Dead Ringers

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<B>Music................Howard Shore</B></div> <div> <B>Producer...........David Cronenberg</B></div> <div> <B>Executive Producers....Carol Baum & Sylvio Tabet</B></div> <div> <B>Baded on the book "Twins" by Bari Woods & Jack Geasland</B></div> <div> <B>Special Effects Designed by Gordon Smith</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Dramatis Personae</U></B></div> <div> <B>Beverly\Elliot..Jeremy Irons (Betrayal, Kafka, Reversal of Fortune*)</B></div> <div> <B>Claire Niveau...Genevieve Bujold (Coma, Earthquake, King of Hearts)</B></div> <div> <B>Cary............Heidi Von Palleske </B></div> <div> <B>Danuta..........Barbara Gordon </B></div> <div> <B>Laura...........Shirley Douglas</B></div> <div> <B>Wolleck.........Stephen Lack (Fatal Attraction, Scanners)</B></div> <div> <B>Leo.............Nick Nichols </B></div> <div> <B>Arlene..........Lynn Cormack</B></div> <div> <B>Birchall........Damir Andrea</B></div> <div> <B>Mrs. Bookman....Miriam Newhouse</B></div> <div> <B>Superintendant..David Hughes</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Critique</U></B><B>: Good direction. The film certainly is engrossing, not a bad trick for 117 minutes. In fact, it's suspenseful. You never know when Bev is going to go off...or is Elliot to be the horror vehicle? Genevieve Bujold does a good job of being a largely positive Eve figure whose entrance into the twins' lives brings ruin. One of the few movies in which "based on a true story" doesn't utterly wreck things. Two years after </B><I><B>Dead Ringers</B></I><B>, Jeremy Irons received the Oscar for best actor in </B><I><B>Reversal of Fortune</B></I><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Plot Summary</U></B><B>: Toronto Canada, 1954. Twins explain the fish and eggs to one another. They suggest to a little girl that they have an experiment--turned down, they go back to experimenting with their doll. 1967 Cambridge, Mass. The twins earn fast accolades. </B></div> <div> <B>1988 Movie star Claire is infertile (trifucate). Bev Mantle tells Claire she has three Cervices. The boys have been playing twin-tricks, pretending to be each other as they strike up an affair with the unknowing Claire. Poor stodgy Bev has to tell her the bad news--she's infertile, which dampens the mood a bit. When Stodgey won't tell slick Elliot what happened with Claire, a dangerous little reft begins. Claire comments that "Beverli" is a bit schizophrenic. No surprise there. When Claire tell Elliot that she wants to meet Elliot. Soon it's clear what's gone on and the little affair is over. Bev takes it badly, but it's no biggie for Elliot. Bev shows up drunk at the award ceremony--the first signs of an impending horror movie? Bev had gotten awfully nervous when she mentioned that he might be gay. Think of the problems that would pose to psychological theory. Claire has pushed quite a few drugs on the apparently unstable Bev, and they're taking a toll. Bev calls and tells her director about the trifurcation - against her wishes. Bev eventually collapses from drugs, alcohol and sharing another female with Elliot. Bev begins making blunders in surgery and making inappropriate comments. The practice is faltering and Bev is having surgical instruments for mutant women made. Bev has turned now to heroin. Fortunately, he is not allowed to continue surgery with the implements and is escorted from the theater. Bev is convinced that the patients they've been getting lately are deformed on the inside. Elliot says whatever goes into Bev's bloodstream goes into his. Elliot has started taking drugs to get synchronized. When Claire returns, Bev manages to sneak out of the clinic where he's been holing up. Bev catches sight of the instruments for operating on mutant women, under that name, in an art gallery nearby and steals them. He tells Claire that they're for separating Siamese twins. Hmm. After complete synchronization, Bev pulls out his tools while he and Elliot are in a deep drug induced stupor. </B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>