Tear Jerker / The Parent Trap (1998)

• The scenes where Hallie meets her mother for the first time and Annie meets her father for the first time is enough to make anyone tear up.
  • Hallie on the plane, heart in her throat, hoping out loud that her mother will like her.
• The scenes where Annie reveals herself to Chessy and Hallie reveals herself to Elizabeth are both incredibly emotional. Chessy falls to pieces the second Annie admits who she is, blurting out her birth weight and length and asking to hug her, in tears. And when Hallie admits to Elizabeth who she is and that she wanted to get to know her mother, there's an incredibly heartbreaking moment when you realize that, as much as Elizabeth might have agreed to the custody arrangement or even come up with the idea, the separation has been just as hard on her as Hallie.
  Hallie: I hope that one day you'll love me as me and not as Annie.
  Elizabeth: [pulls Hallie into a hug and kisses her head] Oh, darling. I've loved you your whole life.
• The scene where Nick finds out about them is also this, especially when Nick hugs Annie and is all emotional over seeing her as her for the first time in over a decade.
• The conversation about the break-up. Elizabeth talks about their blazing row, how she packed her bags and Nick never came after her.
  Nick: I didn't know that you wanted me to.
• There's also the part where the families say goodbye just as Annie and Elizabeth are about to go back to London. You see Nick hugging Annie, Elizabeth hugging Hallie, Nick giving Elizabeth a quick kiss on the cheek and the twins desperately embracing each other. They even walk to the car, clinging to each other under a shared umbrella, clearly desperate to spend every second they can together.
  • Chessy also grabs an umbrella and goes out to the car so she can say goodbye to Martin.
  • The use of “Every Time We Say Goodbye” for the soundtrack of the scene only adds to the heartbreak.

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