Jeremy Irons
Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle
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Dead Ringers is a 1988 psychological thriller film starring Jeremy Irons in a dual role as identical twin gynecologists. David Cronenberg directed and co-wrote the screenplay with Norman Snider.
Sep 23, 1988 · Dead Ringers: Directed by David Cronenberg. With Jeremy Irons, Geneviève Bujold, Heidi von Palleske, Barbara Gordon. Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman.
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- Drama, Horror, Thriller
- David Cronenberg
- 1988-09-23
“Dead Ringers” is the vulgar exploitation-movie title given to David Cronenberg’s new film, which was originally and more poetically titled “Twins.” It stars Jeremy Irons in a dual role as Beverly and Elliot Mantle, brilliant twins who grow up to be brilliant gynecologists.
Elliot (Jeremy Irons), a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly (also Irons). Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them.
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- David Cronenberg
- R
- Jeremy Irons
When a new patient, glamorous actress Claire Niveau, challenges their eerie bond, they descend into a whirlpool of sexual confusion, drugs, and madness. Jeremy Irons' s tour-de-force performance—as both twins—raises disturbing questions about the nature of personal identity.
- Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle
Oct 12, 1998 · Dead Ringers’ stunning trump card and major special effect is Jeremy Irons. Cronenberg had already relinquished his early visceral/visual techniques of blood and gore for an emotionally affecting cinema centered on the disintegration of the mind as opposed to the flesh.
Showing all 101 items. Jump to: Photos (76) Quotes (25) Photos. 53 more photos. Quotes. Elliot Mantle : Don't do this to me, Bev. Beverly Mantle : But I'm only doing it to me. Why don't you get along with your very own life? Elliot Mantle : Do you remember the first Siamese twins? Beverly Mantle : Chang and Eng were joined at the chest.
