Scrooge McDuck’s money pit and 9 other on-screen home amenities we still want

Parker Knoll

Okay, let’s just get this out there. Everything about the rebooted Parent Trip was a stretch. The fact that Hallie Parker and Annie James ended up at the same summer camp. The fact that Dennis Quaid’s cool guy dad character would somehow not see past his babe of a fiancée having no actual redeemable qualities. The fact that BOTH PARENTS THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY TO SEPARATE THEIR IDENTICAL TWIN DAUGHTERS AND JUST NEVER MENTION IT TO THEM. But among all those hard to believe details, let’s talk about the winery that Nick Parker owns in Napa, California.

Maybe it wasn’t just the winery we wanted to be ours when we were watching this movie as children. It was the whole life these people were living. The horseback riding through the vineyard, the wedding dress designer mother, the discovery that we had a twin sister, the bravery to pierce and or have our ears pieced by essentially a stranger at camp and not get in trouble for it later — everything about the 1998 movie was enviable. (Except, of course, the whole having parents who were just planning on never mentioning you have an identical twin sibling.)

But that winery, with its sweeping vistas, fancy basement private label collections, and rugged dad at the helm was cool in a classy, grown-up way. This wasn’t a roller coaster or an alligator pit. It was refined, and probably super expensive. So, naturally, it was something we coveted,  almost as much as the blue Hard Candy nail polish Hallie bets with when the twins are playing poker early in the movie.