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Actors: Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi Von Palleske, Nick Nichols
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Dead Ringers |
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Identical twins Elliot and Beverly Mantle (both played by Irons) are famous gynecologists in Toronto. Elliot is the more aggressive and outgoing of the two, who makes the public speeches, is successful with women, and when he tires of them hands women off to his shyer, research-oriented brother. When a famous actress, Claire Niveau (Bujold) comes to their clinic for infertility problems, Beverly falls in love with her and refuses to share his feelings and experiences with his brother anymore. When Claire realizes the two have been playing her off, she leaves, and Beverly descends into a drug habit, also having some ghoulish surgical tools designed for him by an artist. Unable to break his emotional dependence on Elliot, and craving Claire, Beverly and the twins' relationship move toward the breaking point. Cowritten and directed by Canadian horror filmmaker David Cronenberg, this 1988 film is sophisticated and extremely uncomfortable fare. Irons does an outstanding job portraying and distinguishing the two brothers.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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DEAD RINGERS is a movie cowritten and directed by canadian director David Cronenberg in 1988. Grand Prize of the Avoriaz Film Festival. Music by Howard Shore.
Beverly and Elliot Mantle are famous gynecologists and identical twins, Beverly dedicating himself on practice and research while Elliot, more confident, gives lectures. Elliot is helping Beverly meet women and, one day, he organizes a rendezvous between Beverly and one of their famous patients, Geneviève Bujold, an actress. At first reluctant in front of the peculiar situation, Beverly soon falls in love with Bujold and doesn't want to share his thoughts and sexual experiences with Elliot. As Bujold must leave Canada for a while in order to shoot a TV mini-serie, a depressive Beverly develops a drug problem. Eliot tries to cure him but Beverly becomes insane, he even performs a surgical operation with special tools created specially for him by an artist. Eliot knows that if Beverly dies, he will, like the second siamese twin, follow her to his death.
Another masterpiece of David Cronenberg.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Dead Ringers |
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- love triangle/polygon
Family, loving
Yes
Special relationship with
- brother
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- main character serviced by a prostitute
- sex with client/patient
Lover is...
- caretaker/doc/nurse
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- doctor
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
- emotionally unstable
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
- sad
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Canadian
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Cynical sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average build
Unclothed?
- chest
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- actor
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
- Canadian
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- druggie/wino disease
Setting
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
City:
- wealthy
Misc setting
- scientific labs
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- explicit references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
- depressed/sad
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- licking
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
Subtitles?
- No
Any profanity?
- Occasional swearing
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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