It Takes Two (1995 film)

It Takes Two is a 1995 American romantic comedy film starring Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen.

Nine-year-old orphan Amanda Lemmon is being sought after by the Butkises, a reclusive and secretive family known to "collect" kids via adoption.

Alyssa has just come home from boarding school, only to find that her wealthy widowed father and the camp's owner, Roger, is about to marry an overbearing, self-centered, gold-digging socialite named Clarice Kensington.

Enraged, Diane takes Roger's company helicopter to the salvage yard to reclaim Alyssa (disguised as Amanda) and threatens to report the Butkises to social services, giving their other seven adopted children hope for salvation.

An incredulous Roger learns that Alyssa has been with Diane while he had Amanda all this time, and they realize that the girls had orchestrated their meetups all along, about which they are extremely smug.

After some encouragement from the girls, Roger and Diane share their first kiss and the four of them board a horse-drawn carriage, driven by Vincenzo, to take a ride through Central Park.

The site's consensus reads "Rob Base and DJ EZ Rock told us that It Takes Two to make a thing go right, but this unpleasant Olsen twins comedy proves that the opposite can also be true".

[7] Roger Ebert called it "harmless and fitfully amusing" with "numbingly predictable" plot and praiseworthy performances and rated it two out of four stars.