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After recovering his sobriety, he is concerned about his brother, and goes back to the clinic. There he finds the clinic in a shambles and Elliot despondent and intoxicated.

Their positions are reversed as Beverly cares for Elliot. Drugged and despairing, they celebrate their mock birthday and Elliot volunteers to be killed, "to separate the Siamese twins". Beverly disembowels Elliot on an examination couch with the same claw-like instrument of Wolleck's that he had used to assault his patient in the operating room. Shortly after, Beverly pulls himself together, leaves the clinic and calls Claire on a payphone.

Dead Ringers

When she asks, "Who is this? In his DVD commentary , Irons claims that Robert De Niro declined playing the Mantles due to his unease with the subject matter and portraying gynecologists, while William Hurt decided to reject the parts because "it is hard enough to play one role".

Irons was given two different dressing rooms with two sets of costumes for playing his two characters. However, given the fact that he said "the whole point of the story is you should sometimes be confused as to which is which," he chose to use only one of the rooms and combine different costume items intended for different characters.

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Drugged and despairing, they celebrate their mock birthday and Elliot volunteers to be killed, "to separate the Siamese twins". Hadley Kay as Delivery Boy. December 8, Full Review…. Shortly after, Beverly pulls himself together, leaves the clinic and calls Claire on a payphone. So close that they have studied the same profession, work together as gynecologists and literally share everything including lovers between them. On episodes Bill Dare was credited as the programmes deviser. You read right--Irons essays the dual role of identical twin doctors, who frequently sub for each another professionally.

Irons also developed an "internal way" to portray each character, employing the Alexander technique for "different energy points," giving each character his own appearance. Roger Ebert gave the film two and a half stars, writing "it's like a collaboration between med school and a supermarket tabloid", and said it was challenging but interesting for his female friends to view. Ebert also credited Irons for making each twin unique. It's really sordid stuff that becomes ridiculous, painful, unbelievable and tedious". In , the Toronto International Film Festival Group compiled a Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list, with festival director Piers Handling writing a lack of Cronenberg films was significant, and that Dead Ringers and Videodrome divided voters, causing neither to win a place on the list.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dead Ringers theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved November 9, One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema.

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A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him. The Dead Zone A man awakens from a coma to discover he has a psychic ability. Edit Cast Cast overview, first billed only: Claire Niveau Heidi von Palleske Anders Wolleck Nick Nichols Anatomy Class Supervisor Jonathan Haley Beverly, Age 9 Nicholas Haley Edit Storyline The Mantle brothers are both doctors - both gynecologists - and identical twins. Edit Did You Know? Goofs In a scene dated , the twins seen are playing with The Visible Woman, Revell toy company's biological model of a woman that was not marketed until at least five years later.

Quotes [ first lines ] Elliot, Age 9: You've heard about sex Well I've discovered why sex is. It's because humans don't live under water. I don't get it. Well, fish don't need sex because they just lay the eggs and fertilize them in the water. Humans can't do that because they don't live in the water. They have to - internalize the water. Therefore we have sex. So you mean humans would have sex if they lived in the water? Well they'd have a kind of sex. The kind where you wouldn't Copyrighted by Llee Corp. Add the first question.

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