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Dead Ringers

Name: Dead Ringers
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Released: 1988-09-23
Duration: 115 min
Rating: 7.1

★ 7,1 /10 (1,016 Votes)

1988 EN 115 min

Overview

Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the meeker of the two, without the woman knowing the difference. Beverly falls hard for one of the patients, Claire, but when she inadvertently deceives him, he slips into a state of madness.

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Release date

23/09/1988

Votes

1,016

Popularity

3.9

Two bodies. Two minds. One soul.

Genres

Thriller Horror

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

115 min

Budget

$13,000,000

Revenue

$8,038,508

Jeremy Irons

Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle

Geneviève Bujold

Claire Niveau

Heidi von Palleske

Cary

Barbara Gordon

Danuta

Shirley Douglas

Laura

Stephen Lack

Wolleck / Anders Wolleck

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Nick Nichols

Leo

Lynne Cormack

Arlene

Damir Andrei

Birchall

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Miriam Newhouse

Mrs. Bookman

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David Hughes

Superintendent

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Richard W. Farrell

Dean of Medicine

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Warren Davis

Anatomy Class Supervisor

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Marsha Moreau

Raffaella

Denis Akiyama

Pharmacist

Dee McCafferty

Surgeon

Jane Luk

Lecture-Hall Nurse

Jill Hennessy

Mimsy

David Cronenberg

Obstetrician (uncredited)

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Bob Bainborough

Mr. Glaser

Jacqueline Hennessy

Escort Twin

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Jonathan Haley

Beverly Age 9

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Nicholas Haley

Elliot Age 9

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Susan Markle

Operating Room Nurse

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Murray Cruchley

Assisting Surgeon

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Tita Trevisan

Furniture Salesman

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David Walden

Director

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Liliane Stillwell

Wardrobe Person

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Denise McLeod

Art Gallery Lady

Nicholas Rice

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Joe Matheson

Sean / Waiter

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Hadley Kay

Delivery Boy

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Cynthia Eastman

Sobbing Woman

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Nora Colpman

Mrs. Randell

Rena Polley

Soap Opera Character

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Madeleine Atkinson

Soap Opera Character

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John Bayliss

Performance Double

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Graham Evans

Picture Double

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Alan Gough

Director (uncredited)

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Jordan-Patrick Marcantonio

Twin Boy (uncredited)

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Julian-Peter Marcantonio

(uncredited)

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Greg Van Riel

Man in Reception (uncredited)

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I've often thought that there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies. Dead Ringers is directed by David Cronenberg who also co-adapts the screenplay with Norman Snider from the book "Twins" written by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland. It stars Jeremy Irons and Genevieve Bujold. Music is by Howard Shore and cinematography by Peter Suschitzky. Identical twin gynaecologists Beverly and Elliott Mantle (Irons) run a high end fertility clinic in the city. Both in tune with each in spite of being different personalities, their world starts to fold inwards when Beverly falls in love with…

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Sheer brilliance. Deep down, EVERYONE has a love/hate thing about identical twins. On the one side, they wish they had that kind of communion with someone, that sort of magical intimacy they share, having someone basically the exact same as themselves...yet that same one-of-a-kind companionship is scary as hell. I haven't seen, from my fellow Canadian, either 'Scanners' (1981) or 'Naked Lunch' (1991), so I can't honestly say whether or not my assertion can be thus extended, but I dare ANYONE to find in horror a finer run than Cronenberg had, in 'Videodrome', 'The Dead Zone', 'The Fly'...and…

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David Cronenberg reveals himself to be a total pseud. "Our identities blur together. We are one soul." Give me a break

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