She has the idea for herself and Alyssa to switch places for a couple of days.

Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan.

Roger and Diane both find out in the end that it was Amanda and Alyssa that arranged all the meetings between both of them the entire time, but it ends happily.

She storms out, embarrassed & Alyssa embarrasses her even more by stepping on her gown, causing the skirt to rip off, exposing her white underwear to the entire wedding. Once she and Diane show up, Roger stops it and tells Clarice that he fell in love with Diane.įurious, Clarice slaps Roger and blames Alyssa for the divorce, and prepares to do the same to both Amanda and Alyssa, but she is stopped by both Vincenzo and Diane. He summons to have the real Alyssa picked up from the Butkises' salvage yard to stall the wedding. Roughly two hours before it, Amanda (who poses as Alyssa) proves to the family butler, Vincenzo (Philip Bosco), who she really is. When Clarice secretly spies on Roger and Diane, she decides to move up the wedding from the next month to the next day. She and Diane (while looking for Alyssa) find out the only reason they have adopted so many kids was for them to work in their salvage yard. So they arrange 'chance' meetings with the desired result: they fall in love with each other.Īfter some turbulence, Alyssa (who poses as Amanda) ends up being adopted by the Butkises. The girls switch places and find out that Roger and Diane would fit together perfectly. Diane would like to do so as well, but authorities will not let her because of her low salary.Īlyssa Callaway (Ashley Olsen) is coming home from her school's piano recital competition only to find out that her wealthy father, Roger (Steve Guttenberg) is about to marry Clarice Kensington (Jane Sibbett) a socialite who threatens to send her soon-to-be stepdaughter to boarding school in Tibet. She wants her child-loving social worker, Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley), to adopt her instead. The film is about two unrelated young girls who happen to look identical that suddenly meet each other.Īmanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan who is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family whom she doesn't like.

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