Dead Ringers (1988)
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 6
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Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 3
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Two twin brothers, both renowned gynecologists, descend into madness after becoming romantically involved with the same woman in this disturbing, horrific drama. Jeremy Irons delivers a bravura performance as both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, Toronto-based surgeons who operate an exclusive gynecological clinic and share a reputation as brilliant innovators. They also share lovers, as the more aggressive, confident Elliott seduces women and later secretly allows the shier, more intellectual Beverly
Sep 23, 1988 Wide
Jan 27, 1998
Media Home Entertainment
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Cast
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Jeremy Irons
Beverly Mantle, Elliot ... -
Geneviève Bujold
Claire Niveau -
Heidi von Palleske
Cary -
Barbara Gordon
Danuta -
Shirley Douglas
Laura -
Stephen Lack
Andrers Wolleck -
Denis Akiyama
Pharmacist -
Damir Andrei
Birchall -
Lynne Cormack
Arlene -
Warren Davis
Anatomy Class Superviso... -
Richard W. Farrell
Dean of Medicine -
Jonathan Haley
Beverly Age 9 -
Nicholas Haley
Elliot Age 9 -
Jill Hennessy
Escort Twin Mimsy -
Joe Matheson
Sean -
Dee McCafferty
Surgeon -
Marsha Moreau
Raffaella -
Miriam Newhouse
Mrs. Bookman -
Nick Nichols
Leo -
Rina Polley
Soap Opera Character -
Nick Rice
MC -
Hadley Kay
Delivery Boy -
Madeleine Atkinson
Soap Opera Character -
Bob Bainborough
Mr. Glaser -
John Bayliss
Performance Double -
Murray Chuchley
Assisting Surgeon -
Nora Colpman
Mrs. Randall -
Cynthia Eastman
Sobbing Woman -
Graham Evans
Picture Double -
Jacqueline Hennessy
Escort Twin Coral -
Jane Luk
Lecture Hall Nurse -
Susan Markle
Operating Room Nurse -
Denise McLeod
Art Gallery Lady -
Nicholas Rice
M.C. -
Liliane Stillwell
Wardrobe Person -
Tita Trevisan
Furniture Salesman -
David Walden
Director -
David Hughes
Superintendent
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (29) | Rotten (6) | DVD (10)
Director David Cronenberg handles his usual fondness for gore in muted style.
People like myself who find the character played by [Genevieve] Bujold (in one of her best performances) more interesting than either of the twins are bound to feel rather frustrated by the end.
An intense psychological drama which confronts [Cronenberg's] familiar preoccupations -- fear of physical and mental disintegration, mortality, the power struggle between the sexes -- without the paradoxical protection of visceral disgust.
Cronenberg, who has begun to emerge as a master of body-related horrific fantasy, clearly understands that a small amount of medical mischief can be more unnerving than conventional grisliness.
Really sordid stuff that becomes ridiculous, painful, unbelievable and tedious.
The kind of movie where you ask people how they liked it, and they say, 'Well, it was well made,' and then they wince.
This is arguably David Cronenberg's masterpiece.
Irons gives a highly accomplished performance in a chilly knife-swapping psychodrama that remains among the director's leanest, meanest releases.
Impeccably executed, Cronenberg's first masterpiece is an unsettling film in which biological horror is entirely conveyed through pyschological exploration of character, masterfully played by Jeremy Irons in the best performance of his career.
It's one of Cronenberg's more complex relationship tales, that puts a deadly spin on separation, loss and hopeless love.
Cronenberg and Irons achieve perfection in horror.
Irons is startlingly off-kilter, his performance a veritable textbook example of deranged if icy brilliance
Dead Ringers is not a fun or particularly upbeat film, but it does grab you by the collar and it sucks you right into the screen.
One of Cronenberg's creepiest. And Irons is freaking amazing.
Trite, weird, ridiculous, uneventful, sick. Cronenberg at his worst.
Cronenberg's most perverse and disconcerting film.
Extremely unsettling, at times amusing, cold yet personal, Dead Ringers gradually and deliberately comes to horrify the viewer, rather than shocking outright with such spectacular displays of gore.
A terrifying performance courtesy of Jeremy Irons
Cronenberg, with Dead Ringers, becomes the director that Roman Polanski could have been.
Audience Reviews for Dead Ringers
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- Elliot Mantle: I've often thought there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies. You know, best spleen, most perfectly developed kidneys. Why don't we have standards of beauty for the entire human body, inside and out?
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Foreign Titles
- Die Unzertrennlichen (DE)
- Faux Semblants (FR)


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