Dead Ringers (1988)

The Mantle brothers, Beverly and Elliot, are brilliant gynecologists with an upscale Toronto practice. Elliot is charismatic and outgoing, Beverly is shy and hard-working; emotionally inseparable, the brothers function like psychological Siamese twins. They share everything, including women, until Beverly--the weaker of the two--falls in love with a neurotic, drug addicted, actress. Forced to separate from his brother for the first time, Beverly becomes hooked on drugs and suffers a complete mental breakdown. Elliot, unable to exist independently of his twin, soon joins Beverly in a nightmarish descent into madness and self-destruction. Irons plays the brothers (achieved with seamless camera trickery), whose award winning research in gynecology has brought them international acclaim. Wholly original and uniquely disturbing, it could have been made by an alien, providing he had David Cronenberg's healthy disregard for commercial cinema and a unique sense of the human

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Subtle, darkly humorous and horrifying in its depiction of the onset of mental illness in two twins at once, this is easily Cronenberg's best movie.

Directed by

David Cronenberg A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, eXistenZ

Written by

David Cronenberg Scanners II: The New Order, Scanners III: The Takeover, Scanner Cop Bari Wood In Dreams Jack Geasland Norman Snider Rated X, Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss, Valentine's Day

Cast

Jeremy Irons The Lion King, Kingdom of Heaven, Die Hard: With a Vengeance Geneviève Bujold Eye of the Beholder, Last Night, The House of Yes Heidi von Palleske Take the Lead, Deceived, Renegades Barbara Gordon Resurrection, If You Could See What I Hear, Threshold Shirley Douglas Lolita, The Path to 9/11, Barney's Great Adventure Stephen Lack Scanners, Ernstfall in Havanna, All the Vermeers in New York Nick Nichols [more]

Music By

Howard Shore The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, The Silence of the Lambs

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