finds out that she plans on sending her off to boarding school in Tibet afterward.

Roger and Diane do seem to hit it off upon meeting, as she is pleasantly surprised with his kind and humble nature despite his wealth, and he, with her help, is able to work up the courage to visit the camp again, which he has not done since his first wife (and Alyssa's mother) died, due to painful memories of her untimely death.

Desperate to set them up, they arrange many meetings between them, hoping that they'll fall in love. While Amanda adapts to Alyssa's wealthy lifestyle and Alyssa gets to experience summer camp, they get to know the other's parental figure and discover that Roger and Diane would be perfect for each other. She's just come home from boarding school, only to find that her billionaire father and the camp's owner, Roger, is about to marry Clarice Kensington, an overbearing, self-centered, gold-digging socialite.Īmanda and Alyssa soon become acquainted, each longing for the other's life and decide to switch places. While at summer camp, Amanda meets a rich girl named Alyssa Callaway, who looks just like Amanda. Diane would like to do so, but authorities will not let her because of her low salary, unmarried status, and social worker position.

She actually wants the likeable warm-hearted Diane Barrows, her social worker, to adopt her instead. Family Entertainment label.Īmanda Lemmon is a nine-year-old orphan who is being sought after by the Butkises, a reclusive, secretive family known to 'collect' kids via adoption. The storyline is similar to the 1881 novel, The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain and the 1961-movie The Parent Trap, which in turn is based on the 1949 book Lisa and Lottie by Erich Kästner. The title is taken from the song of the same name by Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, which is played in the closing credits. It Takes Two is a 1995 American romantic comedy film starring Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

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