Dead Ringers1988

Director
David Cronenberg

Acters

Jeremy Irons (Beverly/Elliot)
Geneviève Bujold (Claire/Leo's wife)
Heidi von Palleske (Cary/Elliot's girlfriend)
Barbara Gordon (Danuta/Clinic receptionist)
Shirley Douglas (Laura/Claire's friend)
Stephen Lack (Anders Wolleck)

Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
The Mantle brothers are both doctors – both gynecologists – and identical twins. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. When he’s tired of his current partner, she is passed on to the other brother – without her knowing. Everything runs smoothly, until an actress visits their clinic, and the shy brother is the first to fall in love. Will they be able to ‘share’ her?
“An instant classic, an Oscar-worthy showcase for Jeremy Irons, and a tightrope ballet over dicey screen material. Like ‘Vertigo’, ‘The Night of the Hunter’, ‘Repulsion’ and a few others, this movie finds beauty in morbidity – then nags you to come back for a second dose.” – USA Today
“What makes the performance(s) even better is that Mr. Irons invests these bizarre, potentially freakish characters with so much intelligence and so much real feeling.” – The New York Times
“An astonishing tour de force–especially for Irons, whose sense of nuance is so refined that one can tell in a matter of seconds which twin he is playing in a particular scene.” – Reader