Dead Ringers

Name: Dead Ringers
Released: 1988
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 72.47839927239654
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon, Shirley Douglas

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Drama / Thriller / Horror

Canada / USA, 1988, 115 min (Alternative: 111 min)

Directed by:

David Cronenberg

Based on:

Jack Geasland (book), Bari Wood (book)

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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, whose award winning research in gynecology has brought them international acclaim. (20th Century Fox)

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