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 eXistenZ, A History of Violence, Spider

Cast

Jeremy Irons The Lion King, Kingdom of Heaven, Die Hard: With a Vengeance Geneviève Bujold Eye of the Beholder, Coma, The House of Yes Heidi von Palleske Take the Lead, Deceived, Renegades Barbara Gordon Hypercube: Cube 2, Resurrection, Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms Shirley Douglas Lolita, Barney's Great Adventure, Woman Wanted Stephen Lack Scanners, Ernstfall in Havanna, All the Vermeers in New York Nick Nichols Rock & Rule, Bedroom Eyes [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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