Jeremy Irons
Beverly Mantle/Elliot Mantle
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“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.
Apr 23, 2023 · Brian Tallerico April 23, 2023. Tweet. The new Prime Video version of “Dead Ringers” works better once you divorce yourself from your memories of the excellent 1988 original. Sure, it’s still the story of gynecologist twin doctors and it maintains a healthy degree of the icy menace from the original, but it carves out a unique, confident ...
Plot. Dead Ringers. Jump to Edit. Summaries. Twin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins.
Production design. Carol Spier. Editing. Ronald Sanders. In Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg tells the chilling story of identical twin gynecologists—suave Elliot and sensitive Beverly, bipolar sides of one personality—who share the same practice, the same apartment, the same women.
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.
Watch Now. Dead Ringers (1988) R 09/23/1988 (US) Thriller , Horror 1h 55m. User. Score. What's your Vibe ? Play Trailer. Two bodies. Two minds. One soul. 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.
Oct 12, 1998 · Dead Ringers is a definitively melancholic meditation on our very existence—on the sadness of what Cronenberg has termed “unrequited life.” If the movie seems tantalizingly, even dangerously, personal, it is because it delivers its maker’s sensibility and aesthetic so directly and artfully.
