Identical twins Stephanie and Terry switch families after envying each other's lifestyles. Complications arise when Jeff's girlfriend Alice uncovers their charade. They continue the ruse, hoping to reunite their divorced parents.
Stephanie and Terry are identical twins who have been separated since their parents, Jeff and Mary, divorced seven years before. Each envies the other's lifestyle, so they decide to switch families for a day or two. They soon find that it is harder than just looking like someone to be able to do what that person is expected to do. After they realize that their charade may bring their parents back together, they agree to continue it. A major complication starts when Jeff's girlfriend and co-worker Alice finds out the real story.—Tony Fontana <[email protected]>
Despite arguably still loving each other, Jeff Turner and Mary Hale divorced seven years ago on the sole issue of how to raise their identical twin daughters; the settlement left Terry with Dad and Stephanie with Mom. Mary, a renowned child psychologist who does consulting work on the issue, believes that children should be raised in a controlled environment, the result being that Stephanie has become an academically brilliant teenager with a genius IQ. Jeff, an editorial columnist with the New York Chronicle newspaper, believes children should be raised as free spirit beings, the result being that Terry is a fun-loving teenager who loves to dance the modern dances. Despite Mary and Jeff's high profiles, no one knows that they are exes or that they have twin daughters. Not having seen each other in those seven years, as Mary and Stephanie had been traveling the world together, the four are reunited when Mary and Stephanie return to New York for an extended stay. Despite their differences, Terry and Stephanie want a life together as sisters and for their parents to reconcile so that they can be a complete, happy family. Seizing upon an opportunity, Terry and Stephanie end up switching places solely to see how the other half lives, but find that it may be a perfect further opportunity to work on the parent she no longer knows. Beyond the challenges in pulling off the switch in the sisters being so different, they have the further challenge that nothing fundamental has changed in their parents' perspectives regarding what led to their split. Further complicating matters is a person secretly (or not-so-secretly) pining over one of the four family members: Jeff's reporter colleague Alice Hunter; Senator John Pringle, who has been one of Mary's chief supporters; Terry's primary dance partner, soda jerk Jimmy; and the senator's son Mickey Pringle in Stephanie's life. Mary's situation is the most urgent: she has agreed to marry the senator, although she admits that their marriage wouldn't be based in traditional romantic love.—Huggo
