If theres a gold standard for a single actor playing twins, its jeremy irons in dead ringers. At least it feels that way if you ignore the dead screen that is the early crimes of the future, but nobody cares about that one. The movie centers on elliot and beverly mantle, identical twins and gynecologists who frequently sub for each another professionally and even personally by sharing one anothers lovers. Stay in the know with the latest movie news and cast interviews at. Bbc two, 18 november 2002 2007 was a uk radio and television comedy impressions show broadcast on bbc radio 4 and bbc2. Dead ringers 1988 releases dates, movie score, movie trailer, movie poster, synopsis, and plot. David cronenberg directed and cowrote the screenplay with norman snider.
Good script, and awesome performances from both irons and bujold. Its a lurid story about love, family bonds, and some unspeakable acts of experimental gynecologyall leading up to a tabloidready conclusion. Flash forward to the brothers jeremy irons at cambridge, massachusettes in 1967, working in a medical lab and receiving acclaim for inventing a retractor. No connection to david cronenberg film dead ringers. Dead ringers, 1988, directed by david cronenberg, written by david cronenberg and norman snider, from the novel twins, by bari wood and jack geasland this is a hard one to write about part of the reason i havent posted in a while. The mantles are wunderkind doctors from toronto who operate the famous mantle fertility clinic where actress claire niveau genevieve bujold comes seeking advice on how she can become pregnant. The movie opens in toronto, 1954 with elliot and beverly mantle jonathan and nicholas haley as young boys, discussing sex and trying to learn about the female form. The more i think about this movie, the less it makes me think. David cronenbergs film dead ringers centers on twin gynecologists, who use their identical nature to seduce women into unwittingly falling for both of them.
Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. Dead ringers is, to be sure, a relentlessly chilling, grotesque, and unmistakably cronenbergian exercise in psychological horror, but the mantle brothers saga, as elliot calls it, is a tragic one at its core. All manner of plot twists and turns abound, none of which make a lick of sense because the filmmakers thought wed be too titillated to notice. It stars jeremy irons in a dual role as beverly and elliot mantle, brilliant twins who grow up to be brilliant gynecologists. Flash forward to the brothers jeremy irons at cambridge, massachusettes in 1967, working in a medical lab and receiving. Dead ringers is a tale about scary and creepy doppelgangers. Their script was based on the lives of stewart and cyril marcus and on the novel twins by bari wood and jack geasland, a highly fictionalized version of the marcus story. After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in north africa. The film is very loosely based on the lives of stewart and cyril marcus. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has. Elliot is the more aggressive and outgoing of the two, who makes the public speeches. Elliot jeremy irons, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, beverly also irons. Their script was based on the lives of stewart and cyril marcus and on the novel twins by bari wood and jack geasland, a highly.
The premise of dead ringers is derived from bari wood and jack geaslands 1977 novel, twins, a fictionalized account of the true story of stewart and cyril marcus, twinbrother gynecologists and barbiturate addicts who were found dead in their manhattan apartment in 1975. As for my home countrys greatest filmmaker, whether you like dead ringers or not its clearly. Try the films page on imdb by clicking on the imdb logo. Granted, jeremy irons is a fine actor and despite playing double roles as twin brothers, i was so wrapped up in the plot of the film and the characters that id often forget eliot and beverly were being played by. Dead ringer was remade in 1986 as killer in the mirror, a madefortelevision movie starring ann jillian. 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, researchoriented brother. I think this movie got attention because jeremy irons played two roles and in 1988 it was a complex a ponderously slow moving thriller with no real plot. Nothing really happens until the end, and what does finally happen makes no sense. Dead ringers is a 1988 canadianamerican psychological body horror drama film starring jeremy irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Elliot and beverly mantle are twins and gynecologists who jointly operate a highly successful clinical practice in toronto that. Dead ringers news, posters, trailers, images, cast and plot. Aug 17, 2004 in the end, dead ringer errs toward supplanting uneasy luridness in favor of undemanding bad taste reaching a low with the final meeting between one character and a protective great dane, and it leaves bette daviss expected, flamboyant brilliance in the lurchthough with the side attractions such as davis slapping checkbooks across rooms. Dead ringers is a layered film that can be read from a psychoanalytical perspective. Dead ringers 1991 elliot jeremy irons, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, beverly also irons.
