Characters
- Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan girl. She loves to play stickball. She has the idea for herself and Alyssa to switch places for a couple of days.
- Alyssa Callaway (Ashley Olsen) is a rich girl and the only child of Roger Callaway, the owner of Camp Callaway, the summer camp for the orphans. She is a prize-winning pianist and an equestrian. She thinks her father's fiancee, Clarice, seems nice until she overhears her saying rude things about the house and her mother. She attends Camp Callaway after she switches places with Amanda.
- Roger Callaway (Steve Guttenberg) is a very wealthy widower. He owns Camp Callaway, which he founded with his late wife, and currently resides in a large vacation home across the lake from it. He begins to have doubts about marrying Clarice after he meets Diane and they click.
- Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley) is a social worker who takes care of the orphans. She especially loves Amanda and would like to adopt her but does not make enough money to be allowed to do so. Alyssa also especially likes her. Diane also wants to find love and thinks she might have a chance after meeting Roger.
- Clarice Kensington (Jane Sibbett) is a socialite and a gold digger, the opposite of Diane. She hates kids and baseball and only wants to marry Roger for his money. She also convinces him that Alyssa is too spoiled and gets away with bad behavior.
- Vincenzo (Philip Bosco) is Roger's butler, best friend, and right-hand man as well as a father figure to Alyssa since the day she was born.
- Harry (Ernie Grunwald) and Fanny Butkis (Ellen-Ray Henessy) are Amanda's potential adoptive parents. Although she wants to be adopted, Amanda dislikes them, having heard that they "collect kids" and will "take anybody". A meeting with them does not change her mind. They have several multiracial, multiethnic adopted children and a biological son, Harry, Jr. (Dov Tiefenbach).
- Carmen (Michelle Crisom), Amanda's camp friend and fellow orphan.
- Frankie (Desmond Robertson), Amanda's camp friend and fellow orphan who makes fun of Amanda being adopted by the Butkis.
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