Dead Ringers is Jeremy Irons film all the way. He plays two identical twin brothers running a clinic in Toronto. Beverly Mantle is the shy, studious, hard-working one. Eliot is the more extrovert and immoral one but a far better communicator. The brothers share the same profession, flat and women (without the women's knowledge).
Eliot loosens the women up and beds them first, then gives them to his less assertive 'baby brother'. Nice arrangement but it begins to unwind when Beverly falls in love with Genevieve Bujold, a successful actress.
The film is based 'very loosely' on actual twins found dead in their flat from an overdose of barbiturates.
This is an intelligent, disturbing film with a tour de force performance by Irons as the two twins. There are several memorable scenes, but this is not an easy film to watch, its not commercial and it certainly does not belong in the horror section of Blockbuster.
Eliot loosens the women up and beds them first, then gives them to his less assertive 'baby brother'. Nice arrangement but it begins to unwind when Beverly falls in love with Genevieve Bujold, a successful actress.
The film is based 'very loosely' on actual twins found dead in their flat from an overdose of barbiturates.
This is an intelligent, disturbing film with a tour de force performance by Irons as the two twins. There are several memorable scenes, but this is not an easy film to watch, its not commercial and it certainly does not belong in the horror section of Blockbuster.