David cronenbergs grotesque masterpiece dead ringers has. It doesnt have particularly sympathetic characters, or a knockout plot, but it made me sadder than just about any movie i can think of. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. Still, if you like horror movies, this one will keep you on the edge of your seat. The movie opens in toronto, 1954 with elliot and beverly mantle jonathan and nicholas haley as young boys. They take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
Dead ringers is a 1988 horror drama film directed by david cronenberg and starring jeremy irons its a story about twin gynecologists, elliot and beverly mantle, who run a brisk business treating infertile women. Still, if you like horror movies, this one will keep you on the edge of your. In spite of cronenbergs distancing technique, the film is about men who fundamentally cannot and could never comprehend what. The movie opens in toronto, 1954 with elliot and beverly mantle jonathan and nicholas haley as young boys, discussing sex and trying to learn. The plot doesnt make sense, in the way that most plots do. Elliot, the more aggressive and confident of the two, seduces women who come to the. Dead ringers is a 1988 canadianamerican psychological thriller film starring jeremy irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. Elliot jeremy irons and beverly mantle jeremy irons are identical twins and highly successful gynecologists. Alpha twin elliot is the first to seduce, then once he has tired of a woman, he passes her on to his more demure and shy brother beverly. Sep 28, 2016 the mantle brothers are both doctors both gynecologists and identical twins. The vehicle may be creaky on the plot track, but it has all the extra accounterments the studio used to supply in her dramatic heydey. Read the dead ringers plot and find out who is in the cast and crew at.
Dead ringers is about the connection between twins seen through the eyes of a master of body horror. Dead ringers is the tragedy of identical twin gynecologists beverly and elliot mantle both played by jeremy irons. Dead ringers by christopher golden was a pleasant surprise and one really cool story. The real life story behind the movie dead ringers the th. Dead ringers is the vulgar exploitationmovie title given to david cronenbergs new film, which was originally and more poetically titled. Dead ringers 1988 upcoming movies movie database joblo. That film features a corruptible shrink getting sexually involved with one of his patients.
In the end, dead ringer errs toward supplanting uneasy luridness in favor of undemanding bad taste reaching a low with the final meeting between one character and a protective great dane, and it leaves bette daviss expected, flamboyant brilliance in the lurchthough with the side attractions such as davis slapping checkbooks across rooms. A cronenburg film whose plot summary hinted at a surreal story, but left virtually everything to the imagination, sounded like an incredible horror gem just waiting to be watched. Dead ringers is cronenbergs first attempt at a conventional, tragic, human drama. Dead ringer 2018 this movie is a modern day version of the prince and the pauper where one man from a poor background ends up taking over another mans life from the entirely opposite end of the spectrum. Identical twins elliot and beverly mantle both played by irons are famous gynecologists in toronto. Double lover brought back memories of 1994s dreadful bruce willis erotic thriller color of night. Dead ringers dr is a movie that had my hopes up when i finally got a chance to watch it. The programme was devised by bill dare and developed with jon holmes, andy hurst and simon blackwell. The chilling story of identical twin gynecologistssuave elliot and sensitive beverly, bipolar sides of one personalitywho share the same practice, the same. This essay is looking at them through the sedgwick triangle, the boundaries between self and other.
Dead of night begins with a group of characters coming together, but here this is not in the interests of establishing a national consensus. Ealing studios, which produced dead of night, contributed to this with, among others, san demetrio london and the bells go down. It has an emotional intensity that most movies cant touch. Part horror, part fantasy, and full blown thriller. Mentally however, one of them is more confident than the other, and always manages to seduce the women he meets. Plot and symbolism fact vs fiction behind the scenes movie music actors and actresses. Dead ringers centres around identical male twins named elliot and beverly, of whom are set up as contrasting personalities. It stars jon culshaw, jan ravens, phil cornwell, kevin connelly and mark perry. Based on the crowds movie taste updated on april 24, 2020, keytalks representing the movie dead ringers are more intense, more horrifying, most disturbing, more disturbing, very haunting, nightmares for a week, too thrilling, truly horrifying, most horrifying, haunting music and others. Dead ringers, canadian film, a psychological thriller about twin gynecologists who gradually descend into madness, that is considered one of director david. Although its not without some humor, dead ringers is very bleak.
I recently managed to acquire a copy of the film and sat down to watch it a few weeks ago. Dead ringers bbc radio 4, 4 january 2000 20 october 2005. Between worlds is a new supernatural thriller about a trucker named joe nicolas cage who falls in with julie franka potente, a single mother with the ability to send her spirit between the world of the living and the dead. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing dead ringers 1988 near you. Dead ringers may be a beautifully structured and wellacted movie, but it certainlys isnt an easy film to watch. Dead ringers is a 1988 canadianamerican psychologicalbody horror film starring jeremy irons in a dual roles as identiacl twin gynecologists david cronenberg directed and cowrote the screenplay with norman snider their script was based on the lives of stewart and cyril marcus and on the novel. Based extremely loosely on a true story, dead ringers stars jeremy irons and. Instead this group is fragmented by the films insistent stress on the. The film functions in this respect so well that one is left emotionally drained and extremely melancholic after viewing it. Dead ringers 1991 stream and watch online moviefone. Dead ringers is the vulgar exploitationmovie title given to david cronenbergs new film, which was originally and more poetically titled twins. If you like dead ringers you are looking for disturbing, psychological and atmospheric movies about with twins, obsession, insanity, love triangle, addiction, life is a bitch and losingit hero themes of drama, horror and thriller genre shot in canada. Following an accident, julie tries to pull her daughter billie penelope mitchell from a coma using her abilities, but something or someone else.