| “ | I'm sorry. Did I say something to you? | „ |
| ~ Clarice Kensington to Vincenzo, showing off her snobbish personality. |
| “ | I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE HUMILITATED IN MY LIFE! | „ |
| ~ Clarice Kensington's breakdown at the wedding. |
Clarice Kensington is the main antagonist of the 1995 comedy film It Takes Two, which is based on the famous 1965 pop song of the same name by singers Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston. She was portrayed by Jane Sibbett, who would later play an almost identical role as Vivian Berger in the 1999 film Au Pair.
Personality[]
Despite her middle-class status, Clarice is a greedy and opportunistic social climber who only cares about gaining more money and status. She is overly confident in both her abilities and goals, and thus acts rude, snobbish, and arrogant towards anyone she considers as "competition" or "below" her, including her fiancé Roger Callaway's daughter Alyssa and the Callaways' butler Vincenzo. However, Clarice feigns empathy whenever Roger is around.
Clarice despises baseball and secretly, children, and only wants to get Roger's money when she marries him and plans to send Alyssa off to a boarding school in Tibet so that Clarice can be the only one who benefits off his money (similar to Meredith Blake in the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap). However, Clarice is shown to be evil earlier than Meredith. As her goals look fruitful, Clarice becomes increasingly controlling towards Roger so that she can avoid failure.
Biography[]
Clarice is first seen when Roger greets Alyssa, who has just returned home from boarding school. After Alyssa is in the den and overhears Clarice wanting to sell the house, Alyssa yells for her father and tells Roger that Clarice hates the house. Clarice then lies and says that she wanted to fix the house up. Alyssa then asks who Clarice is, and Roger says that he and Clarice will be married the following month.
Alyssa then runs away and meets another girl who looks just like her, an orphan named Amanda Lemmon, who is cared for by a likeable and warm-hearted social worker named Diane Barrows. They long for the other's life and decide to switch places. While Amanda adapts to Alyssa's wealthy lifestyle and Alyssa experiences summer camp, they get to know the other's parental figure and realize that Roger and Diane would be perfect for each other. Desperate to set them up, the girls arrange many meetings between them, hoping that they will fall in love.
After seeing Roger and Diane laughing and swimming together in the lake one afternoon, Clarice manipulates Roger into moving the wedding from the following month to the next day, and Amanda, while posing as Alyssa, discovers that Clarice plans on sending Alyssa to boarding school in Tibet afterwards.
Right before the wedding, Amanda tells Vincenzo that she is not Alyssa. He visits Diane at the orphanage and informs her about the switch. During the marriage ceremony in Manhattan, New York, Vincenzo and Amanda (pretending to be Alyssa) try their best to stall the wedding. However, Clarice attempts to speed up the wedding so that Diane cannot have Roger. As Roger thinks about whether or not to take Clarice as his wife, he recalls the good times he and Diane had together and realizes that he has fallen in love with her and cannot marry Clarice. Suddenly, Diane bursts into the church with Alyssa behind her. At that moment, Roger confesses his love for Diane to Clarice, who furiously slaps him. Clarice tries to do the same to "Alyssa", blaming her for ruining the wedding, but is stopped by Vincenzo.
As Clarice storms down the aisle, the real Alyssa steps out from behind Diane. Clarice declares that there is a "conspiracy", thinking that there are two Alyssas. Clarice attempts to slap the real Alyssa but Diane steps forward in time, barking "Back off, Barbie" at Clarice, and calmly informs Clarice that she has something in her teeth. Humiliated, Clarice moves to storm out of the church again, but Alyssa deliberately steps on her wedding gown, causing it to rip off. This exposes Clarice's stockings and white panties in front of all the wedding guests, even those with cameras, causing her to desperately call for her father (who just laughs) and run away, trying to hide her panties from the flashing cameras (somewhat the inspiration for the defeat of Coco LaBouche).